Pam Smith is a public historian living in Virginia. Pam is co-founder and executive director of the Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training in Chicago. A long-time Chicago consultant for nonprofit organizations, her team conducted the feasibility study that set the stage for the Chicago Freedom School. Pam has worked with many youth groups in the city. She served as a senior press aide to Jesse Jackson in his 1988 presidential bid and to Barack Obama in his primary campaign for US Senate. Pam is coeditor of The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North. Pam is a Level 3 Kingian Nonviolence Trainer.
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Barbara Bezdek is a certified Kingian Nonviolence Trainer based in Baltimore, Maryland. Convinced as a Quaker after completing law school, she retired from work as a law professor after some 30 years specializing in community development law in service of people’s self-determined human needs, at the University of Maryland. She has been involved in affordable housing, sustainable economies law, and economic and social justice issues throughout her adult life, working in the Middle Atlantic as well as New York and China. Barbara collaborates with faith-based and social justice organizers and community builders in Baltimore and beyond.
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Patience Ajoff-Foster is the Assistant Vice President for Inclusive Culture and Belonging at Drexel University. Prior to this role she served co-chair of the Faculty Recruitment and Retention Committee of the Anti-Racism Task Force. She is fluent in five languages and has extensive professional experience working with diverse groups across three continents, including the creation of learning and development programs on a variety of topics. She earned her master of science in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania, bachelor of science in Social and Behavioral Science from Knoxville College, graduate certificate in Student Development and Affairs from Drexel University, and is a certified diversity professional. Ajoff-Foster is currently a PhD candidate in Organizational Development at Cabrini University.
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Bernetta McCall-Millonde is the Director of Diversity Initiatives and Community Relations in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at Drexel University and serves as the Director of the Liberty Scholars Program in the Center for Inclusive Education and Scholarship. She is a trusted and respected leader across Drexel’s campus, emphasizing the value college-aspiring students from marginalized communities bring to the Drexel community, advocating for their needs, and addressing challenges of historically underrepresented students. Bernetta is a trained Train-the-Trainer facilitator committed to team building, ensuring that team members understand and own their roles in the big picture and inclusion to become confident, independent thinkers whose contributions will continue to propel collective group success.
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The Mission of the Martin Luther King, Jr., CommUNITY is to revitalize in our community Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's dream of peace and harmony among all people. It is our vision to create a beloved community in Greater Southern Chester County that provides opportunities for fellowship, service, justice, and the eradication of poverty.
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The MLK Advocates are committed to building and promoting relationships based on equality, justice, and peace, to conducting community awareness forums for cross-racial, cross-cultural dialogues and interactions, intervening where necessary to resolve conflict, and ensure that the voices of the excluded and marginalized are heard.
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