Mark Toney

Overview

Mark Toney has a 20 year track record of developing leaders building organizations and creating social change campaigns. Before becoming the Executive Director of TURN Mark ran a successful nonprofit consulting business. Mark has served as the Executive Director of the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) in Oakland and also worked as Senior Research Associate for the Applied Research Center. Previously he founded Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE) in Providence Rhode Island working on such issues as benefits for home daycare providers parent involvement in bilingual education and preventing utility shut offs in the winter for low income families. While in Providence Mark also worked for welfare rights. He received his BA from Brown University and holds a Doctorate in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Kellogg National Leadership Fellow and his leadership accomplishments have been featured in Mother Jones Magazine and Brown Alumni Monthly.