The Clara Lemlich Awards for Social Activism Clara Lemlich I've Got Something to Say

2011 Honoree

Wendy Rodriguez

parishioner activist

Wendy Rodriguez

Wendy Rodriguez is a longtime resident of the Fordham-Tremont community and has served as a member of Bronx Community Board #6 for over twenty-two years. She is a co-founder and initiator of the board’s “Not In My Neighborhood, You Don’t” drug prevention campaign. At St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church she is a Eucharistic minister and lector, and she is a hospital trustee and community advisory board member of St. Barnabas Hospital. Beginning in 1971 she worked with the New York City Department of Education in the Bronx, providing small-group instruction and individualized attention to teach skills specific to children’s needs.