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Local TV Coverage of Our Founder’s Testimony before the US Department of Justice Defending Childhood Task Force.
Listen to her entire testimony before the task force here.
The Wire Wake Up Call: A National Conversation
facilitated by the cast of The Wire and associates featured at TEDx MidAtlantic in Washington DC on October 29, 2011.
Harvard University and ReWired for Change
ReWired for Change Founder and CEO Sonja Sohn, fellow RWFC founders and cast members from The Wire, and two inspirations for this critically-acclaimed HBO TV series went back to school in April 2011–Harvard Law School. You too can learn by clicking here.
Then they served on the panel addressing Urban Problems Up-Close and Personal at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative’s Revitalizing Cities Think Tank, April 28, 2011
New Village House Director Brings Social Justice Theatre to the Community
The RWFC/TVH Director OSI initiative Kujichagulia Project (Theater and Film making for social justice) has been so successful that two schools have requested for this program to be a part of their after school program. The director has consented to instruct these programs on location at these schools which means that RWFC will be exposing the power of Art and Media as a means for social justice to over 40 children this school year. This is in addition to the students that are a part of the RWFC after school program. One of these schools will be serviced in partnership with the Black Mental Health Alliance of Central Maryland. This shows and demonstrated RWFC broadening its base of organizational partnerships.
The Village House Resource Activities and Action Committee Becomes the Village Council
One of the first actions the RAAC took to stake their claim in the community and create a more solid identify for themselves was to change the name of their group to better reflect what they believe to be their role as the Village Elders in their community who will lead the way for the next generation. In addition, they initiated their first community action, in early October 2011 – a Drive By Clean Up of the neighborhood leaving signs in their wake which raised awareness in the neighborhood of the Village Council and that they are living up to their slogan: “We are people who see what needs to be done in our community — AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.”
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- more photos of our brunch meeting, after school program and Pints and Pinstripes fundraiser coming soon. In the meantime, Click the picture to view current photos!
Grandparents Day Breakfast
Last Fall, ReWired for Change served breakfast for grandparents in the neighborhood.
Rewriting the Script
Article from Baltimore Magazine
“A former Wire actress is helping out kids like her…Sean Hawkins, 21, attended ReWired’s summer pilot program and says the positive messages and the unconditional love he received changed his life…Sohn envisions launching the program nationally, even worldwide, but Baltimore takes first priority.”
