Operation Clean Up Builds Relationships with Local Business Owners

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The Laurelton Operation Clean Up had another successful community outreach event specifically reaching out to local business owners and providing a business packet that contained resources and a list of local community based partners.

Assemblywoman Alicia Hyndman sponsored and participated in the business outreach event. Hyndman and Manuel Silva of Councilman Donovan Richards office went door to door with other local community residents to encourage local business owners to participate in Operation Clean Up and also make them aware of the resources the city has so they can thrive.

The community event was also in partnership with Order of the Feather Fraternity and Elmer H. Blackburne Democratic Club.

 

The next Operation Clean Up event will take place August 4, 2018. For more information, please contact: laureltonoperationcleanup@gmail.com

 

 

 

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Clarisa James
Clarisa James is the Co-Founder/Executive Director of DIVAS (Digital Interactive Visual Arts Sciences) for Social Justice. For the past seven years DIVAS has provided free or sliding scale technology training to youth in underserved communities in Central Brooklyn and Southeast Queens. Ms. James has been dedicated to youth development work for the past 15years in the roles of Teaching Artist, After School Director, Curriculum Specialist and artist. Her life's work encompasses empowering youth in underserved communities to use technology for social change and think critically about the issues that are affecting them most. For the past seven years Ms. James has facilitated workshops that help youth develop multimedia projects around environmental justice, housing, leadership development and reproductive justice. Ms. James holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College's Film & Media Department. In addition to DIVAS for Social Justice, Ms. James currently serves on the advisory board of the Children’s Cabinet, Office of the Deputy Mayor Strategic Policy Initiatives at City Hall. Clarisa James is full of gratitude to her parents for providing such a wonderful upbringing and having the foresight to move into the community of Laurelton in the early 1970's. Clarisa is proud to be a daughter of Laurelton.