{"id":1125,"date":"2024-11-21T19:23:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T19:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2025-01-22T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:03:32","slug":"democracy-now-panel-discussion-february-2-630-730pm-old-south-meeting-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/2024\/11\/21\/democracy-now-panel-discussion-february-2-630-730pm-old-south-meeting-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Now: Panel Discussion February 11 6:30-7:30PM Old South Meeting House"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are excited to announce the speakers for our panel discussion on Democracy in February 2025! This year’s talk is co-sponsored by Revolutionary Spaces<\/a>, who are generously providing the Old South Meeting House in downtown Boston as our location. WBUR reporter Sim\u00f3n Rios will moderate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Born in Boston\u2019s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, SIM\u00d3N RIOS<\/b>\u00a0is an award-winning bilingual reporter in WBUR’s newsroom. He graduated from Emerson College in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in writing, literature and journalism. At WBUR he covers the ways Greater Boston is changing, with an eye on demographics, immigration and inequality. He traveled to Puerto Rico several times since Hurricane Maria, bringing back stories about the bridges between the island and the more than 300,000 Boricuas who call Massachusetts home.<\/p>\n

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\"\"DAYNA CUNNINGHAM<\/b> is the Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean of Tufts University\u2019s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. Dean Cunningham has devoted her career to promoting civic participation, building community partnerships, and advocating for underrepresented communities. At Tisch College, she has articulated a bold vision for building robust, inclusive democracy for an increasingly multiracial society. Before leading Tisch College, Dean Cunningham was the founder of Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At CoLab, she built large-scale, multi-sector development collaborations that combined sustainability, wellness, and democratic control of economies in marginalized communities. A civil rights lawyer by training, Dean Cunningham worked with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, litigating cases in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, and other states in the South. She has also served as associate director at the Rockefeller Foundation and program director of the ELIAS Project at MIT. Dean Cunningham earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, a JD from New York University School of Law, and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"CHAWKY FRENN<\/b> was born in Zahl\u00e9, Lebanon. Before emigrating to the United States in 1981, he witnessed six years of civil war. Its devastating consequences have powerfully influenced his life and artwork. Frenn received a BFA from Mass College of Art and Design in Boston, MA in 1985, and an MFA from Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA in 1988. He is currently an Associate Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Frenn has exhibited his work <\/span>throughout the United States, and around the globe, and has received critical acclaim from publications including the <\/span>New York Times, NY ARTS, Art New England,<\/span><\/i> Boston Globe,<\/span><\/i> Connecticut Post, Atlanta Magazine,<\/span><\/i> and<\/span> Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/span><\/i> in the United States, as well as <\/span>An-Nahar, L\u2019Orient – Le Jour,<\/span><\/i> and<\/span> The Daily Star<\/span><\/i> in Lebanon. He was awarded two Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Awards, which enabled him to pursue his international academic and creative research in New Delhi in 2017 and Varanasi in 2024, India. Frenn is the author of two books <\/span>100 Boston Artists <\/span><\/i>and<\/span> 100 Boston Painters<\/span><\/i> published in 2013 and 2012 by Schiffer Publishing. <\/span>Art for Life\u2019s Sake<\/span><\/i>, a monograph on Frenn\u2019s work, was published by Fine Arts Consulting and Publishing in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b>\"\"SOPHIA HALL<\/b> is the Deputy Litigation Director at Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR), a non-profit legal organization founded at the request of President John F. Kennedy in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. An experienced litigator, Sophia handles a broad range of civil rights matters, with a particular focus on employment and police misconduct litigation. Sophia\u2019s legal work is regularly featured in media such as the <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/i>, the<\/span> Boston Globe<\/span><\/i>, and NPR. In addition to her litigation, Sophia also spearheads Election Protection, a non-partisan voter protection initiative that mobilizes thousands of volunteers statewide to ensure equal access to the ballot box. Sophia has been recognized as \u201cLawyer of the Year\u201d by <\/span>Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly<\/span><\/i>, a \u201cTop Lawyer\u201d by the <\/span>Boston Magazine<\/span><\/i>, and as one of Boston\u2019s Most Impactful Black Women.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/b>NOORYA HAYAT<\/b> joined the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement as a researcher in January 2016. She works on projects that help promote civic learning and engagement in the K-12 education system and beyond, and she is interested in the intersection of education, both in formal and informal settings, and civic learning and awareness in youth, particularly from marginalized and diverse ethnic backgrounds. Noorya has experience working in the U.S. and abroad in teaching and educational research. Before joining CIRCLE, Noorya worked as an international researcher and coordinator in public health and nutrition awareness in the developing world. She has experience teaching and mentoring students from diverse backgrounds and grade levels, and worked as an early childhood educator in Boston. She holds an Ed.M. in international education policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/b>ELIZABETH HANSEN SHAPIRO<\/b> is the CEO and co-founder of the National Trust for Local News, a nonprofit newspaper company dedicated to protecting and sustaining local news, by publishing sustainable community newspapers that safeguard the public trust, elevate facts, empower communities with solutions, and foster a strong sense of place. Founded in 2021, the National Trust owns and operates newspapers in Maine, Colorado, and Georgia \u2013critical sources of news that serve a population of some five million people. Prior to founding the National Trust, Dr. Hansen Shapiro was a Senior Research Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School and led news sustainability research at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are excited to announce the speakers for our panel discussion on Democracy in February 2025! This year’s talk is co-sponsored by Revolutionary Spaces, who are generously providing the Old South Meeting House in downtown Boston as our location. WBUR reporter Sim\u00f3n Rios will moderate.\u00a0 Born in Boston\u2019s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, SIM\u00d3N RIOS\u00a0is an award-winning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}