DEB Community Update!

Rooted in Belonging, Growth and Community: An Update on All Things DEB at BFS!

• • 💫 Our Early Childhood and Lower School Friends continue to thrive in exploring identity and in their changemaking! 
  • 💡Middle Schoolers are lifting up diverse voices and creating thoughtful, interdisciplinary justice work and advocacy as they grow into powerful versions of their dreams! 
  • 🎓 Upper School rockstars are preparing for culminating projects, performances, and graduations—with resilience and pride. 
  • Our Colleagues are ending their year with much work which included affinity spaces, professional learning, bold student centered experiences and enduring connection! 
  • Our BFF committees stronger than ever and evolving in dynamic ways as we launched and thrived in affinity groups whose work builds the legacy of belonging! 
  • As always, our pillar of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging (DEB) is at the heart of our work. We continue to shape a space where every voice is heard, and every story matters. 
  • ✨ As we prepare to close the year, we warmly invite you to join us for our end-of-year events—moments of celebration, reflection, and community. 
  • Community is made through presence. You being there—your listening, cheering, witnessing—is a gift. Let’s finish this year together, in gratitude and in Light.

In peace,
Dr. AnaMaria Correa
Director of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging

Coming on May 2: All Community Shabbat Dinner

In the spirit of community, the BFS Jewish Affinity communities, in partnership with the office and BFF committee of Diversity, Equity and Belonging, invite all members of the BFS community to a Shabbat Dinner on Friday, May 2 from 5:30 to 8:30pm in the Lower Gym at 375 Pearl Street. This gathering is intentional in welcoming and gathering all – Jewish and non-Jewish Friends – to experience the “Oneg Shabbos/Joy of Shabbos” and the sacred power of community togetherness. The weekly observance of Shabbat is a sacred practice that focuses on unplugging from daily labors to be in community with family, friends, and neighbors.The evening’s prayers will be led by Cantor Sarah Myerson, Spiritual Leader of the Roosevelt Island Jewish Congregation, and Rabbi Bailey Romano of Brooklyn Heights Synagogue. They will be accompanied by the joyful sounds of the Brooklyn Klezmer Trio. Let’s be together, dance, and eat! Please RSVP to this event at the link.

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