Meir Lakein, JOIN for Justice's Director of Organizing, has worked as a professional community organizer for 30 years, helping develop the model for engaging Jewish communities in broad based organizing, and serving as the mentor of a generation of young organizers and rabbis. Prior to coming to JOIN, Meir served as the lead organizer of the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council and the Brockton Interfaith Community and organized public housing tenants in Israel and homeless people in Connecticut.