Black Women's Roundtable Hosts Health and Economic Justice Event in #SELMA Sat. March 7th 4 pm

SELMA, Ala. - March 6, 2015 - PRLog -- Black Women’s Roundtable  On Health and Economic Justice in Selma, March 7th

WHEN: 4:00pm- 5:30pm,  Saturday, March 7, 2015


WHERE: Wallace Community College

Hank Sanders Technology Building

3000 Earl Goodwin Parkway

Selma, Alabama


Invest, Inspire, Unite!

Co-Hosted by

Alabama Coalition on Black Civic Participation/AL BWR and  #SistersOfSelma

Co-Facilitators

LaTosha Brown, Project Director, Grantmakers for Southern Progress

Melanie Campbell, Convener, Black Women’s Roundtable, President & CEO National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP)

Discussion Leaders:

Diane Babineaux (Economics) - General Vice President, IAMAW

Dr. Monica Baskin (Health) - Expert on health disparities; published report in 2014 detailing disparities in Jefferson County, AL (Birmingham) since 1963

Susan Batten (Economics) – President & CEO, Association of Black Foundation Executives

Tara Bowman (Health) – Manager, Deep South Network for Cancer Control, Alabama Outreach Community Health Education

Dr. Sandra Hullet (Health) -Director of NIH- funded community-based network of clinic in Southern Alabama

Janaye Ingram (Health) - National Executive Director, National Action Network

Letetia Daniels Jackson (Health) - Program Manager, Groundswell Fund

Chancee’ Lundy (Economics) -Entrepreneur, Principal of Nspiregreen, Inc.

Deborah Scott (Economics) - Executive Director,Georgia STAND-UP

Makani Themba (Health) - Executive Director, The Praxis Project

Honorable Shelia Tyson (Economics) –Birmingham City Council & Convener, Alabama Black Women’s Roundtable, ACBCP

Gladys Washington (Economics) - Program Director Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation

The Black Women's Roundtable (BWR) serves as the women and girls empowerment arm of The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. BWR promotes health and wellness, economic security and sustainability, education and global empowerment.   The National Coalition, founded in 1976, creates and enlightens communities by building institutional capacity that provides and develops leadership. By educating, motivating, organizing, and mobilizing Black communities, the National Coalition seeks to encourage full participation in a barrier-free democratic process. The National Coalition works to expand, strengthen, and empower communities to make voting and civic participation a cultural responsibility and tradition.

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