Daily News | Angel L. Medina, Latino leader, social worker, and mentor to many, has died at 70
Philadelphia Prevention Partnership
“A great leader does not always think their way of doing things is always right,” she said. “He was a great leader, but he could be corrected, too.”She began working with him in 1999 as his administrative assistant at PPP. Before Woodrock, he was cofounder and clinical director of Central Payan at Concilio. It was the first bilingual and bicultural outpatient treatment center in Pennsylvania and one of the first in the nation, Pagan said.In 2006, Mr. Medina organized 20 school buses to travel from Philadelphia to Hazleton, Luzerne County, to protest the
Riding motorcycles was probably the only hobby he had here in Philadelphia, other than traveling to Puerto Rico, which he called “home,” said Mr. Medina’s wife, Minerva Medina. So with the Latino Partnership Institute and the Institute for African American Mobilization, the PPP started Saturday leadership training programs where people from the community would get training in leadership, conflict resolution, and board development.
Even with five children to take care of, Mr. Medina would often bring home other people who needed a place to stay. Sometimes they were friends or relatives, Minerva said. But one time, it was a total stranger.
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