Randall Keesler is the Chair for the Social justice ministry at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church which is located in Ward 6 on New York Ave. He participated in WIN’s successful campaign to rebuild Temple Courts public housing project and in the campaign to ensure affordable housing would be central to the redevelopment of Reservation 13 next to RFK Stadium. He was born in Paterson NJ, attended Ithaca College and a year at General Theological Seminary in New York City. Randall left seminary in 1974 to join Cesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers of America and their national boycott of Grapes and Lettuce. He moved to the District of Columbia in 1976 and helped to found and develop the Kenesaw Phoenix housing Cooperative in Mt Pleasant, the first housing cooperative to utilize DC’s Topa Law which gives tenants the first right to purchase their buildings when an owner wants to sell. He is currently the President of the Cooperative. He has worked as a community organizer and director of a local organizing group in Charles County Md., as an organizer in Baltimore with the Industrial Areas Foundation, and for 30 years on the grants staff of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development making grants to grassroots community organizing and economic development groups throughout the northeast and southeastern regions of the United States until his retirement in the fall of 2023. He is married to Celeste Valente and has two grown children both social workers.