Lenny Brody has been politically active since the early 1960s. During the mid-1960s he was a volunteer in South Carolina with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights organization led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As part of his activities in protest of the Vietnam War he refused induction into the Army. He has been an active community organizer in poor neighborhoods for decades. Lenny is currently involved in local Chicago electoral politics and is also organizing with the Illinois section of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. He has studied economics and theories of political change while continuing his political activism and believes the United States is in desperate need of fundamental economic, political and social transformation. Lenny worked as a typesetter in the printing industry and is now retired.