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| I was pleased to join activists Professor Benjamin Shepard and James Tracy for a panel entitled Community Migration Displacement on November 20, 2014 at CityTech. This was actually the first time I presented any portion of my book Staging Migrations to an audience at my home college CityTech - CUNY. |
James Tracy listens as I take a question from the audience. I talked about Ida B. Wells quite a bit this night. Rhodessa Jones was also central to my remarks. Tracy, who is a San Francisco-based activist knows Rhodessa's work . . . . I'm not surprised.
James Tracy (left) Benjamin Shepard (middle) and I pose with CityTech students following the event. Visit Professor Shepard's blog for details about his work.
On Monday, December 1, 2014, the Dean's Office and the Black Women's Networking Committee at CityTech hosted my solo book event for Staging Migrations.
Projects like this never happen in a vacuum. My husband Rudy and our daughter Grace joined students, faculty, and staff as they listened to me read excerpts from the book and talk about my experiences over the years. You can probably see Grace among the sea of adults. Spaces like this should never seem foreign to our children!
Julia Jordan of Faculty Commons has been a wonderful champion. In the final years of the project, she managed to find a quiet room for me in the Commons. We all need time to think, don't we?
I call Barbara Burke, who is the college's Grants Officer, a grant guru. She can help you turn an idea into a fantastic plan. I have learned so much from her.Turns out she was involved in the arts education scene in DC when I was at Ellington School of the Arts. Small world!
