SEQ Clean Up Initiative Builds Community & Beautification In Southeast Queens

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The SEQ Clean Up Initiative has actively brought together community through organizing various clean ups, entrepreneurial connections and Hip Hop. Founder of the SEQ Clean Up Initiative , Karen Irby-Lawson AKA DJ Nett has organized a number of impactful community events this past summer. This past Sunday,September 13, 2020, SEQ CleanUp partnered with Pear Tree Explorers Daycare Center to clean up the surrounding streets of the home daycare and paint a community mural that will be featured on the backyard fence of the wonderful establishment.

Sekima Sanders, Founder, Pear Tree Explorers Home Child Care Inc.

 

The WeSoCreative Kids Company provided paint supplies for the mural.SEQ Clean Up Initiative successfully organized local entrepreneurs ,grassroots organizations and city agencies to come together for the beautification of Southeast Queens.   Additional partners of the September 13th event included: Shakti Wellness Bar, Sisters with Loving Souls, and  NYC Department Of Correction & NYCD Fraternal Organizations.

Sisters With Loving Souls serving the community.
Volunteers cleaning along the Cross Island Parkway

SEQCleanUp Initiative will host it’s next event September 20, 2020 at  Baisley Pond Park and is seeking volunteers. All are welcome!

 

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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.