Stephen Bradberry is the National Campaign Coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. ACORN has been active in communities of color for more than 30 years. Bradberry has served in low and moderate-income neighborhoods in Louisiana for more than a decade. Under his guidance the Louisiana chapter of ACORN, grew to more than 10,000 member families and working  primarily in the areas of Living Wages, Environmental Justice and Voting rights. At ACORN, Bradberry has worked extensively on issues of environmental and financial justice. He directed a staff of community organizers who go door to door throughout the state of Louisiana to mobilize residents to work for social change.  Under his direction, the organization ran an 18 month campaign to turn the City of New Orleans planning process 180 degrees from turning the lower ninth ward into wetlands to being a pilot neighborhood for the rebuilding process.
 
Bradberry also serves as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Environmental Justice Project (LEJP).  Under his direction LEJP pulled together the efforts of Louisiana's State Health Dept, the city of New Orleans Health Dept., the Mayor's Office of Environmental Affairs, Tulane's School of Public Health, Xavier University's Toxicology Dept., Hibernia Bank, and others into the Louisiana Environmental Roundtable.  The Roundtable's collaborative efforts have led to a  city ordinance prohibiting the dry-sanding of lead-based paint, made significant changes to New Orleans Consolidated Plan that helped the city receive over 5million dollars in HUD grants for lead poisoning prevention, trained community residents to sample over 250 homes for lead dust hazards in New Orleans' low- and moderate-income families, as well as devise new loan products for low-income families with poor credit to remediate lead hazards in their homes.
 
In addition, Bradberry currently runs ACORN'S most successful training academy, as well as mentoring other head organizers of color.
 
In November of 2005 Stephen Bradberry became the first American individual to receive the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.
 
Currently Bradberry is building coalitions around the issues of Gulf Coast Restoration, Immigration, Anti-Poverty, Health Care and others.