Learn about Junior Achievement in the flyer below and for more information contact:
Lakeisha Houston, Education Manager
lhouston@jaconn.org
Junior Achievement of Southwest New England, Inc
70 Farmington Avenue
Hartford, CT 06105
(860) 525-4510 office | (860) 525-4403 fax
Karen Taylor, Trinity IDP ’15, (photo by Chion Wolf, WNPR)
Karen Taylor, a Trinity College IDP ’15 and Weaver High School graduate, was nominated today by Mayor Luke Bronin to serve on the Hartford Board of Education. The nomination must next go before the Hartford City Council for approval.
Congratulations to Karen, Dr. Colon-Rivas, Attorney Richard Wareing, and Attorney Tiffany Glanville on their nomination! Read a short bio about Karen below and the other nominees here.
From the City of Hartford Press Release:
Karen Taylor is a North End parent of two elementary school twins at the University of Hartford Magnet School. She is a proud graduate of Weaver High School and Trinity College’s IDP program and is a member of the Sheff Movement Coalition and the Greater Hartford NAACP.
Taylor is currently enrolled in Leadership Greater Hartford’s Quest program and serves as an advisor to Trinity College Black Women’s Organization. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Trinity College in Educational Studies with honors.
“I am humbled to accept the Mayor’s nomination,” Taylor said. “As a Hartford parent, I would be honored to serve the students and families of our great city.”’
The Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Office of Student Activities, Involvement & Leadership (S.A.I.L.) will host a number of events at Trinity College to celebrate Black History Month 2016. The theme this year is intersectionality.
Here’s an overview of events below. Learn more here.
For over 30 years, the Adventures in the City program—program of the Christian Activities Council (CAC)– has provided free, high-quality summer programming to Hartford youth residents. The Children’s Defense Fund (a national non-profit organization founded by Marian Wright Edelman) has selected CAC’s Adventures in the City program as a Freedom School® site for summer 2016. This program will serve approximately 100, low-income students in grades k-3 from Hartford’s North End neighborhoods and will take place at Thirman Milner School in Hartford.
Currently, CAC is hiring two Site Coordinators and ten Servant Leader Interns to join our dynamic Adventures in the City Freedom School team this summer. These paid, seasonal positions include a unique, all-expenses paid professional development opportunity to participate in a national training at the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School center in Tennessee. It might seem a bit early to apply for summer positions, but our first training is scheduled for March. Therefore, we will start the interview process in a couple of weeks!
If you or any students have specific questions about the positions, please don’t hesitate to contact Stacy Lopez, salopez@christianactivities.org, or (860) 527-9860, or Cori Mackey, CAC Executive Director at (860) 527-9860.
You can apply online here.
Summer 2016 Program Site Coordinator (Link to PDF)
Summer 2016 Servant Leader Intern (Link to PDF)
Register here.
First Latino Policy Day at the Capitol (210 Capitol Ave., Hartford, CT) on February 4, 2016. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required for attendance. There will be six sessions throughout the day and you can register to attend all sessions or only those sessions of interest to you. Sessions are expected to be filled early, so we encourage everyone to register as soon as possible. This public non-partisan forum is co-sponsored by the Latino & Puerto Rican Affairs Commission and the Hispanic Federation. It will be held from 9:00 AM to 4:40 PM in room 310 at the Capitol. (Snow date is February 5.) Information on how to register for Latino Policy Day is below. Registration is limited to one per person.
Event and registration page:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/connecticut-latino-public-policy-day-tickets-20580084587
Join the Trinity College Computer Science Department for an “Hour of Code”.
Ever wonder what it was like to CODE? Join us for coding, fun, food, and raffle prizes!
All Trinity students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend and complete an Hour of Code — Trinity students are encouraged to spread the word to their friends, teammates, professors, etc. No coding experience is necessary! In fact, this is meant especially for beginners — all you need to bring is a laptop and an open mind. Food will be available during the event and anyone who successfully completes an Hour of Code that day will be entered to win some raffle prizes.
Learn more about the event here.
This is the last of a series of three forums. You can learn more about the forums here:
http://www.hfpg.org/latest-updates/updates/3-upcoming-metro-hartford-progress-points-forums/
Register at hfpg.org/events using the Event Code: PROGRESS3
On Monday, November 9, 2015, Rosa Clemente visited Trinity College to present her talk entitled, “Thinking Critically about #blacklivesmatter”. Current and former students, faculty, and staff gathered in Smith House to hear Clemente, who is a nationally-known, Black Puerto Rican organizer, journalist, and entrepreneur.
Using the “Ferguson Moment” as a reference point, she focused her message of thinking and organizing critically for the current Trinity students. She reflected on past success and challenges in activism, scholarship; and she urged students to become active in whatever space, position, or situation they found themselves. She reminded students that there is always work to be done for racial, economic, and social justice.
In clear, real talk, Clemente was most eloquent in speaking about vulnerability in activism. Quoting the assassinated Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, she reminded students that “you dare to struggle, you dare to win”. In other words, despite the risks, activism – minor and major – opens up possibilities that were not there before.
She also talked about her own love for activism, working to find balance in her life, and the importance of being open about mental health struggles. Her openness and insight made it feel like we were in the living room of an aunt or titi (as she mentioned a few times) and listening to the sharp wisdom that you can’t hear outside of a familiar space. Like an aunt’s house, the crowd listened for nearly three hours into the night with new insights and unresolved questions.
The evening was sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Multicultural Affairs Council of the Student Government Association at Trinity College.
