^ December 2023 11th Annual Membership Assembly
Put People First! PA gives voice to everyday people who are struggling to meet our basic needs.
Written for the group to shape mission in the early days:
We define our basic needs as things we need to live healthy and fulfilling lives — things like education, housing, health care, jobs at living wages, food, and a healthy environment. We’re a membership organization made up mostly of people who know from our life experience that poor and working people need to unite and have a voice. No one else is going to do it for us. We’re building, county by county, all across Pennsylvania. We’re urban and rural. We’re multiracial. We’re politically independent. Until we unite, we don’t have the power to change things.
^ Community voice captured in copywriting by Meg De Brito in 2013
Created the early logo:
This logo was created to ensure that people could own it, redraw it, remodel it as needed for events they go to, banners they make or they way they exemplify it using their body.
I made this design so that it felt as though it was of the people, hand drawn and simple.
Over the years it had been a joy to see the many ways that it has been recreated with purpose, yet still connected to the original.
^ Community voice captured in logo by Meg De Brito in 2013