General Membership Meeting

Building Healthy Communities and Neighborhood Safety  An Open Discussion:

A talk on what we can do with our neighbors, friends, and family, to build places of joy and opportunity.

Moderated by Meg Bossong,
Director of Sexual Assault Response, and Health Education at Williams College.

Meg is responsible for all aspects of student-facing sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking prevention, response, advocacy programs and health education. Prior to her current role, Meg worked for seven years in a variety of roles at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, organizing communities to prevent sexual violence and working with colleagues to improve systems responses based on the experiences of those harmed by sexual violence. She has been a commissioner with the Berkshire County Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, and is a founding member of Invest in Pittsfield, a multiracial coalition of community members and organizations advocating for the reallocation of the municipal budget from policing to health, housing, youth services, and other programs and structures to make Pittsfield, MA a just, healthy and thriving community. Meg’s education has come from institutions (a B.A. from Williams College and an M.S. from Northeastern University), but more fully from the history of many justice movements, books and podcasts, storytelling, being in community with people and in the words of Amita Swadhin, with “people who trusted me with wisdom that goes beyond my own experience,” for which she is deeply grateful.

All members will receive email with the Zoom link prior to the meeting. If you are not a member and wish to attend, send a request to naacpberkshirecounty@gmail.com

Agenda

• MOMENT OF SILENCE
• TREASURE REPORT
• MINUTES OF MAY 4^TH

PRESIDENTS REPORT:

• Amina Wilson, Assistant Treasurer
• Pride Festival June 4^th
• Juneteenth Celebration – Live 95.5
• Jacob’s Pillow Gala

REPORT OF COMMITTEE CHAIRS:

• RACE RELATIONS ~ Shirley Edgerton
• REDRESS ~ Christine Daignault & Anthony Haynes
• COMMUNICATION ~ Darcie Sosa & Kate Hocker
• EDUCATION ~ Dr. Frances Jones-Sneed & Linda Evans
• MEMBERSHIP ~ Daryl Shreve
• ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT/JUSTICE ~ Alfred (AJ) Enchill
• POLITICAL ACTION ~ Helen Moon
• WEBSITE ~ Rebecca Thompson
• HOUSING ~ Kamaar Taliaferro
• FREEDOM FUND ~ Kathie Penna & Dennis Powell
• HEALTHY COMMUNITIES ~AN OPEN DISCUSSION ~ Meg Bossong, Moderator
• NEW BUSINESS:
• ANNOUNCEMENTS
• adjournment