Frank Morales

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Frank Morales is an Episcopal priest and activist in New York City.

Morales was born in 1949 and grew up in the Jacob Riis Houses on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.^[1] His father was Puerto Rican and his mother Peruvian. He first became involved in politics after the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King as a member of the Assassination Information Committee.^[1]

Morales became an assistant pastor in 1978.^[1] In the Bronx he worked with squatters. In one interview he recalled, “I used to walk out of services with a crowbar and we’d open up abandoned buildings…”^[1] He now volunteers at St Mark's Church in-the-Bowery.^[2]

In 2003, he founded the Campaign to Demilitarize the Police in NYC.^[1]