Good morning on this chancy Tuesday.

Mary Sansone is a loud voice in New York City. And that’s saying a lot. She’s 101.

The Brooklyn resident, who was born in 1916 in what is now Cobble Hill, has been a community activist since she was 12.

“My life has always been organizing,” she said, “and I’m not afraid to tell people how I feel.”

As a child, she and her father would join rallies in Union Square to support unions. After high school, she worked in a Manhattan sweatshop to better understand the working conditions and help laborers organize protests and go on strike. She volunteered with the Red Cross during World War II, among other social service work.

When Ms. Sansone’s son died at the age of 31, she started a foundation to encourage other young New Yorkers to find voice and purpose within their communities, just as he had.