I’ve been working on this list of 30+ Black women and gender diverse community leaders who are over 65. With the passing of local African Nova Scotian activist Eddie Carvery and Rev. Jesse Jackson it seems important to share rather than waiting. Don’t wait to give people their flowers. Everyone on this list is still alive and here to learn from, uplift, and … [Read more...] about 30+ Black Women & Gender Diverse Community Leaders Over 65
Autobiography: Redacted – Studies After Howardena Pindell
“All the whiteness was getting on my nerves.” — Howardena Pindell on why she made “Free, White and 21.” (1980), New York Times, 2025 Howardena Pindell is almost 83 years old and still making art in her New York studio. The first Black curator at the Museum of Modern Art, she also co-founded A.I.R. Gallery in New York, the first all-female artists’ cooperative gallery … [Read more...] about Autobiography: Redacted – Studies After Howardena Pindell
2025 JFREJ Virtual Mazals Producer & Diasporspritz
Project: Virtual producer of the 2025 Jews for Racial and Economic Justie (JFREJ) Mazals responsible for virtual run of show, coordinating with special guests, and event facilitation. Designed Diasporspritz printable and marketing content for JFREJ newsletter. Also virtual emcee of the 2024 Virtual Mazals program. Date: September 2025 … [Read more...] about 2025 JFREJ Virtual Mazals Producer & Diasporspritz
Courage/Ometz Lev
Want to find Courage? Let compassion be your compass. Don’t go looking for the one yelling the loudest at the front of the crowd, Courage isn’t always some powerhouse full of fire and fury. Courage is often a quiet thing who visits us in daily decisions and unsung moments. Courage is the girl sold on the street by one of her mother’s boyfriends before she was 14, who … [Read more...] about Courage/Ometz Lev
Notes To A Little Schmuck
Found in my grandmother Ana Brom’s notebooks tucked between instructions on dying wool and sketches for clothing designs are “notes to a little schmuck”, as she referred to herself. Born Ann Doris Rosen in Brooklyn, New York in February 1930 to Jewish parents Clara Brom and Simon Rosen, she died on Vancouver Island, unknown to all but a few family members on the first day of … [Read more...] about Notes To A Little Schmuck
