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Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 6 pm to 8 pm
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13^th Street (between 5^th and 6^th avenues), 2^nd floor

Featuring Myron Orfield, Executive Director, Institute on Race & Poverty, University of Minnesota and author, Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability

Suburban growth and development away from central cities have increased segregation and racial inequalities in the U.S. Using the Twin Cities region as a lens, Orfield shows why policy makers must shift from neighborhood-level responses and develop regional solutions that promote equity and integration for housing, jobs, and schools.

The lecture will be followed by a discussion about the New York region with:
Darrick Hamilton, Assistant Professor, Milano
Alex Schwartz, Associate Professor, Milano
Tom Wright, Executive Director, Regional Plan Association

Admission is free, but you must reserve a seat. To RSVP call 212.229.5418 or email centernyc@newschool.edu.

Established in 2006, The Henry Cohen Lecture focuses on public policy challenges and solutions for women, children, and families, particularly in impoverished urban settings. The Henry Cohen Professorship, which focuses on these same issues, is an endowed Chair at Milano. The Lecture and Professorship are both named after Milano's founding dean, who served from 1965 to 1983.

The Center for New York City Affairs is a nonpartisan institute dedicated to advancing innovative public policies that strengthen neighborhoods, support families and reduce urban poverty.

Center for New York City Affairs
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Promoting Integrated Communities will be Topic of Talk at Summit (NJ) Unitarian Church, March 15th
By The Unitarian Church in Summit
3/3/2009

Barbara Heisler Williams, a national leader in promoting racially and ethnically integrated communities, will speak on the topic "Toward Intentional Integration" at noon on Sunday, March 15th, at The Unitarian Church in Summit, 4 Waldron Avenue (at Springfield Ave.) The talk is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the church’s Racial Justice Task Force.

Heisler Williams, who lives in Maplewood, is executive director of Fund for an OPEN Society, America’s only national nonprofit whose sole purpose is working to promote thriving, inclusive communities. The group works in communities on housing, school and civic engagement issues, proactively to create stable integrated communities, and when concerns about racial change result in instability.

OPEN has also created a curriculum called LeadershipMatters to engage all residents of a community in problem solving and democratic practice, especially persons of color, immigrants and low-income individuals. The curriculum was developed with the Professional Development Institute at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.

Prior to joining OPEN, Heisler Williams was founding executive director of the South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race, a model integration maintenance organization. Under her leadership, the Coalition received awards from the American Psychological Association and Leadership New Jersey, an leadership-development organization of businesses, non-profits and governmental units.

The Unitarian Church in Summit draws members from various religious and cultural backgrounds who join together in their individual quests for truth and meaning. There is no creed or test of membership, but the community is bound together by principles, shared values and a desire to serve. We are a member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.

For further information, contact the church at (908) 273-3245 or at www.ucsummit.org