SEQ CLEAN UP Hosts Tool Drive and Clean Up In Rosedale!

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Join SEQ Clean Up In Rosedale on Saturday, October 17, 2020. SEQ Clean Up will also be collecting tools for gardening and landscaping .

SEQ Clean Up will host a Lawn and Garden Tool Drive. Community residents are encouraged to bring new and gently used lawn and garden tools to be donated. Since the impact of COVID-19, the pandemic has brought to the surface the underlying issues in communities of color of food disparity and environmental justice. To clean and beautify your community is the art of activism. In communities of color, groups like SEQ Clean Up and Operation Clean Up defy the stereotypes  and represent that people of color care about their communities and want more for the greater good of the community.

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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.