In this Yale interview from Creating Change through Social Entrepreneurship, Adrienne Abbate, Executive Director of the Staten Island Partnership for Community Wellness, discusses the role of communication and community engagement in building lasting social impact. She shares practical insights from her work coordinating public health and wellness initiatives across a borough-wide partnership, describing how trust with residents and local organizations is earned and maintained over time. Abbate speaks to the operational realities of running a coalition-based nonprofit, including coordinating multiple stakeholders toward shared goals. The conversation gives students a grounded, practitioner-level view of community engagement that complements the course's theoretical frameworks, illustrating how sustained relationship management underpins effective social entrepreneurship at the neighborhood and city level.