Sentences with phrase «lead organizer in»

The MTA was the lead organizer in creating the No campaign and its successful strategy.

said Lekia Hill, lead organizer in Syracuse for the Alliance for Quality Education.

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Organizers said they expected more than 700,000 people to attend the March for Our Lives rally at the foot of Capitol Hill, a gathering led by survivors of the Feb. 14 attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

But for some black racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embraced.

As in the case of Mars Hill publishers, conference organizers and even those leading the very Acts 29 Network Driscoll co-founded concluded thatit was bad business to associate with him anymore — the blowback wasn't worth whatever buzz and bucks he could deliver.

However, I will mention that in addition to his extensive corpus in philosophical theology and his vast work as organizer of conferences and editor of the writings of others, he has become the leading spokesperson for the 9/11 truth movement.

Rodriguez is in Houston this week preparing for a leading role in Saturday's Christian prayer, «The Response,» which organizers describe as «a call to prayer.»

Delonte is an artist, a theologian and an organizer who is the lead pastor at Peace Fellowship Church in Washington DC.

FoodBev Media is also the leading organizer of international awards in the food and drink industries.

About the Event Organizer: Beverage Trade Network (BTN) is a leading online marketing and B2B networking platform servicing suppliers, buyers and beverage professionals in the global beverage industry.

The COMEXPOSIUM Group, one of the world's leading event organizers, is involved in more than 170 B2C and B2B events across 11 different sectors, including food, agriculture, fashion, security, digital, construction, high - tech, optics and transport.

As Nigeria continues to dominate the retail sector in Sub Saharan Africa, Food West Africa organizers Informa Life Sciences Exhibitions, the world's leading publishing and exhibitions company, expect the trade event to attract more than 4,400 industry professionals from 25 countries looking to make new wholesale, retail and food service contacts in the industry.

Once organizers reach an agreement with Visit Concord, the staff members of Visit Concord will continue to provide support in leading up to the event.

The Chicago Park District has taken the first step toward renaming the beach after Tobey Prinz, a longtime Rogers Park community organizer who decades ago led the campaign that protected 13 beaches in Rogers Park and Edgewater from high - rise development.

Joining me in the interview is Green Moms Carnival Founding Member, author, environmental expert, and XRF - gun wielding lead - toy - tester Jennifer Taggert — also known as The Smart Mama — and Lisa Frack, online parent organizer at The Environmental Working Group.

On February 22, 2012, Nana Kwabena Bobie - Ansah, host of «Ekosi Sen», a political talk show on Asempa 94.7 woke up in the morning, dressed up and left his home for work with idea that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Youth Organizer was going to lead armed party thugs to invade his office, and take away that which puts food on the tables of his dependants.

As new frontiers have exploded in the areas of data and digital, NOI has been at the leading edge, equipping emerging and established organizers with the skills and tools they need to win,» says Ben Goldfarb, Wellstone's Executive Director.

Tuesday, I'll be going over the essentials of online advocacy communications for a group of manufacturing - union field organizers, and later in the week I'll lead a breakout session on similar topics at a conference of community arts organizations at the Kennedy Center.

That will lead to a similarly unsustainable dynamic as when the DNC spun up the 50 - state Organizers Program in 2007 only to have it fall apart in 2009 for lack of continuing support.

Candles for Clemency organizer Allen Roskoff leads march along Route 133 Saturday night to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's house in hopes of having the governor reconsider his refusal in granting clemency to prisoners.

The following day, led by community organizer Yetta Kurland and others, over 100 volunteers transported the materials to community organizer Jacques Leandre who then distributed the goods to desperately underserved areas in the Far Rockaway section of Queens — neighborhoods that still had no electricity and very limited access to resources.

Kofi Adams, National Organizer of NDC has rubbished claims by the NPP that it is leading in the closely contested election insisting that these reports are blatant lies.

The chairman who was suspended in November 2015 over his allegiance to their interdicted NPP National Chairman, Paul Afoko and his supporters from across the constituency, had gathered at Ga to address the media when the Upper West regional organizer of the NPP, Issahaku Seidu, a.k.a Alele, allegedly led thugs from the Wa Central branch of the party to disrupt the programme.

The three, Japheth Baidoo, organizer; Anita Anan, women's organizer and Kirk Mensah, deputy regional communications director, also made a case for the party to persuade President John Mahama to lead the party in the 2020 elections.

In the lobby of Christine Quinn's headquarters near City Hall, the candidate's lead organizer, Abbey Fashouer, had a message Thursday for about a dozen volunteers ready to hit the streets: «There's still time to persuade those who are undecided or wishy - washy on who to vote for.»

Anti-convention organizers are concerned that holding an effort to rewrite or change the constitution could lead to a challenge to hard - won benefits and rights in the existing document.

Ann Brown, Indivisible Western Ulster coordinator and Ellenville lead site organizer states, «Having so many first - time activists turnout in Ellenville was a huge inspiration.

Louisa Fletcher - Pacheco, lead organizer of the Working Families Party of Western New York, said the party was attracted to McMurray's positions on issues «that matter to working people in America today.»

I've known her and I've watched her and its clear that whether as a civil rights attorney working on gender discrimination cases or a grassroots community organizer, Jenifer has demonstrated time and again her ability and her interest and her willingness and her energy in building diverse coalitions to tackle community problems and to lead.

The expedition, led by organizer Norman Dyhrenfurth and climbing leader Willi Unsoeld, was one of the most stunning accomplishments in the history of climbing, not just for the meeting near the summit of two successful teams from opposite sides of the mountain, but for the teamwork that made the whole team much greater than the sum of the participants.

In the run up to last Saturday's global March for Science, «nonpartisan» was the mantra of many organizers, particularly those leading the flagship event in Washington, D.CIn the run up to last Saturday's global March for Science, «nonpartisan» was the mantra of many organizers, particularly those leading the flagship event in Washington, D.Cin Washington, D.C..

In the lead up to my journey across the pond the iCHSTM organizers offered me the opportunity to publish a shortened version of my talk on the conference blog where I have cross-posted that which follows.

PNNL scientist Ruby Leung was the lead organizer of the international, invitation - only Regional Climate Modeling workshop «Research Needs and Directions of Regional Climate Modeling Using WRF and CCSM» held March 22 - 23, in Boulder, Colorado.

Technical coordinator of a national convention in France involving industry and universities on the same subject Since 1992: Organizer of a cycle of international conferences on «Heavy scintillators for scientific and industrial applications» First one in Chamonix, France in 1992 (200 participants), 9th one in Winston Salem (NC, USA) in 2007 (300 participants) 1994 - 2007: As Technical coordinator of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter at the LHC Large Hadron Collider, responsible for the technical development and the mass production of 76» 000 Lead Tungstate crystals (100 tons) 1994 - 2000: Organizer of the development and mass production organization of Lutetium Aluminum perovskite crystals, in particular for PET scanner applications Since 2000: Strong involvement in the development of dedicated breast imaging camera combining several modalities for a multiparametric evaluation of breast tumors (anatomic, structural and functional) Since 2002: Feasibility study and setting - up of an international medical imaging research centre, presently being built in Marseille (Cerimed)

The study was conducted out of the University of Rhode Island, in collaboration with researchers at Texas State University, and was led by Dr. Navindra P. Seeram, the symposium's organizer.

Jessica was previously the Director of Communications at Just Vision, where she produced films for seven years with director Julia Bacha and led communications strategy in support of Palestinian and Israeli community organizers and human rights defenders.

Canadian - shot Cold War monster movie The Shape of Water led nominations Tuesday for the British Academy Film Awards, as organizers announced a new female host and promised to fight sexism and sexual misconduct in showbiz.

According to a press release from Paramount Pictures: «Following the lead of a team of African - American business leaders in New York and across the U.S., funds have been established in Chicago, Dallas, New Orleans, Oakland / San Francisco Bay Area and Washington D.C. African - American business leaders in these cities — along with organizers in Boston, Nashville, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Sarasota, FL and Westchester — have created programs that will allow students in these locations to see «Selma» for free at participating theaters.»

Shanker is perhaps best known for his work as a union organizer in New York City, where he founded the United Federation of Teachers in 1960 and led the 1968 Ocean Hill - Brownsville strikes.

Some of the organizers behind Education Forward have some clever ideas about how to fund the online courses a student might take, for example — by offering 50 percent of funding to the provider up - front for enrollment, 25 percent for the student passing the course, and the last 25 percent upon successful passage of the state final exam — but this idea, which moves the focus to student outcomes, isn't codified explicitly in the initiative (although the notion of competency - based learning is, which might lead to such an outcomes - based funding system).

I also led a group of housing - project boys in various activities one afternoon a week at an old - line settlement house in East Cambridge led by the charismatic Elsa Baldwin, a chain - smoking, tireless, compassionate socialist, community organizer, and unbending poverty warrior.

Over the course of his 25 - year career, Mattox has: * written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and other major publications; * spoken at educational conferences in Geneva, Prague, Rome, and Vatican City; * led writing workshops at Duke, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, and other major universities; * served as a speechwriter for several Members of Congress in Washington, D.C.; * directed a documentary film and a number of other media projects, including a public service ad campaign that ran in Rolling Stone; and * spearheaded a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects, working closely with polling firms, focus group organizers, and «think tank» scholars.

With doses of historical presidential vignettes integrated, the HFRP paper, Taking the Lead in Family Engagement: A Message to Our Followers on Presidents» Day, highlights the commentaries of several leaders who represent a diversity of perspectives; from university researchers to parental and community organizers.

AOCC student organizers are led by tri-chairs Tony Delarosa, master's candidate in arts in education; Ph.D. candidate Avriel Epps; and Jennifer Kuang, master's candidate in international education policy.

Organizers of the alliance conceived of it as a membership organization for state - level charter school associations and resource centers, and hoped it would emerge as the leading voice in Washington for the independently run public schools.

For over two weeks, a dozen parents, teachers and community members have been leading a hunger strike to save Dyett High School in Chicago — and in so doing they have inspired education justice organizers across the country.

Lead parent organizer Amabilia Villeda, left, 41, and fellow parents meet at a park nearby 24th Street Elementary School, where parents are becoming among the first in the nation to force a major overhaul through California's «parent trigger» law.

Internet search engines are incorporating graphic organizers as a tool to lead info seekers in their quests for information.

Youth Organizers for the Now Generation (YOUNG) Coalition in Boston, Massachusetts is an exciting youth - led coalition founded by Youth on Board and Boston Youth Organizing Project.

She is currently a Lead Organizer with Students for Education Reform, organizing college students around education justice issues in her home district.