RICH Organization Honors Diane Littles Of Southeast Queens

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The RICH (Reach Into Cultural Heights) Organization honored Southeast Queens native Diane Littles for Women’s History Month. Ms. Littles has served as an Organizational Development Consultant for many years. She contributes her skills, knowledge, experience, and creativity to work with Non-Profit organizations to respond to their present challenges, contractual tasks, strategic planning, project planning, and implementation. Some of the non-profit organizations Littles has worked with to grow capacity include: Black Spectrum Theatre, South East Queens Community Partnership, Laguardia Community College School- School to Work at Long Island City HS, St Albans Montessori Academy Of Learning, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation and DIVAS for Social Justice. Ms. Littles has used her Masters In Business Administration to strategically bring change to her beloved Southeast while being the caretaker to her mother. She is the prime example of a woman warrior.



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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.