"This is what solidarity looks like" on the South Side

Dominican University alumnus Berto Aguayo co-founded the nonprofit Increase the Peace shortly after graduating. A skilled community organizer, he has launched a number of initiatives to build Black and Brown unity, including a peaceful protest in Little Village and a food pantry in the Back of the Yards neighborhood in which he grew up. He also helped keep the peace following protests and vandalism triggered by the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

You can read an article in the Chicago Sun-Times about Berto's work