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Fall Discussion Series Begins Tomorrow!
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Please join us tomorrow for the inaugural event in our fall discussion series, which will be not just informative and thought-provoking but also a chance to meet the key leaders and decision-makers at CCI.
CCI is on the move as we kick off our fall evening discussion series October 2, 2014, at the Irish International Immigrant Center. We hope you come out to join us for an evening of lively discussion as we grapple with the state of race relations in our country, looking back through the years and pondering our future.
50 Years of Reflections from the Civil Rights Act to Ferguson, Missouri
Join us for a panel discussion with CCI's board of directors, reflecting on 50 years of movement work as board members share their own insights, observations, experiences, and efforts over those decades. We will ponder where we are as a nation when it comes to matters of race and where we need to go. This panel kicks off our fall series and is also for gathering and reconnecting with CCI staff, board and friends (old and new).
Our Panelists are:
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Antonieta Gimeno
Antonieta has worked for more than three decades as community organizer and educator addressing racial, gender/sexuality, and class disparities as human rights issues. She supports the leadership of low-income women and girls, people of color, LGBT, youth, and immigrants in their efforts to achieve justice. As an educator and organizer she believes in the power of art and writing as tools for radical social change and healing. She uses the Theatre of the Oppressed techniques and currently facilitates theater workshops for survivors of sexual assault and immigrant women, creating performances based on their stories. Among other things, Antonieta is a member of the Network of Immigrants and African Americans in Solidarity (NIAAS) and a board member of CCI.
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Meck Groot
Meck has been working for racial justice in various ways for nearly 30 years. She spent many years as co-director of the Women's Theological Center, which developed a spiritual leadership model for supporting transformation internally, interpersonally, institutionally, and culturally. She has been on the CCI board for about five years and is a Drylongso Award recipient. She currently serves as operations director and justice ministries lead for the New England Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
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Chris Messinger
 Chris is executive director of Boston Mobilization, a community-based organization that has worked against what Dr. Martin Luther King called "the Triple Evils" (racism, materialism, militarism) for more than 30 years. Currently the home of the Sub/Urban Justice Program, Boston Mobilization works primarily with teens and young adults to support community organizing, social justice education, and regional anti-oppression networking. Chris has been on the CCI board since 2006. |
Ernestine Washington
 A native of Boston and a recently appointed CCI board member (as well as a former CCI staff member), Ernestine has a long history of working for social change and justice. She holds a master's degree in intercultural relations with a focus on deaf culture from Lesley University. Ernestine has worked many campaigns on behalf of CCI such as healthcare reform, CORI reform, and affirmative action. A product of the early 60's, Ernestine has always participated in civil rights activities even during her tenure in the travel industry, retiring when her son became a teenager in 1992. Since then she has been an advocate, supporter, and volunteer with DEAF Inc. located in Brighton MA. Some of her other work includes contributing time to Project Aftershock to work with veterans and their families and serving as an advance attitudinal trainer for STRIVE Inc. |
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Where & When:
Thursday, October 2, 2014
6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Irish International
Immigrant Center
100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA
This discussion will be facilitated by CCI's executive director,
Shay Stewart-Bouley, and is an excellent opportunity to connect with CCI
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Community Change Inc.
14 Beacon Street, Suite 605
(617) 523-0555
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