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Voices 12

Mission:

Founded in 1995, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis) provides comprehensive, holistic and long-term support services to youth who range in age from eight to twenty-two. Bro/Sis offers wrap around evidence-based programming. The organization focuses on issues such as leadership development and educational achievement, sexual responsibility, sexism and misogyny, political education and social justice, Pan-African and Latino history, and global awareness. Bro/Sis provides four-six year rites of passage programming, thorough five day a week after school care, school and home counseling, summer camps, job training and employment, college preparation, community organizing training, and international study programs to Africa and Latin America.

We are locally based, with a national reach, as Bro/Sis publishes assorted curricula and collections of our members’ writings; trains educators from throughout the nation on our approach; and our leadership is invited to speak and present at educational and policy convenings and conferences across the country.

Our theory of change is to provide multi-layered support, guidance, education and love to our membership, to teach them to have self-discipline and form order in their lives, and then to offer opportunities and access so that they may develop agency.

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The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis) held its VOICES 12 annual benefit on Thursday May 12, 2016 at Gotham Hall at 1356 Broadway at 36th Street. It was a wonderful celebratory evening. To see images from the event click here.

VOICES is our signature annual benefit highlighting our youth, their commentary on the world and our life changing programming. The event provides an opportunity for our supporters to celebrate Bro/Sis’ commitment to guiding our members to develop into critical thinkers and community leaders.

This special evening featured an awards reception, a silent auction, and words & performances by our youth members and alumni.

To view photos of past Voices Gala event click here

Honorees

Damien DwinManaging Partner & Co-Founder, Brightwood Capital

Sherrilyn IfillPresident & Director Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Host

Maurice DuBoisAnchor, CBS

Event Co-Chairs

Rahsan-Rahsan LindsayCo-Chair, Board of Directors, Bro/Sis

Clara MarkowiczCo-Chair, Board of Directors, Bro/Sis

Fundraising Chair

Michael J. O’Brien*

Fundraising Vice Chairs

Ravi Mallik
David M. Milch
Tiffany R. Warren*

Coordinating Committee

Paul Butler*
B. Alan Echtenkamp*
Ross Haime*
Khary Lazarre-White

Benefit Committee

Linda Barnett
Ernest Boyd
Heather Corbett
Rabbi Rachel Cowan*
Honorable David N. Dinkins
Rebecca Fine
Florence Frucher
Peter Gourdine
Stephen C. Graham*
Marcy Grau
Farah Griffin*
David & Joan Grubin
Karen Heimann
Michelle Johnson
Carol Joseph
Boris Kodjoe
James Krauskopf*
Rashida La Lande*
Jane Lazarre*
Jon Moscow*
Pedro A. Noguera*
Constance Oehmler
Michelle Ores*
Elizabeth Phillips*
Detavio Samuels
Catherine Shimony*
Mark Smith
Andrietta Sims*
Susan L. Taylor
Yokasta Tineo*
Reverend John Vaughn*
Miguel Vias
Nina M. Wells
Theodore V. Wells
Douglas H. White*
Gwynne A. Wilcox*
Carine Williams

* Bro/Sis Board of Directors Member