John P. “Jody” Kretzmann was an educator and researcher at Northwestern University who challenged community organizers to achieve social change by considering a neighborhood’s assets rather than what it lacked.
“He was an excellent trainer, researcher and organizer, and he became internationally known because of his shift in neighborhood focus from deficits to capacities,” said John L. McKnight, a longtime collaborator. “He and I demonstrated that neighborhoods are filled with resources rather than with deficits alone.”John P."Jody" Kretzmann. Kretzmann traveled around the world introducing the concepts of asset-based community development.
In the late 1960s, Kretzmann lived in Oakland, California, where he resisted the draft during the Vietnam War and organized others taking similar action. Among the ACM Urban Studies Program’s instructors were journalist Salim Muwakkil and political activist Katy Hogan, who co-founded the now-shuttered“Jody was a great intellect, combined with pretty much unadulterated love for the people. That was a rare combination, and he put his talents to work in a good way,” Hogan said.
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