the wages of over 10,000 workers in the Rio Grande Valley, in addition to those in Austin and San Antonio. A study of Cortes's work with IAF in Texas, Cold Anger, was written by Mary Beth Rogers. Dozens of other books further describe his work in and beyond Texas. Cortés coordinates regional and national leadership schools that train grassroots leaders to develop community organizations based on access to political power through relationship building, and social justice initiatives. He has helped community members win water and sewage facility and other infrastructure improvements, election campaigns, and increased access to affordable housing. Honors In 1984, he was awarded a MacArthur fellowship, also known as a "genius grant." In 1996, he was the recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Houston. Besides, he received the prestigious 4th Annual Heinz Award in Public Policy in 1999 and completed fellowships at the JFK School of Government at Harvard and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Southern Methodist University, University of St. Edwards in Austin and Rutgers University in New Jersey. In 2009 he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Princeton University. In 2015, as the Princeton University Stewart Fellow in Religion, he co-taught a course on Religion and Power in Grassroots Democracy. Notes References Bystydzienski, Jill and Schacht, Steven (2001). Forging Radical Alliances Across Difference: Coalition Politics for the New Millennium. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. pp. 133–145. Carnoy, Martin (2002). Sustaining the New Economy: Work, Family and Community in the Information Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 184–86. Edwards, Bob, Foley, Michael W., Diani, Mario (2001). Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate. Freeman, Richard, Hersch, Joni, and Mishel, Lawrence (2005). Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. pp. 303–305. Greider, William (1992). Who Will Tell the People? New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. Hatch, T. (1998) How Community Action Contributes to Achievement. Education Leadership. 55 (8): 15-16. Holmesly, Sterlin. (2003) HemisFair `68 and the Transformation of San Antonio. Marquez, Benjamin (2003). Constructing Identities in Mexican-American Political Organizations. Austin, TX: UT Press. pp. 48–67. Marshall, Ray and Tucker, Mark, Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations. (1993). Perseus Books Group. P. 196. Marshall, Ray (2000) Back to Shared Prosperity: The Growing Inequality of Wealth and