SEQ CLEAN UP Hosts Final Service Project For the Season

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SEQ Clean Up will host it’s final event for the season on November 21, 2020 from 12-3PM. The community clean up and turkey giveaway will take place at:

Dr. Charles R. Drew Park

116th Ave & 140th Street

Jamaica, NY 11436

Volunteers are needed for cleaning and the planting of bulbs to ensure a beautiful spring in Southeast Queens. In addition, lead organizer DJ Nett has secured through sponsorship 40 free Turkey giveaways. If you would like to be involved as a volunteer or sponsor please reach out at: deejaynett@aol.com

 

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Clarisa James
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.

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