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Brooklyn in Solidarity with Immigrants and Refugees

April 19, 2017
By: Brooklyn Friends School

 

Eighty students, faculty, and community members came together on Tuesday, April 18th for “Brooklyn in Solidarity with Immigrants and Refugees: Turning Interscholastic Conversations into Collaborative Action.” Inspired by the collaboration of the heads of four Brooklyn independent schools, this joint faculty/student programming initiative was co-organized by Natania Kremer at Brooklyn Friends Tené Howard at Packer, Matt Budd at Berkeley Carroll, and Diane Gnagnarelli at Saint Ann’s along with student leaders for all four schools.

Brooklyn Friends School student organizers included Angel I (Class of 2018), Maxine S (Class of 2019), Ashley B (Class of 2019), and Salma B (Class of 2020).bfsstudentorganizers

The event featured a student-led art and community-building activity, and an incredible panel of activists including Adama Bah, Angy Rivera with the New York State Youth Leadership Council, Zainab Abdullah with the The Arab-American Family Support Center, Kaberi Banerjee Murthy with Brooklyn Community Foundation, and Lindsay Mullett with Lutheran Social Services of New York’s Immigration Legal Program.

Participants heard from all four Heads of School and explored how immigrants and refugees are dealing with urgent contemporary challenges, and how to take accountable action in solidarity with community partners.

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FOLLOW-UP

Here are details for several upcoming opportunities that were announced at the event:

And you can check out this video footage of the panel discussion as well: