Celebrating the Village at Ithaca's 10th Anniversary

February 16 5:30-7:00pm
with the presentation
Leadership in the Community
given by
Dr. Nick Salvatore
Thursday, February 16, 2012
5:30 - 7:00 pm 
Borg Warner Room, Tompkins County Public Library

Reverand C.L. Franklin motivated people to become advocates for change in their communities: in education, jobs and housing!

~ Door prizes ~
~ Light refreshments ~
~ Childcare will be provided ~

More About Dr. Salvatore!

Nick Salvatore is the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of American Studies at Cornell University.  He did his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley and came to Cornell in 1981.  He is the author of Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982), which received the Bancroft Prize in History and the John H. Dunning Prize, and We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber (1996), which received the New England History Association's Outstanding Book Prize.  His third biography,Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America(2005) examines the life of one of the most influential preachers of his generation in the Afro-Baptist tradition.  He teaches course in nineteenth- and twentieth century American history. He and his wife, Ann Sullivan, live in Ithaca, and have two daughters, Gabriella and Nora, and two grandsons, Joseph and Oscar.

Mission of the Village at Ithaca:

The Village at Ithaca is primarily a volunteer community-based organization advocating for equity and excellence in Ithaca’s public schools by developing strategic community relationships, programs, and services to ensure that students, particularly Black, Latino, and low-income students, consistently meet or exceed local and New York state standards of achievement.  Since 2002, this grass roots initiative has been recognized for its efforts to address systemic issues and promote greater community involvement in public education.