Planned outreach and managed a team of five to put on a major community event with 100 groups and major logistics and communications challenges, on 7 day notice.
Created all materials, recruited 18 leaders and 3 musical acts for 2 panel discussions focused on immigration policy.
300 in attendance on a Thursday afternoon.
Video of both panels and musical performances:
The Future of NYC Pro-Immigrant Policies: The Road to Justice, Opportunity, and Equity in 2014
On Thursday, November 14th at 2PM, the NYIC is Talking Transition!
Talking Transition is an open conversation about the future of New York City! Join New Yorkers online, in the streets, and at the new meeting place on Canal Street to help shape the transition to New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio. The election may be over, but you can continue to make your voice heard and have a say in how the new administration moves forward with plans for the city. Read the New York Times article on the initiative: http://nyti.ms/1c6E6zh
PROGRAM
Intro Dance/Invocation:
Cetiliztli Nauhcampa Quetzalcoatl
PANEL 1
The Future of NYC Pro-Immigrant Policies: Integration
This panel will focus on issues of immigrant integration and how they can be addressed on the city level, including education, health, equity voting rights, participatory budgeting, economic development, housing, among others.
Moderated by: Jackie Vimo, NYIC Director of Advocacy
Panelists:
Dr. Ron Hayduk, associate director of the Center for Immigration Studies, Queens College
Mae Lee, executive director, Chinese Progressive Association
Gonzalo Mercado, executive director, El Centro del Inmigrante de Staten Island
Vladimir Epshteyn, executive director, Russian American Voter Education League
Claire Sylvan, executive director and president, Internationals Network for Public Schools
Darnell Benoit, executive director, Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project
Dmitri Daniel Glinski, president & CEO, Russian Community Council of Manhattan and the Bronx
Performances
I Am New York: Juan Rodriguez (Organic Magnetics)
Yaccouba Sissoko’s kora trio
PANEL 2
The Future of NYC Pro-Immigrant Policies: Immigration
This panel will focus on issues of immigration and how they can be addressed at the city level, touching on the Deportation and Unjust Detention Crisis, Legal Assistance, Federal Immigration Reform, DACA, DREAM, Asylum, Naturalization, among others.
Moderated by: Steve Choi, executive director, New York Immigration Coalition
Panelists:
Dr. John Mollenkopf, director of the CUNY Graduate Center for Urban Research
Angela Fernandez, executive director, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights
Grace Shim, executive director, MinKwon Center for Community Action
Fahd Ahmed, legal and policy director, DRUM: Desis Rising Up and Moving
Anne Pilsbury, executive director, Central American Legal Assistance
Lucia Gomez, executive director, La Fuente
Valeria Treves, executive director, New Immigrant Community Empowerment
Musical Closeout
The Cimarron Project