Operation Clean Up Launches 2020 Season With Garden Of Resilience

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Operation Clean Up kicked off its 2020 Season  in partnership with DIVAS for Social Justice. Both organizations serve as stewards to the newly minted Garden Of Resilience . Garden Of Resilience is supported by Greenthumb. Community residents planted flowers beds in front of the community garden to commemorate the start of the growing season.

15 volunteers weeded, turned soil and started building a tool shed for the community garden.Garden Of Resilience also received an outside Black Lives Matter Banner designed by Collin Gayle and printed by The UPS Store on Merrick Boulevard  as a gift to the space. The mission of Garden Of Resilience is to address the issue of food access and education in the wake of COVID-19. Garden Of Resilience will provide healthy food options to the community. The community garden space will get it’s raised garden beds delivered the week of July 6th, 2020. To become a member of Garden Of Resilience ,click here.

 

 

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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.