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Showing posts with label panel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label panel. Show all posts
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Join us for Equal Means Equal in NYC
Friday, September 30, 2016
10/5/16 Brown Changemakers: Spotlight on Education with The Brotherhood/Sister Sol - Khary Lazarre-White, Esq. & Friends
Brown Changemakers: Spotlight on Education
Dana Edell, Ph.D, Executive Director, SPARK Movement (’98): At SPARK Movement, an intergenerational girls’ activist organization, Dana collaborates with girls to launch successful action campaigns including a media campaign that led to Seventeen Magazine’s public promise to never Photoshop girl models and to commit to race and body size diversity in their pages. She trains and supports girls (ages 13-22) to take action, produce theater, create videos and write blogs. Dana was co-chair of the Girls’ Participation Task Force at the United Nations and she teaches Theatre and Activism at New York University and the City University of New York.
Khary Lazarre-White, Executive Director & Co-Founder, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (’95): Khary is a social entrepreneur, educator, non-profit executive, writer and attorney. In 1995 he co-founded The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, a nationally renowned, comprehensive youth development and educational organization that provides rites of passage programming, after school care, counseling, summer camps, job training, college preparation and scholarships, employment opportunities, community organizing training, legal representation, and month long international study programs to Africa and Latin America. Khary has extensive experience as a public speaker across the country, writes regular opinion pieces for The Huffington Post, and essays for publications that have included NYU Press, Nation Books, and MSNBC.com.
Carlos Lejnieks, CEO, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Essex, Hudson, & Union Counties (’00): Lejnieks took over an atrophied Big Brothers Big Sisters agency in 2008 and, within four years, went from serving approximately 100 youth to serving well over 1,100. Under his leadership, BBBS has received numerous awards from local, state and national entities, including a formal recognition by President Obama. Lejnieks has served on President Barack Obama’s Regional Finance Committee, Governor Chris Christie’s Education Transition Team and Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s Transition Team. In 2016, he was the NY Yankees “Civic Leader Spotlight”.
Don't miss this extraordinary panel of Brown alumni, all distinguished in the field of nonprofits and education, who'll talk about their work and how they are fundamentally changing education for youth and families everywhere.
The Brown Club in NYC is excited to invite you to an alumni panel focusing on the intersection of education, nonprofits, and community development. Panelists will share their experiences and provide insight into the strategies their organizations employ to close the education gap in NYC and beyond. Guests will then have the opportunity to pose questions to the panelists about their careers and doing well by doing good.
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
6:30 – 7:00 PM Reception with light snacks and refreshments
7:00 – 8:15 PM Panel
8:15 – 8:30 PM Q&A
6:30 – 7:00 PM Reception with light snacks and refreshments
7:00 – 8:15 PM Panel
8:15 – 8:30 PM Q&A
UJA-Federation of New York
130 East 59th Street (btw Lexington & Park Ave)
Floor 6
New York City
130 East 59th Street (btw Lexington & Park Ave)
Floor 6
New York City
Tickets: $20 Click here to purchase
Meet our panelists!
Dana Edell, Ph.D, Executive Director, SPARK Movement (’98): At SPARK Movement, an intergenerational girls’ activist organization, Dana collaborates with girls to launch successful action campaigns including a media campaign that led to Seventeen Magazine’s public promise to never Photoshop girl models and to commit to race and body size diversity in their pages. She trains and supports girls (ages 13-22) to take action, produce theater, create videos and write blogs. Dana was co-chair of the Girls’ Participation Task Force at the United Nations and she teaches Theatre and Activism at New York University and the City University of New York.
Amy Kantrowitz, COO, Free Arts NYC (MA’92): Amy has two decades of nonprofit experience and currently serves as COO of Free Arts NYC, an arts education nonprofit that provides underserved children with a unique combination of educational arts and mentoring programs. Amy has worked with some of NYC’s leading education and youth development organizations, including New Visions for Public Schools, and The After-School Corporation - this path emerged directly from her Brown MAT, work with Professor Ted Sizer at the Coalition of Essential Schools, and VISTA year at the Swearer Center for Public Service.
Josh Landay, Director, Eye to Eye Diplomats (’02): Josh is a professional actor, teaching artist, and non-profit program director. He serves as Director of the speakers bureau of Eye to Eye, a national nonprofit organization for students with learning disabilities. Since launching the Diplomats program in 2011, Mr. Landay has developed and coordinated over 250 public engagement presentations, including events at the White House and the U.S. Department of Education. He has also performed in Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway as well as in the West End, Las Vegas, and the first national tour.
Khary Lazarre-White, Executive Director & Co-Founder, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (’95): Khary is a social entrepreneur, educator, non-profit executive, writer and attorney. In 1995 he co-founded The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, a nationally renowned, comprehensive youth development and educational organization that provides rites of passage programming, after school care, counseling, summer camps, job training, college preparation and scholarships, employment opportunities, community organizing training, legal representation, and month long international study programs to Africa and Latin America. Khary has extensive experience as a public speaker across the country, writes regular opinion pieces for The Huffington Post, and essays for publications that have included NYU Press, Nation Books, and MSNBC.com.
Carlos Lejnieks, CEO, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Essex, Hudson, & Union Counties (’00): Lejnieks took over an atrophied Big Brothers Big Sisters agency in 2008 and, within four years, went from serving approximately 100 youth to serving well over 1,100. Under his leadership, BBBS has received numerous awards from local, state and national entities, including a formal recognition by President Obama. Lejnieks has served on President Barack Obama’s Regional Finance Committee, Governor Chris Christie’s Education Transition Team and Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s Transition Team. In 2016, he was the NY Yankees “Civic Leader Spotlight”.
Shalinee Sharma, Executive Director & Board Member, Zearn (’98): Zearn Math was created to fix math education for all kids. It offers an internationally-normed, rigorous curriculum that combines personalized digital lessons with daily targeted small group instruction so that every teacher can reach every student, every day.
Don't miss this extraordinary panel of Brown alumni, all distinguished in the field of nonprofits and education, who'll talk about their work and how they are fundamentally changing education for youth and families everywhere.
The Brown Club in NYC is excited to invite you to an alumni panel focusing on the intersection of education, nonprofits, and community development. Panelists will share their experiences and provide insight into the strategies their organizations employ to close the education gap in NYC and beyond. Guests will then have the opportunity to pose questions to the panelists about their careers and doing well by doing good.
Source: Brown Club of New York
Source: Brown Club of New York
Monday, July 11, 2016
Black Photographers of NYC- A Panel & Reception Wednesday July 13
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
612 SCHERMERHORN HALL
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY(MORNINGSIDE CAMPUS)
Black Photographers of New York
A panel and reception with Kamoinge Photographers Danny Dawson, Russell Frederick and Ming Smith
Moderated by Grace Aneiza Ali
Image by Russell Frederick
Kamoinge, a pioneering photographic collective, was formed in New York in over 50 years ago to address the under-representation of black photographers in the art world. Kamoinge’s body of work spans the past 50 and included numerous images of daily life in black America in New York City during the last half of the twentieth century.
This panel is part of Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) 2016 Summer Teachers and Scholars Institute (STSI), entitled “The Many Worlds of Black New York.” This portion of the STSI is free and open to the public. To learn more about the STIS please visit columbiastsi.com or emailstsi@columbia.edu .
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
11/17/15 Awakening Our Democracy: Policing Bodies, Borders, and Rights at Columbia University, School of Law
Join November 17, 2015 at Columbia Law School to see #BlackLivesMatter's DeRay Mckesson, Barbara Arnwine, Kimberle Crenshaw and More on the Future of Our Democracy! RSVP - bit.ly/
FEATURING:
Barbara Arnwine (@barbs73), Transformative Justice Coalition
Dara Baldwin (@NJDC07), Public Policy Analyst, National Disability Rights Network
DeRay Mckesson (@deray), We The Protesters
James Forman Jr. (@JFormanJr), Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Samuel Rubin, Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Nicole Lee (@nicoleclee), Co-founder, Black Movement Law Project
Baher Azmy, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University; Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
Barbara Arnwine (@barbs73), Transformative Justice Coalition
Dara Baldwin (@NJDC07), Public Policy Analyst, National Disability Rights Network
DeRay Mckesson (@deray), We The Protesters
James Forman Jr. (@JFormanJr), Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Samuel Rubin, Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Nicole Lee (@nicoleclee), Co-founder, Black Movement Law Project
Baher Azmy, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University; Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
MODERATED BY:
Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks), Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks), Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
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Friday, March 13, 2015
Join Brotherhood SisterSol & New York University at our Educational Panel
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Friday, February 6, 2015
National Diversity Summit, March 6-8, 2015 at Brown University
The Scholarship of Diversity and Inclusion in the Academy: Lessons Learned and the Work Ahead for Universities in the 21st Century
As we approach the end of the Brown 250+ Celebration, please join us on campus for the Brown 250+ Diversity Summit. At this special convening of students, faculty, staff, alumni, thought leaders and innovators, we will explore how higher education engages in the work of developing and sustaining an increasingly diverse and inclusive academic community. Through plenary panel discussions, workshops, interactive seminars, and networking activities, we will engage in critical discussions that consider the broad range of identities, perspectives and experiences (race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class, etc.) represented in higher education institutions today, and how relevant research and scholarship informs the work of advancing diversity and inclusion in the academy.
For further information, please contact institutional_diversity@brown.edu or (401) 863-2216
Thursday, February 5, 2015
2/20/15 Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership presents Black History Month 2015
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AFFILIATE EVENT: Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership presents Black History Month 2015
Take an insightful look at women artists of the black Brooklyn renaissance of the 1980s and 1990s, as profiled in Brooklyn Boheme, the recent HBO documentary by Nelson George. Writer Lisa Jones and writer/composer/performer Alva Rogers discuss the black women’s Fort Greene arts collective Rodeo Caldonia in a conversation facilitated by cultural critic Greg Tate.
Alva Rogers is a Brown alumna, MFA '98, and a member of the Executive Board of The Brown Club in NY.
For more information, visit http://www.myrtleavenue.org/event/remembering-rodeo-caldonia-lisa-jones-alva-rogers-conversation-culture-critic-greg-tate/
Date: Friday, February 20, 2015
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Venue: Pillow Cafe-Lounge 505 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn
For more information, visit http://www.myrtleavenue.org/event/remembering-rodeo-caldonia-lisa-jones-alva-rogers-conversation-culture-critic-greg-tate/
Date: Friday, February 20, 2015
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Venue: Pillow Cafe-Lounge 505 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
2/24/15 "Broken Windows, Broken Schools: A Panel on Education Justice" at Columbia University
2/24 "BROKEN WINDOWS, BROKEN SCHOOLS: A PANEL ON EDUCATION AND JUSTICE" @IRAASColumbiaU https://t.co/KGZyIoOyAC pic.twitter.com/mp9pdCBqpC
— IRAAS Alumni Council (@IRAASalumni) February 4, 2015
Many times schools are looked at as a solution to an inequal society. This panel brings together a range of experts on the connections between schools and communities to highlight what policies and practices be undertaken to make both more just.
February 24, 2015
6:00pm- 8:00pm
3rd Floor Lecture Hall-
Columbia School of Journalism
Free & Open To the Public
**PANELISTS **
- Zakiyah Ansari, Advocacy Director, Alliance for Quality Education
- R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy - Associate Professor of Sociology, City College of New York
- Carla Shedd - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
- Jose, Luis Vilson - NYC Public School Teacher and Author
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Source: Columbia University, Institute for Research in African American Studies
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Thursday March 26, 2015 - “More Than a Protest Novel” Panel in Harlem
HOLD THE DATE FOR OUR UPCOMING EVENT, “More Than a Protest Novel,” a thought-provoking anti-violence panel that will take place on Thursday, 3/26 at 8:00 p.m. at Land Yoga, in Harlem.
From moderator, Rev. Alfonso Wyatt, to featured panelists, the event will showcase some of New York City’s top minds when it comes to effectively addressing gun violence—and doing so in a “novel” way. The framework for the panel is the first book in Petra Lewis' trilogy, The Sons and Daughters of Ham, Book I: A Requiem, which examines a family in the aftermath of violence.
Panelists include:
• A.T. Mitchell, founder of Man Up! in East New York, Brooklyn
• Iesha Sekou, founder of Street Corner Resources, Harlem
• Allen James, program manager, S.O.S. (Save Our Streets) Crown Heights, Crown Heights Community Mediation Center, Brooklyn
• Kathleen Horan, WNYC public radio reporter who, among other things, did the series “In Harm’s Way, ” which—in 2013—memorialized the individual lives of New York City' kids killed by gunfire
The evening will take a look at personal experiences with violence, the current anti-violence space, real stats on homicide rates, and policy initiatives and new/innovative solutions to address the violence (including prayer)—as well as how some of this ties in to the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases and their outcomes, which ignited protests globally. Reception to follow. HOLD THE DATE—you don’t want to miss this one! More details to come
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