Holiday Gift Shoppe 2025

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Minimalisa in partnership with Garden of Resilience and DIVAS for Social Justice will host their annual Holiday Gift Shoppe on December 14, 2025. Since 2023, Minimalisa has hosted free  monthly clothing giveaways at Garden of Resilience . During the giveaways, Garden of Resilience has provided its space and free vegetables to constituents that come to the monthly event. 

The Holiday Gift Shoppe is the final event each year. This year, we would like to ensure the giveaway has more toys. We are inviting partners to provide unwrapped toys to our giveaway. 

The Holiday Gift Shoppe flyer is shared with the local school districts and disseminated widely. 

If you have unwrapped toys you can donate to our Holiday Gift Shoppe. We would welcome your support.

Buy a gift directly from our Amazon Wish List of Toys.
Please join us on December 14, 2025 to celebrate our Holiday Gift Shoppe! For information to donate toys directly, please contact: cj@divasforsocialjustice.org

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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.