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SUMMARY:Reading for Change
DESCRIPTION:Reading for Change is a free virtual monthly book club. Our book selections are pulled from Stowe Prize shortlist and winners; works which engage with social justice\, tell honest histories\, and model how we can all be part of change for good. \nJoin Catherine Coleman Flowers and Jennyfer Holmes in a community conversation on Holy Ground: On Activism\, Environmental Justice\, and Finding Hope! \n\nFree and open to the public\nZoom! Invite your friends across the country!\n6:00 – 7:15 PM EST\nRiverbend Bookshop: Get a 10% discount our Stowe Prize books! Mention us at check-out or use STOWEFORCHANGE for online purchases.\n\n\nAn inspiring collection of essays\, personal and political\, from the leading environmental justice activist of our time\, that frames the challenges we face as a society and—with grace\, generosity\, and hope—charts the way toward equity\, respect\, and a brighter future. \nDescribed by Bryan Stevenson as “the center of the quest for environmental justice in America\,” Catherine Coleman Flowers has dedicated her life to fighting for the most vulnerable communities—rural\, poor\, of color—who have been deprived of the basic civil right to a clean\, safe\, and sustainable environment. Both deeply personal and urgently political\, the essays in Holy Ground draw on history to illuminate and contextualize the most pressing issues of this moment: from climate change to human rights\, from rural poverty to reproductive justice\, from the notorious history of Lowndes County\, Alabama\, to the broader crisis of racialized disinvestment in the South. Flowers maps the distance and direction toward justice\, examining her own diverse ancestry as evidence of our interconnectedness. She reflects on trailblazers who have fought for social and environmental justice. She writes about her mother\, a civil rights activist who lost her life to gun violence\, and her own deeply personal experience with reproductive justice. And in a remarkably candid and moving piece\, she writes about a traumatic attack that occurred at a moment of collective triumph\, in which she weighs her fight for the common good against her own well-being. Flowers’s faith shines throughout the collection\, guiding her work and inspiring her vision of our responsibility to one another and to our shared home \n\nFacilitators \nCatherine Coleman Flowers is an internationally recognized environmental justice activist and founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ). A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient\, Flowers sits on the board of directors of the Climate Reality Project\, the Natural Resources Defense Council\, and RMI. She has served as the co-vice chair of the inaugural White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and is a practitioner-in-residence at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Flowers is the author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret and has written for the New York Review of Books and the New York Times\, among other publications. In 2023\, she was recognized as one of the TIME 100 most influential people in the world and one of the Forbes 50 Over 50. \n  \nJennyfer A. Holmes is the Senior Scholarship and Development Officer at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. She is responsible for $1.8m in annual scholarship awards\, supporting over 600 students and fulfilling the philanthropic intentions of trusting donors. Her contributions earned her a promotion to her current role in 2018\, taking on Major Gifts responsibilities as well. In 2019\, she earned a Principles of Fundraising Certificate from the Association of Fundraising Professional\, Connecticut Chapter. Prior to Hartford Foundation for Public Giving\, she was a manager of INROADS New England Region\, securing student internships with corporate sponsors. As a proud INROADS alumna\, she secured new corporate clients and helped students launch their professional careers. Before INROADS\, she worked in underwriting for Chubb Insurance\, earning a well-deserved promotion to Assistant Vice President at a relatively young age. An active community volunteer\, Jennyfer served as Secretary on the Board of the American School for the Deaf and the Board of Aurora Women and Girls Foundation. She was Grants Committee Chair and Secretary of the Junior League of Hartford\, Inc.; she is currently a Sustainer. Jennyfer was recently elected to the Board of the Directors of the Connecticut Women’s Council and Board of Trustees of the Stowe Center for Literary Activism.
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LOCATION:Stowe Center for Literary Activism\, 77 Forest Street\, Hartford\, CT\, 06106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading for Change
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SUMMARY:Salons at Stowe
DESCRIPTION:We need to talk. We need each other. We need community. \nJoin the Stowe Center for Literary Activism for an open forum centered on current news and the issues shaping our lives right now. These gatherings invite neighbors into conversation\, reflection\, and community connection in a welcoming space where dialogue can spark understanding and action. \nRather than focusing on a single predetermined topic\, this forum makes room for what people most want and need to talk about. Contemporary issues will remain at the heart of the conversation\, with space for participants to bring their questions\, concerns\, and perspectives. \nCome be in community\, engage with others\, and help turn conversation into action. \nAbout Derek Hall \nDerek Hall (he/him/his) is a dynamic anti-racist intergroup dialogue facilitator\, public speaker\, and activist committed to challenging beliefs and institutional culture rooted in systemic racism and other forms of oppression. \nDerek has worked in the diversity\, equity\, and inclusion field for more than ten years\, partnering with public and private school systems\, for-profit and nonprofit organizations locally and nationally. His passion for decolonized education\, human connection\, and implementing racial equity strategies has led him to speak to audiences of more than 500 people and facilitate groups as small as 5 to 15. As a Racial Equity Consultant and Coach\, Derek believes that “changed people change systems\,” and he uses facilitation\, storytelling\, and community building to deepen the racial and social consciousness of individuals and organizations.
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SUMMARY:Reading for Change
DESCRIPTION:Reading for Change is a free virtual monthly book club. Our book selections are pulled from Stowe Prize shortlist and winners; works which engage with social justice\, tell honest histories\, and model how we can all be part of change for good. \nJoin Anna Malaika Tubbs and Arianna Baret Peralta in a community conversation on Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us! \n\nFree and open to the public\nZoom! Invite your friends across the country!\n6:00 – 7:15 PM EST\nRiverbend Bookshop: Get a 10% discount our Stowe Prize books! Mention us at check-out or use STOWEFORCHANGE for online purchases.\n\n\n \nIn Erased\, Anna Malaika Tubbs\, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers\, returns with an unflinching excavation of all that American patriarchy has tried to destroy. \nPatriarchy has ruled across the world throughout much of human history\, but it operates differently in each nation in which it is found. In Erased\, Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs investigates how our understanding of human identity in the United States has been determined since the founding fathers’ drafting of the Constitution\, in which they excluded women from equal rights\, protected the institution of slavery\, and suppressed Indigenous belief systems. Spanning the full\, unfiltered history of the nation\, this groundbreaking history makes clear how deeply ingrained in politics\, culture\, and society our unique gendered hierarchy truly is and has been for nearly 250 years. \nTold with Tubbs’s trademark blend of rigorous research and accessible storytelling\, Erased asks readers to suspend blaming themselves or one another for the struggles we face as a country and instead turn their attention toward an inequitable system that leaves none of us unscathed. Timely and eye-opening\, Erased brings hope and guidance for letting go of American patriarchy once and for all. \n\nFacilitators  \n \nAnna Malaika Tubbs is a 2X New York Times Bestselling author who grew up in Dubai\, Mexico\, Sweden\, Estonia\, Azerbaijan\, as well as the United States. Influenced by her exposure to all kinds of cultures and beliefs\, Anna is inspired to bring people together through the celebration of difference. Anna holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and a Masters in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge in addition to a Bachelors in Medical Anthropology from Stanford University. She takes from her academic background and produces content that is easy for others to connect with and understand. \n \nArianna Baret Peralta is the manager of Asset Management Technology at Eversource Energy\, she’s been with the company since 2009 and has held various roles in the Engineering and Operations organizations. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from INTEC (Dominican Republic) and a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from WPI. Born and raised in the Dominican Republic\, she moved to the US in 2006 and has been a CT resident ever since. Arianna believes in the positive impact volunteering work has in our communities and has volunteered with several nonprofit organizations across CT (Special Olympics\, Autism Speaks\, Operation Fuel\, JA of Southwest New England\, United Way\, American Heart Association). Animal lover\, big fan of laughs.
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SUMMARY:Reading for Change
DESCRIPTION:Reading for Change is a free virtual monthly book club. Our book selections are pulled from Stowe Prize shortlist and winners; works which engage with social justice\, tell honest histories\, and model how we can all be part of change for good. \nJoin Ashley D. Farmer and Kamora Herrington in a community conversation about Queen Mother: Black Nationalism\, Reparations\, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore! \n\nFree and open to the public\nZoom! Invite your friends across the country!\n6:00 – 7:30 PM EST\nRiverbend Bookshop: Get a 10% discount our Stowe Prize books! Mention us at check-out or use STOWEFORCHANGE for online purchases.\n\n\n \nFrom an award-winning historian of radical Black politics comes the definitive biography of Queen Mother Audley Moore—foremother of the Black Nationalism movement and trailblazer in the fight for reparations. \nIn the world of radical Black politics\, the name Audley Moore commands unquestioned respect. Across the nine decades of her life\, Queen Mother Moore distinguished herself as a leading progenitor of Black Nationalism\, the founder of the modern reparations movement\, and a mentor to some of America’s most influential Black activists from her homes in North Philadelphia and Harlem. \nAnd yet\, she is far less remembered than many of her peers and protégés—Marcus Garvey\, Malcolm X\, and Muhammad Ahmad\, to name just a few—and the ephemera of her life are either lost or plundered. In Queen Mother\, celebrated writer and historian Ashley D. Farmer restores Moore’s faded portrait\, delivering the first ever definitive account of her life and enduring legacy. \nDeeply researched and richly detailed\, Queen Mother is more than just the biography of an American icon. It’s a narrative history of 20th-century Black radicalism\, told through the lens of the woman whose grit and determination sustained the movement. \n\nFacilitators \n \nDr. Ashley Farmer is an internationally known and award-winning writer\, researcher\, and cultural analyst who explores and reports on Black history and its implications today. She is the author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era and Queen Mother: Black Nationalism\, Reparations\, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore. Farmer’s ideas and insights have appeared in numerous venues\, including Harper’s Bazaar\, NPR\, the Washington Post\, and Teen Vogue. Ashley lives\, reads\, and writes in Austin\, Texas\, and teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. \n  \n \nKamora Le’Ella Herrington is a mother first\, in all of the ways that a mother is. She is the founder and visionary of Kamora’s Cultural Corner and is an active Cultural Humility presenter and educator who began her formal career as a teacher for the City of Hartford’s Early Learning Centers.
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SUMMARY:Reading for Change
DESCRIPTION:Reading for Change is a free virtual monthly book club. Our book selections are pulled from Stowe Prize shortlist and winners; works which engage with social justice\, tell honest histories\, and model how we can all be part of change for good. \nJoin Kellie Carter Jackson and Kamora Herrington in a community conversation about We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance \n\n\nFree and open to the public\nZoom! Invite your friends across the country!\n6:00 – 7:15 PM EST\nRiverbend Bookshop: Get a 10% discount our Stowe Prize books! Mention us at check-out or use STOWEFORCHANGE for online purchases.\n\n\n \nA radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy  \nBlack resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary\, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence and Malcolm X’s “by any means necessary.” In We Refuse\, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice\, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression\, particularly those pioneered by Black women. \nThe dismissal of “Black violence” as an illegitimate form of resistance is itself a manifestation of white supremacy\, a distraction from the insidious\, unrelenting violence of structural racism. Force—from work stoppages and property destruction to armed revolt—has played a pivotal part in securing freedom and justice for Black people since the days of the American and Haitian Revolutions. But violence is only one tool among many. Carter Jackson examines other\, no less vital tactics that have shaped the Black struggle\, from the restorative power of finding joy in the face of suffering to the quiet strength of simply walking away. \nClear-eyed\, impassioned\, and ultimately hopeful\, We Refuse offers a fundamental corrective to the historical record\, a love letter to Black resilience\, and a path toward liberation. \n\nFacilitators \n \nKellie Carter Jackson is the Michael and Denise ‘68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies and the Chair of the Africana Studies Department Wellesley College. She is the author award winning We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Seal Press). We Refuse won the Darlene Clark Hine Award for the Best Book on African American Women’s History given by the Organization of American Historians. It was also listed as Ms. Magazine’s Favorite Books of the Year\, the Smithsonian’s Best History Books of the Year\, a New York Times Editor’s Book Choice\, Essence’s Top 15 Book Picks for Summer\, and received starred reviews from both Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly\, among other accolades. \n \nKamora Le’Ella Herrington is a mother first\, in all of the ways that a mother is. She is the founder and visionary of Kamora’s Cultural Corner and is an active Cultural Humility presenter and educator who began her formal career as a teacher for the City of Hartford’s Early Learning Centers.
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