Doran Schrantz is the Executive Director of ISAIAH, a faith-based community organization of 100 member congregations in the Twin Cities metropolitan region, St. Cloud, and Rochester in Minnesota. Ms. Schrantz has been at the center of ISAIAH’s development from a small, more locally focused organization of 64 member institutions, to an organization considered one of the most powerful voices in the state around issues of racial and economic justice. In the past 5 years, ISAIAH has explored the intersection of community organizing, policy, and research and has launched powerful partnerships with national research and policy leaders such as PolicyLink and Professor john powell of the Kirwan Institute.