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Coalition pushing for criminal justice reform Martin Desmarais

While Boston is a majority-minority city, the majority of the city’s payroll goes to whites, who occupy the majority of the highest-paid positions in city government. (Banner photo)

Majority of high-paying city jobs dominated by whites Yawu Miller For people of color, the school department is a mirror image of the rest of the city. While whites make up the majority of the employees in the schools with 57 percent, people of color make up the majority at the highest level of pay, with 53 percent of those jobs.

But outside of the school department, the highest-paying jobs are monopolized by whites, who occupy 220 — 88 percent — of the 250 top-paying jobs in city government. Those numbers, compiled by City Councilor Charles Yancey, do not include overtime or salaries at quasi-public agencies like the Boston Rede-

velopment Authority, the Boston Housing Authority or the Boston Water and Sewer Commission.

Of the 12 percent of the top-paying jobs held by people of color, 7 percent are held by African Americans, 4 percent by Latinos and 2 percent by Asians.

“The numbers are very disturbing,” says Yancey, who is in the midst of a series of council meetings on hiring and promotions in the city. “In the vast majority of city departments people of color are dramatically underrepresented in the top-paid positions. It represents a challenge for the new administration as well as for the City Council.”

The figures Yancey has culled

are as of Dec. 31, 2013, and do not reflect any of the promotions and new hires that have taken place during the administration of newly-elected Mayor Martin Walsh.

On the campaign trail, Walsh pledged that his administration would reflect the city’s diversity at every level. While the numbers culled by Yancey suggest that many city departments have a long way to go, Walsh said he would honor his promise.

“We’re going to stick to what I promised to do as a candidate — to make sure the city government reflected the population of the city of Boston at every level,” he said.

Walsh said he has ordered a jobs, continued to page 19

Prison reform advocates in the state are gearing up for a busy month. The Jobs Not Jails Coalition has a Boston rally planned on April 26 and will return four days later to present a petition to Massachusetts Legislature — all the efforts targeted to show decision-makers the groundswell of support to change prison policy.

The Jobs Not Jails campaign is rallying around estimates from Gov. Deval Patrick’s office that the state will spend $2 billion by 2020 to build 10,000 new prison units, as well as $150 million each year to fill them. In addition, Massachusetts has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world and more than 60 percent of prisoners released from the jails in the state re-offend within three years. All these stats are facts that Jobs Not Jails coalition members decry as unacceptable.

Jobs Not Jails is pushing for a reduction in prison spending and funneling the resulting savings into jobs and employment programs that can help the formerly incarcerated during re-entry into the working world and help reduce recidivism rates in the state.

What coalition members are calling for is not unprecedented because others states — including New York, Washington and Texas — have overhauled their criminal justice systems and thus reduced prison populations, closed prisons and saved taxpayers billions of dollars.

The prison reforms that drive Jobs Not Jails include: ending mandatory minimum drug sentences; diversion of low-level drug offenders to treatment even before trial; eliminating counter-productive “collateral sanctions” such as an automatic driver’s license suspension for drug offenses, and

high fees for probation, parole, court costs and telephone charges; reforming the systems of parole and probation; bail reform; restoring educational programs including vocational education as well as college-level courses in prisons and jails.

According to Steve O’Neill, executive director of Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement, many of these reforms are already on the table in Massachusetts, so the hope is that the rally and petition can help push legislators to move forward on them.

O’Neill said that his Worcester-based organization, known as EPOCA, which has 300 members, 2,500 associate members and is a lead organizer of Jobs Not Jails, has been unable to garner sufficient attention from lawmakers in the past. Bringing together organizations from across the state was done with the hope to have more of an impact with greater numbers.

“Any kind of issues that we would raise that would cost state money we would get blowback from the Legislature, and they say there is no money,” O’Neill said.

“To win those kinds of causes, the really deep-seated, deep-rooted flaws in our system, we knew it was going to take something much louder than our voices. It was going to take a much louder public outcry.”

The Jobs Not Jails rally set for Boston Common on April 26 is planned to be the first big demonstration of this year. Jobs Not Jails brings together over 80 organizations from across the state, so organizers expect at least 4,000 people to attend. The groups range from nonprofits that support the formerly incarcerated to family service providers to reprisons, continued to page 9

Carvalho wins 5th Suffolk by wide swath Yawu Miller Political neophyte Evandro Carvalho cleared the field in the five-person Democratic primary special election for the 5th Suffolk District seat formerly occupied

by Carlos Henriquez, securing 49 percent of the 1,957 ballots cast.

Carvalho, a 32-year-old attorney who was born in Cape Verde, drew heavily on support from the district’s Cape Verdean community, holding a more-than 400vote lead over the next-highest vote-getter, Karen Charles Pe-

terson. With no Republican on the ballot, he will most likely run unopposed in the April 29 general election.

Political activist Barry Lawton came in third with 190 votes, Jennifer Johnson followed with 151 and Roy Owens netted 89 votes.

Excitement began building in the Carvalho campaign offices, next to Restaurante Cesaria on Bowdoin Street, as the campaign’s tallies from polling places began coming in at 8 p.m. Tuesday of last week.

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Roxbury woman returns to marathon for girls program

Kai Grant was two blocks from the finish line at the Boston Marathon last year when the first of two bombs went off. This year, she intends to finish the race while raising funds for an organization she founded that supports teen girls. (Kassmin Williams photo) Kassmin Williams Last year’s tragic end to the Boston Marathon left Roxbury resident and entrepreneur Kai Grant shaken, but that wasn’t enough to keep her from taking

on the Boston Marathon again this year.

Grant has been given a number from the Boston Athletic Association and will take on the entire 26.2-mile route on April 21 as part of her “I Will Finish My

Race Campaign” to raise funds for her organization Diamond Girls Boston.

Grant was about two blocks away from the finish line when the two bombs exploded and prevented her from finishing her run in the Boston Marathon last year.

“You didn’t want to think it was a bomb. You wanted to think it was cannons. You wanted to think it was celebratory, some type of salute,” Grant said.

For the past three years, Grant has participated in the race running a half marathon to raise funds for Diamond Girls Boston, which works to build self-sufficiency in teenage girls ages 11 to 17 by promoting entrepreneurial thought and action.

Grant described her decision to participate again as “a battle.”

The founder of Lip-Hop Cosmetics didn’t make a definite decision until last December when she saw a news segment highlighting another person who decided participate again.

“For me, it was a struggle,” Grant said. “I had to really say ‘I need to do this. I need to make a spectacle of myself.’”

Grant lived in the South End for a part of her childhood and grew up knowing the Boston Marathon as a part life as a Bostonian. Her thoughts about the marathon centered on togetherness and celebration.

“You feel the spirit. You feel

camaraderie. You feel support when people are rooting for you and cheering you on,” Grant said.

Today, traveling down Boylston Street brings different thoughts.

“Every time I go down Boylston something ignites in me,” Grant said. “It’s not fear that overcomes me. It’s just an overwhelming feeling. It’s just something that doesn’t sit right. It’s not something that feels good.”

Upon hearing the bombs and seeing people scatter, blood splattered and the injuries, Grant said she felt guilt, anger, and a sense of responsibility for the family and

Sixteen individuals have been victims of homicide in Boston since January, according to data collected by Boston.com.

“When you experience that level of trauma it’s just as devastating or more devastating because it happens on such a regular basis that you can become numb to it. You can become hardened to it and you can lose hope, “Grant said. “A lot of these girls have fathers, uncles, cousins, friends and brothers that have had traumatic acts happen to them which means [the girls are] traumatized.”

Grant said dealing with trauma has organically become a

“Every time I go down Boylston something ignites in me.”

— Kai Grant friends who attended to root her on.

“You go to different countries and this happens every day,” Grant said. “This is nothing that people [in those countries] have not experienced in their every day lives and then to have been that close to death and then to not be hurt the same way others were hurt, you feel guilt to a degree.”

Grant connects the trauma she felt after the bombings to the trauma she believes many of the girls in her program experience and the trauma she feels as a Roxbury resident due the violent acts happening in and around the community.

part of her Diamond Girls curriculum.

For Grant, running the marathon this year is a way to overcome her trauma, bring healing to the community and set an example for her group of girls, some of who have shown concern over Grant’s decision to participate.

Grant says running long distances is an act that goes beyond one’s own strength and that participating will help her group go above their own limits.

“You’re giving them ammunition to say ‘I can go beyond and I can tap into my super powers and really do something spectacular,’” Grant said.

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Program preps minorities for careers in academia

By Kenneth J. Cooper As he was finishing his doctorate at Brown University, Gene Andrew Jarrett received job offers from Boston University and the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2002, Jarrett chose Maryland to start his teaching career.

Five years later, just after Jarrett won tenure there, the school that he previously spurned reached out again. This time, the offer of a tenured professorship lured him to BU, where he has been chairman of the English Department since 2011.

Jarrett was the target of intense academic competition in part because faculty all-stars groomed him

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as an undergraduate at Princeton University — philosopher Cornell West, biographer Arnold Rampersad and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison.

But Jarrett was also a top prospect because, while at Princeton, he received a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship designed to increase the number of college professors from underrepresented groups.

“In addition to those individuals I was interacting with, the Mellon program had a great impact on providing the resources I needed to prepare,” Jarrett said.

Diversifying the nation’s faculty remains a slow work in progress, but the Mellon program has made a significant contribution toward that goal.

In the 25 years since the Mellon Foundation launched the program, almost 4,200 students have received the fellowship, and about a third have earned doctorates or are working toward them.

Those figures mean that in addition to 509 doctorates minted, another 670 are in the process of acquiring the teaching degrees. Most, but not all, are of color.

Besides Jarrett, former Mellon Mays Fellows teaching in Boston include Zine Magubane, a sociology professor at Boston College; Marisol Negrón, a professor of American Studies and Latino Studies at UMass Boston; and Catherine Espaillat, an astronomy professor at BU. “The goal of this program is to

help bring more diversity and diverse perspectives to the American professoriat,” said Armando Bengochea, who directs the program for the Mellon Foundation in New York.

“That’s what we’re interested in — changing the face of the academy.”

The challenge of rounding out a predominately white male faculty surfaced in the late 1960s, when black students demanded that colleges offer black studies courses and hire professors to teach them. By

pipeline problem. The first fellows started in 1989. They were drawn from 19 elite schools and the historically black schools in the United Negro College Fund.

The number of participating schools has grown to 42, including Harvard, Wellesley College, Williams College and Smith College in Massachusetts. Together, the 42 schools and the UNCF select more than 200 fellows each year.

The fellowship pays for a small stipend during students’ junior and senior years, travel to academic conferences, two summer research projects and regular social gatherings to get to know faculty members and their roles better.

The Mellon Foundation started with undergraduates, Bengochea explained, because “you needed to

“The goal of this program is to help bring more diversity and diverse perspectives to the American professoriat.”

— Armando Bengochea

the 1980s, some administrators had adopted faculty diversity as a goal, but indifference or resistance in academic departments and a shortage of doctorates of color stymied progress.

For example, a decade of affirmative action efforts had not increased the number of black professors at either Harvard University or MIT, the Boston Globe found in 1983.

In 1988, William Bowen, a former president of Princeton who was then president of the Mellon Foundation, decided to take on the

begin to socialize students at the undergraduate level to even imagine what a career in the professoriat would look like.”

Besides undergraduate support, successful applicants can receive assistance as graduate students and junior faculty members. Those who enter a doctoral program have part of their undergraduate debt repaid.

Bengochea estimates the program provides $10,000 to $17,000 in direct funding to each fellow over the years.

Jarrett, for instance, received Mellon funding to enable him to take

Armando Bengochea a year off to finish writing his first book. That publication was a key to his winning tenure at Maryland.

“This is a program that is unlike any other program because we support students comprehensively from the undergraduate years all the way through graduate school and then, to a certain extent, into their early career prospects,” Bengochea said.

Foundations don’t always fund programs over the long haul, as Mellon has with the fellowships. But it takes years for an aspiring professor to complete a doctorate.

The Mellon Foundation has had the patience to wait for its investment to pay off and has started seeing the returns. Around the country, former fellows include department chairmen like Jarrett and other tenured professors whose teaching and research are shaping what the next generations learn.

There are more professors to come, because 600 to 700 fellows are enrolled in doctoral programs in any given year.

“In a few years’ time, we’re really are expecting kind of an explosion of these students onto the academic job market,” Bengochea said.

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A lost opportunity to tackle legislative misconduct With lightning speed the Massachusetts House recently approved stronger measures against domestic violence. Unfortunately, the legislative enthusiasm waned and there has been no change in the rules of conduct for representatives. There is still no requirement for the summary expulsion from the House of any member convicted of a misdemeanor. Consequently, the sudden sensitivity for the long ignored rights of abused women does not launder the loss of reputation the House suffered because of the unjustified eviction of Carlos Henriquez.

The decision to elect an interim representative from the district imposes an inconvenience to the community. The dates for an interim election and the normal every two year ritual collide. The preliminary special election was on April Fool’s Day and the final election will take place on Tuesday, April 29. However, those who want to be candidates in the regular election for representative from the 5th Suffolk must file their qualifying signatures by April 29.

Another development that could cause greater

confusion, according to his lawyer, is that Henriquez is eligible for parole on April 14. Henriquez has no prior convictions or restraining orders, and there are no reports that he has been anything other than a model prisoner. Now the Parole Board has to determine whether its members have the courage to begin the process of undoing a major injustice. At any rate, Henriquez will be released from jail no later than mid-July.

It would have been more politically positive for the residents of the 5th Suffolk to protest the arbitrary removal of their representative, whether or not they supported him. Then those who objected to Henriquez’s performance as their representative could mobilize a significant campaign for a candidate of their choice. Judging from the results from the primary election, that candidate might well be Evandro Carvalho, who garnered 49 percent of the vote in the five-candidate race.

The Legislature has failed to establish standards of personal behavior for their members. The people should vigorously oppose the arbitrary removal from office of those whom they have elected.

The monetization of the voting process Republican sycophants gathered at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas to audition for Sheldon Adelson’s political support only a few days before the U.S. Supreme Court published its opinion in the McCutcheon case. The 5-4 decision lifted any restrictions on the amount of money an individual can contribute in an election cycle. Adelson had reportedly contributed $93 million in the 2012 presidential campaign, and potential candidates for 2016 were seeking his financial support.

Adelson being in the market for a new candidate to buy and the Supreme Court reduction of political contribution limits provided a convergence of the two events that made it easier for Americans to visualize the monetization of the voting process. From the days of the Founding Fathers, voting was considered to be a privilege

of white men of means. Former male slaves did not get the right to vote until 1870 and women, both white and black, were barred from the polls until 1920.

Conservatives are now somewhat accommodating for blacks and women who become affluent, but they have never relented in their political oppression of the poor. The wealthy are concerned this group has a natural interest in supporting costly government programs. The conservative’s strategy is to provide funds to finance disinformation in order to confuse political issues, as well as to obstruct the process of voting for the poor.

Those with limited wealth must rethink the American Dream and fight to secure their political interests. Otherwise, the American Dream will be available only to a few.

What Martin Desmarais did not report on in the March 27, 2014 edition of the Banner (“School Department Intervenes at Madison”) is the type of intervention that is to take place. The intrusive and disruptive nature of the school department’s proposed actions is a part of an ongoing process of degrading the quality of education; poisoning the atmosphere of trust and learning among the students, staff, faculty and community that is essential for learning and preparing young men and women to be a productive part of society.

The headmaster of Madison, who has been in place less than six months, without an assistant headmaster, discipline office, critical staff or resources, prior to the public announcement by the superintendent, was not consulted or informed that her authority to do the job for which

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OPINION McCutcheon ruling is another blow to democracy Pam Wilmot

The Roberts Court, in its 5-4 “McCutcheon v. FEC” decision last week continued its drive to give Americans a government of, by and for big money. While doing so, it demonstrated once again just how out of touch with political reality it is.

The court found that big money in politics and the influence and access to elected officials that it obtains is not sufficiently corrupting to trump the so-called First Amendment rights of the richest Americans. Only 664 individuals hit the $123,000 aggregate contribution limit that the court found to be unconstitutional. Now this select group of ultra-wealthy individuals will be able to give millions of dollars directly to federal candidates and parties, effectively drowning out the voices of average Americans.

Thanks to the decision, a politician can now solicit a $3.6 million check for joint party and federal candidates’ committees from a single donor, consigning to background noise the hundreds of millions of Americans who can’t afford to give more than $5, $10 or $100 to the candidates of their choice.

The $3.6 million figure is detailed in Justice Breyer’s excellent dissent and results from joint fundraising committees transferring money to favored candidates. The $123,000 aggregate cap that the court struck down previously limited such schemes, and had been upheld in previous court decisions for that reason — it protects the efficacy of the $2,600 limit on donations to a single candidate which the court continues to sanction, at least for now. But the Court also gave hints that more campaign finance restrictions may fall in the future. In fact, although not specifically overturned by McCutcheon, Massachusetts state aggregate limits will no longer be enforced, according to the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance.

The McCutcheon case turned on the Roberts Court’s hope- Combined with the 2010 lessly naïve definition of corrup- “Citizens United v. Federal tion which it found to exclude Election Commission” buying special access and influ- decision that opened the ence. But as anyone involved in floodgates for unlimited politics knows, whether in Wash- money from independent ington, at statehouses, or at city political groups in elections, halls, major donors routinely the McCutcheon decision is get special access to the officials, a devastating blow to our their lobbyists are invited to help democracy. write and amend laws that impact their businesses, and they are rewarded with favorable policy and jobs. The system has already helped produce the current political deadlock and inability to solve our nation’s critical problems. The ruling will make it even worse.

In addition to defying common sense, the court’s conclusion also defies the historical meaning of the term “corruption”, according to Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig. After scouring the founding documents of our country, Lessig concludes that corruption encompassed most often meant “improper dependence” to the framers and not just quid pro quo arrangements (think bribery), as the court ruled.

The framers wanted Congress to be dependent on the people alone and would likely be appalled at its current dependence on big donations — a dependence that is sure to increase as limits are lifted.

Combined with the 2010 “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission” decision that opened the floodgates for unlimited money from independent political groups in elections, the McCutcheon decision is a devastating blow to our democracy. Passing a constitutional amendment is the only definitive way to change the ruling, and thankfully momentum for an amendment is building. Resolutions calling on Congress to pass a constitutional amendment to limit money in elections have been approved by voters, state legislatures and local governments in 16 states and hundreds of localities coastto-coast. The Massachusetts legislature passed a resolution in 2012 and 1 million Massachusetts voters approved a similar request on a 2012 advisory ballot question by an overwhelming 79 percent. More than a dozen proposals for such an amendment are currently pending before Congress.

Americans must stand up to restore our democracy of, by, and for the people, not just the wealthy special interests, by pressing for a constitutional amendment, small donor public financing, and better disclosure of political donors. These reforms are necessary to curb the activist and politically naïve Court and to bring our democracy back in line with the founding principle of one person one vote.

Pam Wilmot is the executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts.

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Do you think it’s important for blacks to serve in government?

Yes. We need representation. The only people who know about our everyday experience is black people. It’s very important to have a voice in government.

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Yes. Because we have our own identity. We’re not yet fully represented in government, and we’re losing a lot of our rights.

Yes. We live in a democracy. Government is supposed to be the voice of the people. Black people should be represented at every level.

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Dr. Nneka Mobisson-Etuk Dr. Nneka Mobisson-Etuk, executive director of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has been named to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders class of 2014.

According to the forum, the 213 individuals selected for the 2014 class are all under the age of 40 and have achieved their success young; they’ve demonstrated a commitment to serving society at large; they have a recognized record of extraordinary achievement, substantial leadership experience, and there’s a clear indication that this will continue for the rest of their career; and each has an impeccable public record and good standing in their community.

Currently, Mobisson-Etuk is leading the Cambridge-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement on the ground partnerships in Africa to reduce maternal, infant and under-age-5 mortality. This work, anchored by quality improvement processes, is underway in Ghana and Malawi, and is in the planning stages in Ethiopia.

She also oversees the institute’s

ongoing engagement with teams in South Africa to increase the numbers of HIV-positive individuals receiving life-saving medications and to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV. More recently, Mobisson-Etuk has led the institute’s work to support the development of the national healthcare quality strategy with the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria.

Prior to her time with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Mo-

bisson-Etuk worked with the World Bank. She was vice president of community health and population health management at the Connecticut Hospital Association. She has completed her pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, earned a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from MIT, a master’s degree in public health from Emory University, and an medical degree and MBA from Yale University.

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Boston joins global climate initiative

MBTA revamps Blue Hill Ave. T stop plans

Boston plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent in the next six years, and hopes to make an 80 percent reduction by 2050. To achieve this goal, the 2014 Climate Action Plan Steering Committee was created by the mayor’s office and includes members from many of Boston’s industries.

Boston’s CO2 emission is about 6.8 million tons annually. Half of this city’s emissions are from commercial buildings, and 28 percent from transportation. A comparably sized city — Washington, D.C. — produces 10.5 million tons of CO2 annually, 60 percent from commercial buildings, and 24 percent from transportation.

“Boston, through a series of climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, is already a demonstrated leader and we have much to learn from them.” said C40 Chair Mayor Eduardo Paes of Rio de Janeiro last week in a statement announcing Boston’s membership in the C40 Global Climate Leadership Group.

The C40 is a worldwide network of cities committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the local level in order to make a global impact on climate change.

Created in 2005, C40 is partners with the Cities Program of President Clinton’s Climate Initiative.

When the MBTA last announced its plans for the Blue Hill Avenue station in 2009, the excitement over the project was not shared by the neighboring residents.

Apprehension toward the project arose from fears that the construction, with its jackhammers and floodlights, and the proposed station’s direct abuttal to backyards, would depreciate property values.

The MBTA decided to keep the location, but in light of residents’ concerns, changed the station design to be less disruptive to abutting homes. They are doing this by using an island design to keep the station narrower.

According to MBTA’s website, vacant lots in the area might be appropriated to create a parking lot and transportation driveways.

The MBTA is hosting a public meeting at the Mildred Avenue School Auditorium on April 10 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. to discuss plans for the Blue Hill Avenue station on the Fairmount Line.

are not tenured, are paid far less nowadays than their tenured colleagues at public universities nationwide and tend to receive no health insurance or retirement plan.

A report from Adjunct Action, a member of the Service Employees International Union, shows that in the Boston area, close to 70 percent of instructors were not on the tenure track.

Last week, At-Large Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley’s resolution to support good jobs for adjunct professors passed unanimously in the City Council.

On Jan. 13, the Cambridge City Council passed a similar resolution, which calls for universities in the Boston area to support the right of adjunct professors to unionize without interference.

T h e s e r e s o l u t i o n s b e n efit thousands of non-union and non-tenured educators who work in the Boston area, particularly at public universities, since new legislation has been introduced to require federal oversight and for the schools to demonstrate accountability for grant money.

Girls Club in Dorchester.

This donation was one of 10 such donations that the soft drink company gave to Boys and Girls Clubs around the country to support healthy lifestyle programs, such as sports and physical fitness programs.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston is a nonprofit entity whose mission is to help young people, particularly needy children, to build character and to realize their full potential as responsible citizens and leaders.

Swan boats to launch soon Spring is in the air and the swan boats will hit the water

at the Boston Public Garden Lagoon on April 19.

The Paget family, swan boat owners since 1877, and Mayor Martin Walsh will host the opening of the season with an event during which the boats will be launched.

Special guests to the event will be students from Ellis Mendell Elementary School and Chittick Elementary School. The students have been drawing swan boats in their art classes, and some of their better works will be on display in City Hall for four weeks beginning April 28.

Swan boat season runs until Sept. 21.

Robert Paget, an Irish shipbuilder who immigrated to Boston, founded the family business.

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Parcel 3 developers secure anchor tenant Yawu Miller BJ’s Wholesale Club has signed a letter of intent for a 90,000-squarefoot space in Parcel 3, a move that gives the P-3 Partners LLC development team the needed anchor tenant for its million-square-foot Roxbury development project.

“All of the business terms are agreed to,” said Geoffrey Feldman, vice president of Greater Boston for Feldco Development Corp., which is partnering with Elma Lewis Corp. on the development of the Lower Roxbury parcel, located across Tremont Street from the Boston Police Department headquarters.

The letter of intent was announced Monday night at a meeting of the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee. Committee members congratulated members of the Parcel 3 development team for the commitment, which will allow the project to secure funding for construction.

“We’re happy for them,” said the oversight committee’s chairman, Darnell Williams. “This bodes well for their project.”

The acquisition of an anchor tenant gives the Parcel 3 development team a needed shot in the arm for the project. The team’s plans for the project include 400,000 square feet of large retail space, 50,000 square feet of shops fronting Tremont Street, 300 units of market-rate apartments, a 175-room hotel and a 21,000-square-foot facility for the National Center of Afro-American Artists.

Feldco Development will develop the retail and housing space, while Elma Lewis will develop the museum space.

The team’s plans for the retail building calls for BJ’s to occupy the second level of a three-story building. Space for smaller retailers will be available at street level and larger retailers will be located on the third level.

The project will also include a 1,600-car garage.

Feldman said the construction on the retail space could begin within the next year and the project could be finished by 2017.

The Parcel 3 developers had previously courted Northeastern University and Partners Healthcare as potential anchor tenants for their development.

One of the largest undeveloped parcels of land in Roxbury, Parcel 3 has been vacant since the 1970s, when the state took and cleared land in the Southwest Corridor for its planned extension of Interstate 95. While the highway project was derailed by community opposition, the demolitions left wide swaths of land fallow for decades.

Dudley Square Main Streets Executive Director Joyce Stanley said the development will help revitalize

the long-vacant stretch of Tremont Street.

“I think it will be great for that area of the city,” she said.

She noted that BJ’s, which caters to shoppers who purchase food items in bulk, could compete with local businesses like Tropical Foods, which is expanding into a new location on nearby Melnea Cass Boulevard.

“The question is, what is BJ’s going to do for the community?” she said. “What will they pay in wages? Will they hire local managers?”

Members of the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee met at the Dudley Library on Monday. The P-3 Partners LLC development team announced an agreement with BJ’s Wholesale Club to lease 90,000 square feet on Parcel 3. (Banner photo)

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ligious organizations to lawyers’ guilds.

On April 30, a smaller group will go to the State House and publicly present a petition calling for criminal justice reform, halting the construction of new prison units until reform is in place and re-directing the $2 billion planned for prison expansion into a jobs program.

According to O’Neill the petition drive is on track to hit at least 25,000 signatures by the end of this month.

The combination of the Jobs Not Jails supporting organizations and those signing the petition are numbers that organizers believe will be enough to finally make lawmakers take notice, as well as back upcoming lobbying efforts as the Legislature winds down for the year.

“This may be a historic movement where you can push through some much broader changes,” O’Neill said.

“We are hoping that it does catch their attention,” added Benito Vega, president of the EPOCA Board of Directors. “The ones that are not on board, once they see these thousands of people at the State House, they will understand the support behind this.”

Andrea James, a lead organizer for the Roxbury-based Families for Justice and Healing, said that her organization supports Jobs Not Jails because its aims are in line with her group’s efforts to raise awareness about the rising incarceration rates of women and to lobby for criminal justice policy changes.

“It is creating a platform for those of us that are doing legislative advocacy type of work to really have our voices heard,” James said. “It is a no-brainer for us because it is what we are talking about. We want to use our voices as formerly incarcerated women across the Commonwealth to say we can do better here in Massachusetts.”

She has high expectations for the April 26 rally as well.

“What is most important is that the Jobs not Jails rally is going to bring together all the constituents from across the Commonwealth who really believe we have to stop incarcerating people right now,” James added. “It is bringing people together to take a really clear look at the facts about what has to happen.”

Another group involved in Jobs Not Jails is the Grove Hall-based Boston Workers’ Alliance. The organization provides free services to those in need of employment and Criminal Offender Record Information assistance. While the Boston Workers’ Alliance is a service organization focusing on employment, it also does advocacy work and was part of the push that helped enact CORI reform.

Phillip Reason, the alliance’s director of organizing, said that what is important about Jobs Not Jails and the upcoming rally is that the efforts are educating people throughout the state and not just those who have been incarcerated or organizations that support ex-prisoners.

“Something like this campaign reaches out to those who have not been to prisons and helps them understand that building more prisons is not economically sound.

It does not make sense,” Reason

Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Donald Berwick (fourth from left) recently toured the Suffolk County House of Correction. (l-r) Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department staff Rachelle Steinberg, Valerie Barsom, Dennis Guilfoyle; Berwick; Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins; staffer David Marsh; Superintendent of the House of Correction Yolanda Smith; and Superintendent In-Chief Michael Harris. said. “This issue touches everybody.”

He also believes the petition can have a big impact on lawmakers.

“Once the legislators see the number of registered voters and see all the voters in their districts that have signed on to this we are hoping that folks will have some conversations about some of the bills that come across their desk in the House and the Senate and they can be voted on favorably,” Reason added. “We have a host of bills coming through the house this summer and we believe some of these bills can go on to remedy, some of these issues that we are talking about.”

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As campaign operative Linda Monteiro entered the figures showing a commanding lead into a laptop computer, campaign field director Joao DePina shouted “We won!”

While Carvalho is not the first Cape Verdean elected to the State House (he’s the fourth, coming after former reps Robert Fortes, D-Mattapan, Shirley Gomes, R-Harwich, and current Rep. Vinny deMacedo, R-Plymouth) Carvalho is the first elected from Boston’s sizable Cape Verdean electorate, which is geographically centered in the 5th Suffolk District.

Former mayoral candidate John Barros, who is now the city’s chief economic development officer, said Carvalho’s victory has special significance for the recent wave of Cape Verdean immigrants who arrived in Boston in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

“It’s taken a generation to get to the point where a Cape Verdean could be elected to office,” he said.

“But this is not just a victory for the Cape Verdean community. It’s a victory for every young person in our community who’s aiming to be something, do something and give back to the community.

That’s what Evandro stands for.”

Barros and other Carvalho supporters stressed that his voters came from the black and white communities in the district, as well as the Cape Verdean community. Carvalho’s campaign manager, Hodari Cail, is African American, as are many of his supporters. But the atmosphere in Cesaria, the neighborhood’s largest Cape Verdean restaurant, was decidedly criolo on Tuesday night.

“Viva Cabo Verde!” his supporters shouted as he took to the stage at the restaurant with Cape Verdean funaná playing on the loudspeakers.

Carvalho attributed his win to the hard work of his campaign volunteers and the appeal of his life story. Carvalho arrived in the United States at age 15 and graduated from Madison Park

High School, UMass Amherst and Howard University School of Law. “I was surprised, but people connected with my story,” Carvalho said Tuesday evening after the official results came in from City Hall. “It’s really humbling to be in the position I’m in. People helped me out so much. Now the work is beginning.”

Organizers on Carvalho’s campaign said their campaign’s ground game won in the end. Campaign organizers said they focused on identifying voters through phone banks and door-knocking in the weeks leading up to the election.

Carvalho’s ubiquitous signs and the campaign literature volunteers dropped at voters’ doors was also helpful, according to volunteer Adelia Rocha.

“The majority of the people I called already knew him from the signs and the lit drops,” she said.

“They would immediately say they knew him and they would vote for him.”

Monteiro said the campaign contacted nearly 2,000 voters.

On Election Day, the focus was on turning out the voters who had pledged their support for Carvalho.

“We didn’t put too many people at the polls because we needed people to get out the vote,” Monteiro said. ”We were calling people up to 7:45.”

At 7:49 p.m., with little more than 10 minutes to go before the polls closed, volunteer Priscilla Brandão found herself knocking on the door of a voter who lived across the street from the Upham’s Corner Health Center.

“I watched her cross the street to vote, then I went to knock on the next door,” Brandão said.

Nomination papers for the November state election are due April 29, the same day as the general balloting happens in the special election for the 5th. Carvalho says he plans to run for re-election.

Henriquez, who was expelled from the Legislature following his misdemeanor conviction on two counts of assault, is rumored to be interested in running to regain the seat as well. Henriquez will be eligible for parole on April 14.

Adalberto Teixeira, Joao DePina and Linda Monteiro tally votes in the campaign office of Evandro Carvalho. Carvalho won the five-way Democratic primary for the 5th Suffolk District seat with 49 percent of the vote. (Banner photo)

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Entrepreneurs set to launch Dorchester business lab

(l-r) John Maudlin and Travis Lee co-founded the Fields Corner Business Lab, which is on the top floor of the historic Lenane Building in Dorchester. The business lab offers small private offices, dedicated work stations and flexible work spaces, as well as office amenities for small businesses. (Banner photo) Martin Desmarais Set to open later this month and modeled after business lab concepts very common in the high tech startup world in Silicon Valley and Cambridge, the Fields Corner Business Lab contains about a dozen small private offices, several conference rooms, private work stations and flexible work areas, as well as office amenities including a printer/copier room, reception area and a kitchen.

The lab takes up the entire top floor

of the historic Lenane Building in the heart of Fields Corner and has 8,000 square feet of office space available.

As founders Travis Lee and John Maudlin emphasize, the advantage of a business lab is that small businesses and startups are able to have an office space out of the home with access to all the necessary office amenities, but without having to rent or lease an entire office space to do so — which offers a drastic reduction in business costs.

The Fields Corner Business Lab

is listing private offices starting at $450 a month, dedicated workstations at $300 a month and flexible workspace at $100 a month.

“We want to create a place here where you don’t have to work from home or work in a coffee shop, but you don’t have to spend a lot of money to get the wireless, the coffee and the environment to do work and on top of that you are going to get to be working next to people that are doing creative things,” Lee said.

“For $100 a month, you have eight

square feet of space, super high-speed wireless Internet, free coffee and free copying and printing and three conference spaces — for $100 a month.”

Though the lab borrows it’s concept from the small business incubator model common in the high-tech industry, Lee said it is not just for tech startups. In fact, Lee says the lab will most often be used by small nonprofits and small businesses that serve Dorchester.

“Low cost may be one of the greatest values we can offer to our Dorchester-based businesses, it is not the only thing, but it may be one of the most important things so we have done everything we can to keep prices at a point that are far below, far below, almost any of those other competitors around — so that we can get people in the door that can’t get in those doors. That is the differentiation I think for most,” Lee said. “This is the first product of this kind in Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan.”

According to Lee and Maudlin, some of the entrepreneurs who have expressed interest in the business lab space include a real estate agent, a nonprofit organization that works with children, a financial services consultant and an attorney.

They say they expect most of the interest will be from Dorchester residents, but they also expect to have some interest from entrepreneurs planning to provide services to people in Dorchester.

Both Lee and Maudlin are confident that the lab will fill up quickly.

Six of the private offices are already set to be filled with several others asking them to hold the space for them.

Maudlin said they have interacted with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the Boston Foundation and Fields Corner Main Streets and all have expressed support for their efforts and said they were excited about the project.

“Obviously we are optimistic,” Maudlin said. “In six months, I hope that there is going to be a waiting list of people that want to get in here.

“We don’t have that much space.

“The core of my practice is community-based lawyering, so I think lawyers should have a presence in the community that they work in and to that end they should also provide services for those constituents and the communities that they are located in.

I really want to be where the people are,” Gonzalez said.

Gonzales added that he is also interested in being able to connect with some of the other businesses and entrepreneurs that will be in the lab, which makes it more appealing than just opening up his own more traditional solo office.

“I really want a collaborative work environment and this space is certainly conducive to it,” he commented. “I was sold from the day I came here.”

Lee, who has lived in Dorchester for 10 years, has a background in real estate development. He is the managing partner of TLee Development, which recently bought the Lenane Building. According to Lee, his company is working with current tenants in the four-story building to remain in place, but the idea of the business lab came up as a way to utilize the vacant fourth floor.

Maudlin, who recently moved to Dorchester, has a background in marketing and financial services. He spent 2013 working in India helping train startup entrepreneurs in labs and incubators similar to what he is hoping to do with the Fields Corner Business Lab. In addition to office space and amenities, the lab will also offer access to training and coaching for small businesses, as well as a number of events to encourage collaboration with other entrepreneurs using the lab.

Maudlin said he has seen how collaboration with others can be a benefit to entrepreneurs in business labs and he hopes the same will be true for the effort in Fields Corner.

“We are hoping that the combination of nonprofits or small startups and entrepreneurs will really create an energy about the people that are in this space that will collaborate on

“For $100 a month, you have eight square feet of space, super high-speed wireless Internet, free coffee and free copying and printing and three conference spaces — for $100 a month.”

—Travis Lee It is not going to take too many for this to be really vibrant, so in six months I hope that there is growing demand for spaces like this, that others are opening in Dorchester, and maybe even we are playing a part in that. That is what I would love to see,” Maudlin added.

Omar S. Gonzales, a general practice attorney who specializes in personal injury and immigration law and some criminal defense work, is a small businessman that is already sold on the Fields Corner Business Lab. Gonzales is based in Lynn, but he wants to expand and be able to offer his services to Dorchester residents.

He plans to rent one of the private office spaces in the lab.

some really great projects that will benefit Dorchester,” he said. “We want to foster a space for collaboration to happen.”

Lee and Maudlin put up the $50,000 it has taken to get the lab ready to open and they said it is budgeted to completely sustain itself, as long as there is enough interest to fill up most of the office space. They have no plans at this time — or need — for outside funding for the lab to open or stay open.

“That is all we need. We are not saying to everybody, ‘Hey guys we’ve got a great idea that soon as we raise the capital we will be able to move forward with it.’ We are saying, ‘Here it comes,’” Lee said.

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Blacks say parent attention key to education success George White The “lack of parental involvement” is the biggest issue affecting black students’ quality of education.

That is one of the major findings in a new national survey of African Americans on factors in their quality of life. The survey, sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Ebony magazine, polled 1,005 African Americans on their mood and on issues related to income, housing, health care, relationships, race and education.

Responses to education-related questions made up a large part of the summary of survey findings.

When asked to identify the biggest issues in education, about a fifth of

tion.” About a third said the country is “losing ground” in education and 28 percent said that there has been no appreciable change in educational quality.

Conducted in February, the survey results were released after the launch of two new Obama Administration initiatives on behalf of young people of color. In January, President Obama appointed leaders in education, philanthropy and law to serve on a commission for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. The president is also seeking support from foundations and businesses for “My Brother’s Keeper,” a campaign he announced on February 27 to improve the ed-

ment” as the biggest education issue, Thompson said “that doesn’t surprise me [because] everyone has a stake in education and a vested interest in education.”

Thompson said African-American focus groups told the foundation last year that education ranked second only to job security as the most important issue to blacks overall. In response, the foundation in August made a request for grant proposals for “innovative” initiatives to engage families in education.

“We received more than 1,200

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applications, which broke all Kellogg [application] records,” said Thompson. “Family involvement is a foundational element of quality education.”

The foundation had planned to provide $5 million for family engagement programs over a threeyear period. However, responding to the wave of applications, the foundation has decided to provide $5 million during the first year of funding. Thompson said her organization will announce the amount it will invest in the second and third years when it identifies the grant winners of first round of funding in mid-April.

The foundation is already funding some parental engagement initiatives — among them, programs managed by Parents for Public Schools of Jackson, Miss., and the Orleans Public Education Network in New Orleans.

OPEN Executive Director Deirdre Johnson Burel said more parental involvement is needed but cited “institutional school problems” as a more important factor in the education of black students.

She said there is a need for more professional development training for teachers and that black students are not getting the best instruction because teachers at schools in low-income communities generally have less experience.

Burel said parental involvement is becoming more important as school districts in 44 states begin to adopt the more rigorous Common Core education standards.

“We need to help parents understand this shift,” she said. “We need higher education standards, but we also need the resources to meet those standards.”

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“Family involvement is a foundational element of quality education.”

— Carla Thompson respondents said lack of parental involvement, making it the most frequently cited concern. Other concerns included “overcrowded classrooms” (17 percent), “funding differences among school districts” (17 percent), “quality of teachers” (16 percent), and “students with behavioral issues or special needs” (10 percent).

Of those respondents with school-age children or grandchildren, only 37 percent said the nation was “making progress” in efforts to provide “a quality educa-

ucation and life prospects of young Latino and African-American males.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is one of 10 major foundations that have agreed to work with the White House to support the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative. However, education has been a priority for the foundation throughout its 83-year history, said Carla Thompson, the foundation’s vice-president of program strategy.

Referring to the survey results that cite “lack of parental involve-

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Colette Greenstein A New Yorker by way of Oklahoma City, actress and dancer Deidre Goodwin is part of the ensemble cast performing in the world premiere of the American Repertory Theater’s latest production “The Shape She Makes.”

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Goodwin, a multi-talented actress, dancer and singer, has moved effortlessly between theater, film and television over the course of her career. She has spent years perfecting her craft and has appeared in eight Broadway shows including “Chicago,” “A Chorus Line,” “Nine,” “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “The Rocky Horror Show.”

She has also appeared in the original productions of “Chita Rivera: The Dancers’ Life” and “Never Gonna Dance.”

In addition to her years both on and off-Broadway, Goodwin has displayed her comedic and dramatic skills in a variety of roles on television and in film. She played the character “DeBORah,” winner of the MILF Island episode on NBC’s “30 Rock” and has appeared on CBS’ “Blue Bloods,” Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie” and F/X’s “Rescue Me.” In 2012, she had a supporting role in the action film “The Bourne Legacy” and was cast as a fertility clinic nurse opposite Alec Baldwin in the romantic comedy “It’s Complicated”. In 2002, she played the fierce “June” in the film version of “Chicago” opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger.

On a recent lunch break from rehearsals, Goodwin spoke to the Banner about how she got her start in theater and her latest project,

“The Shape She Makes.”

How did you get your start in theater?

I was a late bloomer. I always loved to watch musicals and anything that had dance in it when I was a little girl. I think I always was a dancer by spirit but didn’t have any training at all. It wasn’t until I was in college where I took my first, professional real dance class.

After that, it was “this is what I’m supposed to do for a living.” I had a very supportive mom who was like “you can be a dance major, just get another degree.” That was my start.

What was the one musical that inspired you?

I know it was a combination of things like “Singing in the Rain” and it was also “Fame.” I also honestly liked “Sesame Street” because they always tried to educate you.

And there was always a song or a pratfall or something. And, Carol Burnett was huge, huge, huge.

You grew up in Oklahoma. Did you have any opportunity to see the theater? Were you exposed to the arts or was it something that was just innate?

There were traveling groups of theater for children that would come and we’d have assembly and they would do songs. I didn’t know it at the time but they were basically doing “Godspell.” I took a trip on a bus from Oklahoma City with the YWCA. My cousin and I and a bunch of the girls, ages 13 to like 16, 17 drove to New York and we actually saw “Dreamgirls” and that was the first time I saw people who looked like me. I didn’t know you could do that for a living. I didn’t know that it was a job.

You’re in the new production of “The Shape She Makes.”

What was it about the role and the story that appealed to you?

It’s so beautiful. It’s a very spe-

cific story. But, because of its specificity it relates to everyone. I think it’s so universal. To me, it’s about getting out of your own way, and doing those things that will make you better. What’s holding you back? What is your sandbox? Is it a person? Is it an event that happened in your childhood? Is it something that is stunting you from becoming who you need to become? And, not using your full capability. And, it’s told in such a heart breaking [way], even though it’s definitely a theatrical event. It’s very much like a film using flashbacks, flash forwards, things happening at the same time.

It’s also full of hope.

Has that been heightened for you working on this production?

I was already in tune with that for myself, through my friends.

It’s always easier to see someone or give someone else advice when you’re doing the same thing.

What’s also beautiful about this show is that I’ve seen every single one in the room whether we’re performing or on the sides, has had that moment, “Oh wait, but that’s my story.” And, you start wondering what’s keeping me back or I was able to shed that and that’s why I moved forward to the next thing. I think we as humans do that a lot.

How many characters do you play?

We all play a lot of different things. It’s not your typical show.

Technically three but all of us become other things. And by things I mean things, like a sink. That’s for the main character to access and part of that is because we all are one thing. We all are each other. We all have our own family, our own race, our own whatever. We’re all connected and that’s a pretty cool thing too. I don’t want people to think it’s performance art. It’s a story that will touch people’s hearts.

You played the character “June” in the movie version of

“Chicago” in 2002 and you’ve also played “Velma” in the Broadway production. Were there any similarities?

What was so cool is because I had done the show for so long, I knew it inside and out. It made me feel freer because I knew the content. It was just “how was I going to present it?”

It was also fun because there wasn’t as much Fosse movement in the movie, but it was very athletic and strong which I enjoyed a lot. Both experiences were fantastic.

Is the hope that when you’re in a local production, such as “The Shape She Makes,” that it will be picked up to run on Broadway?

Definitely to move to Broadway or another venue in New York. It’s a very intimate show so it would have to be really tailored for a traditional Broadway theater. There’s hope for it to move forward and we want people to come up to see it, as well as people here in Boston to come see the show, and hopefully start to spread the word.

Have you ever thought you messed up an audition and weren’t going to get the role, but actually ended up getting it?

One thing I’ll always remember when I was younger was that I had already done “Chicago” on Broadway and actually played a lead role on the road. I started having anxiety about performing. It was almost like, before I was not nervous because I was having fun and then once people started going “we see you and we think you could do more” I became afraid. Before, I didn’t realize you were looking at me. I’m just having fun, telling you stories, dancing and going about my business. So then, I had an audition for “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

And I remember walking in there and I had my song all picked out.

I was going to sing “And I’m Telling You.” I started singing it and I

“Velma Kelly.” She’s so strong and tough. I like her journey because she starts out on top. Not a care in the world. She did some terrible things, not really concerned about it. And then, she gets knocked off her podium right away and she has to fight her way back up. She’s resourceful, she’s spunky, she’s smart, and she’s savvy. And, I love that about her. I also love playing “Sheila” in “A Chorus Line” because that’s one of the best roles written for women in musical theater. What she gets to go through.

She’s similar to “Velma” in that she’s the head dog, she’s the one people want to be. She gets all the jobs, and then she starts to realize her mortality in that world, and that has made her who she is, who celebrated her.

Seeing what that does, and going through that journey every night was an honor to explore.

Have you thought about doing more acting or are you still enjoying the roles that you’re receiving?

I know that whatever I do dance will be a part of my life, whether it’s teaching others to do it, or helping people to produce a show like this, or creating it. I like acting as well.

I’m feeling more my flip is going to be on the other side of the table.

I like creating things and being around creative people, and helping to facilitate that.

What was the best piece of advice you received for getting into this life?

I don’t know that I got any actual advice. I think I was so naïve as to how hard it was that I didn’t know any better. I just knew it made me happy. That’s all I knew.

And, I think for my psyche that was a good thing. Now, at other schools they break it down for you.

You need to know this casting director, you need to wear this. This is a formula and very businesslike.

And, I don’t think there’s a formula.

I think there are different things you should be aware of. I think there something’s to be said for not knowing about all the monsters under the bed. You’ll discover them all along the way.

Deidre Goodwin performs in “The Shape She Makes” playing now through Sunday, April 27, at the Oberon in Cambridge. Tickets: $25$55. For show times and to purchase tickets, order online at www.american repertorytheater.org or by phone at 617-547-8300.

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Bright Lights, Big City …

The world of sports and music came together in support of Jaden’s Ladder annual fundraiser “Bright Lights, Big City Black & White

(l-r) Jaden’s Ladder co-founder Oneta Bobbett and Jenn Penton from TNT’s “Boston’s Finest” at the “Bright Lights, Big City Black & White Gala.”

Gala,” held in the ballroom of the Ritz Carlton Hotel. NFL Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk, former NBA power forward Charles Oakley, and 2013 finalist from the NBC’s “The Voice” Will Champlin all attended this year’s bash, and Champlin sang several songs including a heart-felt version of Etta James’ “At Last.” Hot 96.9’s DJ Roy Barboza was back on the wheels of steels and Coach Willie

intheMix with Colette Greenstein

Maye of NESN returned as master of ceremonies. It was a fun-filled evening and, when it was all said and done, $100,000 was raised for Jaden’s Ladder. Truly a great night for a great cause!

Then it was on to the newly opened Savvor Restaurant & Lounge in Chinatown for a bit of late-night noshing. The restaurant and lounge, located in what was formerly District Nightclub has been renovated and given new life. It’s spacious, colorful, fun and a good spot to meet up after work or for a night on the town. On this night, there was live music by the Woo Factor and they provided the perfect blend of jazz as a backdrop to the night. Add this new spot to your list of places to check out!

A Night at the Museum….

It was an evening of art and food at the preview reception for the Museum of Fine Arts’ newest exhibit “Quilts and Color” The Pilgrim/Roy Collection. The evening began with a hearty meal for a few hundred of us in the New American Café. There was a little something for everyone ranging from beef to salmon to a delicious barley mixed with kale, all accompanied by fresh greens and clam chowder, with complimentary wine and champagne flowing throughout the evening. The art-lovers were

with Colette

spoiled by the beauty of the museum surrounded by the glow emanating from Dale Chilhuly’s “Lime Green Icicle Tower” sculpture. After dinner, it was time to see the exhibit.

The quilts were absolutely gorgeous. The array of colors and intricate patterns were simply amazing.

Most of the quilts are over 100 years old. Incredible!

The night ended very sweetly with desserts of bite-sized glazed chocolate donuts, strawberry shortcake and, my favorite, dark chocolate with maple walnut in a mini cone with bits of crispy pieces of bacon drizzled on top, served to everyone.

Just Dance …

This month’s “First Fridays” at the Institute of Contemporary Art was an absolute blast! The huge, eclectic and fabulous crowd of young and old, white, black, Asian and other, artists and professionals types, all mingled and drank throughout the lobby. DJ Knife kept the atmosphere fun and light-hearted from the moment one stepped in the door, spinning a blend of hip hop, pop and R&B that kept the crowd moving all night. There was also a special performance by the Boston Ballet called “Of Trial” by Jeffrey Cirio and a chance to get one’s hands dirty with Body Work, a hands-on art activity.

Coloring for the grown-ups! Plus there were spotlight talks and an exclusive mini-lounge for ICA mem-

bers, MINI Cooper owners and some other VIPs. Looking forward to the next one on May 2!

Coming up …

The Sinclair presents comedian W. Kamau Bell and his “Oh, Everything” Tour on Wednesday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20 in advance; $22 day of show. It’s an 18 and over show. www.sinclair cambridge.com On Thursday, April 17, and

Friday, April 18, Jose James returns to Scullers Jazz Club for one show each night at 8 p.m. Tickets: Show, $30; Dinner/Show, $70. To purchase go to www.scullersjazz.com.

The Talk’s Aisha Tyler performs stand-up comedy at The Wilbur on Saturday, April 19, at 7 p.m. Tickets: $25.00. Buy online at www.ticket master.com.

If you would like me to cover or write about your event, email me at inthemix withcolette@gmail.com.

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Composer Maria Schneider swings into Hub with band Susan Saccoccia Hang gliding over Rio; listening to birds singing; and gazing across wind-swept prairies are all experiences that jazz composer and big band leader Maria Schneider turns into music with her 18-member band, the Maria Schneider Orchestra. Its signature sound — sensuous and swinging orchestral works that combine oceanic swells of harmony with lyrical solos — often conjure the landscapes and memories of her small, rural hometown, Windom, Minn.

Schneider, 53, will conduct her orchestra on Saturday, April 26, at the Berklee Performance Center, in a Celebrity Series of Boston presentation. She will also join a free, student-run panel on the future of jazz composition at Berklee’s Café 939 on Thursday, April 24, at 12:30 p.m., with Terence Blanchard, Billy Childs, Patrice Rushen and Geri Allen.

“Most of my music is story telling,” says Schneider, on the phone last week from her apartment in Manhattan. “What I love about my performances with my band, what people respond to, is what the musicians put into the music that’s theirs and in the end becomes ours.

My musicians complete the story

of the music.”

When her soloists improvise, Schneider says, “It’s not about them being technically adept over the top of the music. It’s about them making the music feel inevitable and seamless, creating the circle of beauty.”

Schneider’s musical journey has taken her beyond her Minnesota start, but she brings along her past.

“I don’t think that ever goes away for anybody,” says Schneider of her connection with hometown memories. “It’s your first orientation to everything.”

These memories include flying over the prairies with her father, who worked for a company that that gave him a plane to cross the Dakotas. “There was no other way to get around,” says Schneider.

Schneider blends improvisation, swing and symphonic richness to tell her stories. At times, she draws from realms beyond jazz, including the samba and classical music.

Among her Grammy-winning albums is “Winter Morning Walks” (2014), a collaboration with soprano singer Dawn Upshaw inspired by two revered poets of place, Carlos Drummond de Andrade of Brazil and fellow Midwesterner Ted Kooser, a Pulitzer

Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate.

Reflecting on both her music and her upbringing, Schneider’s early connections with nature and a close-knit, rural community influence her approach to composing, conducting and managing a livelihood.

“It’s important to me that my music speaks intelligibly to people,” says Schneider. “Music can have intricacy and complexity, but also draw people in. I come from a world of regular folks, unpretentious people — so many of my compositions are dedicated to its places and people.”

Many members of her orchestra have performed with her for decades. “Composing can be very isolating,” says Schneider. “But I have my band — my own little community of wonderful, crazy people.”

Schneider started early on her musical journey. “Even as a kid, I was attracted to orchestration,” she says. “I love things that are big and flamboyant — the colors, all the choices.”

At age 5, she found the woman who would become her music teacher for 13 years, Evelyn Butler.

In the liner notes of her first album, Schneider writes of learning jazz and music theory from this “dy-

namic, redheaded classical and stride jazz pianist who blew into in my hometown from Chicago.

Smitten from the first moment I heard her lay into a keyboard, I had to study with her.”

Schneider obtained a bachelor’s degree in music from University of Minnesota and later, a master’s of degree in music from the Eastman School of Music. In 2012, her alma mater awarded her an honorary doctorate.

In 1985, Schneider moved to New York City and found a mentor in Gil Evans, whose orchestrations include three of Miles Davis’ finest albums: “Miles Ahead” (1957), “Porgy and Bess” (1958) and “Sketches of Spain” (1960).

Schneider worked for Evans during the last three years of his life, assisting him on arrangements. After his death in 1988, she formed the Maria Schneider Orchestra. From 1993 to 1998, they had a standing Monday night gig at a Greenwich Village jazz club.

In 1994, they recorded their first album, “Evanescence.” Nominated for a Grammy, the debut recording widened their circle of fans.

Three years later, Schneider and her band went on tour in Brazil, an experience that shaped her singular voice as a composer. “Brazil was a big game changer in my music,” says Schneider. “The people, music and culture expressed an alchemy in life that turns struggle and pain into beauty and joy. Tom Jobim and Bach possess the same level of genius. Brazilian music is highly sophisticated, with very intricate, beautiful harmonies, yet very accessible.”

Jazz composer and conductor Maria Schneider conducts her 18-member orchestra. (Jimmy and Dena Katz photo) Extending her affinity for community to her business model, Schneider was an early adapter of fan-funding, which lets musicians control marketing and sales and keep profits that otherwise go to a record company. “It’s the only way now,” says Schneider. “I’m so glad I’ve spent last 10 years developing that.”

Schneider uses the website and record label ArtistShare to engage her fan base. Her 2004 album “Concert in the Garden” was the label’s first release and the first recording to win a Grammy with Internet-only sales. Supporters invest from $12.95 to $10,000 or more to preorder a new album and receive perks that vary in scale, from videos and blogs charting the creative process to VIP events.

At Berklee, Schneider and her band will play selections from albums that span two decades as well as yet-unrecorded pieces.

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Community Calendar Thursday April 10

The Black Russian Vladimir Alexandrov, B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University — The Black Russian — Co-sponsored by The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

CGIS South, S-354, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, 12:15pm.

Free and open to the public. A Q+A session will follow the lecture.

Write Your Children’s Book!

Writing Children’s Books 101 — Have an idea for a children’s book?

Come talk to published children’s author Irene Smalls. She will tell you all you wanted to know about children’s book publishing but were afraid to ask. In three sessions you will learn the mechanics of submitting your work, the business of children’s book publishing and have a chance to share your work with other writers. The last session will feature award winning authors and illustrators sharing their experiences with YOU! April 10 and 17, Dudley Square Library, Roxbury, 6:30-7:30pm. FREE - All are Welcome! Contact Email: info@irene smalls.com. Supported by a Grant from the Fellowes Athenaeum Fund of the Boston Public Library.

MAKE SPEAK MAKE SPEAK: Contemporary takes on craft by seven not-so-conventional craftspeople. 7pm, Presentations and Reception, Free Admission. Windgate Gallery. North Bennet Street School, 150 North St., Boston. For more info & to RSVP www.nbss.edu/about/news/ make-speak/index.aspx. From mathematics to mounting making, come whet your curiosity about the creative process, contemporary craftsmanship, and how things are made. Enjoy seven, 7-minute presentations by not-so-conventional craftspeople about how they work, think, and create: Brett Angell — artist and mount maker, Mary Barringer — studio potter and editor, Martin & Erik Demaine — artists/ mathematicians, Jonathan Baily Holland — composer and educator, Beth Ireland — artist and educator, Judith Leemann — artist and writer, Jeremy Ogusky — potter and fermenting evangelist. This evening of discovery and discussion is choreographed by the Commonwealth of Craft, a consortium of Massachusetts educational and cultural organizations.

Laughter Yoga Club April 10, May 8 — 6:307:30pm at the Dudley Library. It

is a free club for the whole family.

Community members will experience all the health benefits of a good belly laugh! No comedy or jokes involved! Enjoy this unique exercise of laughter and clapping combined with gentle breathing. Any age and any level of physical ability can participate in this uplifting experience!

Children are welcome. You can sit or stand. There are no fancy poses.

Saturday April 12

Dance Into Spring with Dance JP! Spring is here — let’s dance!

This safe, inclusive, and FUN dance party is an alternative to the club scene, with lots of space to move and groove, and amazing beats from around the globe!

We’ll have magical lighting, hula hoops and other fun stuff to play with, and a chill corner to relax.

We’ll hold space at the end of the dance for community announcements. 7:30-9:30pm, $3-10 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds). Wheelchair accessible. First Baptist Church JP, 633 Centre St., Jamaica Plain. For more info: http://tinyurl.com/DanceJP, or email: dancejpdance@gmail.com.

A Night of Premieres and “soft echoes…”

SOUND ENERGY, a dynamic new music string trio founded by violist Ashleigh Gordon, makes its debut at the Lilypad in Cambridge at 8pm. The program — entitled in soft echoes… — features an array of solos, duos, trios and quartets, all of which explore the subtle (and not so subtle) energy of sound.

The full program includes US premieres of works by Clara Iannotta (Italy) and Alain Feron (France), the pseudo-improvisatory viola-cello duo by Anthony R. Green (US/ Netherlands) and the Boston premiere of D.C. native Jeffrey Mumford’s string trio in soft echoes…a world awaits. Sound Energy members Micah Ringham (violin), Ashleigh Gordon (viola) and Rob Mayes (cello) welcome special guest clarinetist Celine Ferro for this debut performance. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door. The LilyPad, 1353 Cambridge St., Cambridge. www.

Sound-Energy.org.

Puppet-making Workshops FREE! April 12, 19, May 10, 17. 10:30am - 12:30pm. Jamaica Plain Community Center (Curtis Hall), 20 South St. Families Creating Together offers free series of four puppet-making workshops for

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children ages 7-11 with and without disabilities led by celebrated teaching artist using recycled materials.

Spanish, ASL translators. Wheelchair accessible. To register and for more information call 617-522-4832.

Tuesday April 15

Stokely: A Life Hutchins Center Event, Stokely: A Life — A Conversation Between Peniel Joseph and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Peniel Joseph: Author of Stokely: A Life; Professor of History, Tufts University; Alumnus Caperton Fellow. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University; Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.

Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, 6pm. Free and open to the public.

Wednesday April 16

Capoeira The UMass Lowell Department of Cultural Studies and Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture & Research announce an outdoor performance of capoeira, Brazilian martial art and dance, by the Associação de Capoeira Mandingueiros dos Palmares (ACMP). The event will take place at 12pm at the Quad on the South Campus, in front of the O’Leary Library, 61 Wilder St. in Lowell. Developed in Brazil by African slaves and their descendants, Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art form that weaves acrobatic movements, fight, play, dance, strategy, music, and philosophy into a rhythmic game of real and ritualized combat resulting in an unchoreographed “conversation” between players. The ritual dance is performed to berimbau music. For more information, www.uml.edu/ international-programs/Portuguese/ default.aspx. This performance is free and open to the public.

Thursday April 17

2nd Annual Open Mic Poetry Night Does the Muse of Poetry inspire and motivate you? Show off your short poetry cool quips and sizzling sentences at our open mic night. All ages welcome, and we encourage poems in all languages. Poet and teacher Aaron Devine will MC the event. Clean language only. All styles of poetry are welcome. Each poet gets 3 minutes maximum of show time. Limited to 25 participants, pre-registration is required. Sign up with Elise at the adult desk or with Emily in the children’s room or call 617-265-0139. 5:30pm, Uphams Corner Branch of the Boston Public Library, 500 Columbia Rd ~ 617265-0139, www.bpl.org.

Upcoming The Arnold Arboretum: Where the Wild Things Are On Friday, April 18 at 7:30pm, the National Park Service is offer-

ing a guided walk of the Arnold Arboretum entitled “The Arnold Arboretum: Where the Wild Things Are.” This 90-minute program is free and open to the public and will take place rain or shine. No advance registration is necessary.

The meeting place is the front of the Hunnewell Building, located just inside the Main Gate, 120 The Arborway/Route 203. Parking is available along the Arborway, and the meeting place is also walkable from the MBTA’s Forest Hills station. For further information, please contact Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site at 617-566-1689 x206 or visit www. nps.gov/frla. “The Arnold Arboretum: Where the Wild Things Are” will explore the wilder creatures of the Arboretum, while covering the work of Arboretum co-designers Frederick Law Olmsted and horticulturist Charles Sprague Sargent.

These two men not only designed our nation’s first public Arboretum, but also advocated for the preservation scenic and wilderness areas around the country.

The program will culminate at the top of Bussey Hill where participants will be able to observe constellations in the night sky through a telescope.

National Park Week Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (Olmsted NHS) invites the public to celebrate National Park Week with a first-time visit or a return visit to “Fairsted” (99 Warren St, Brookline, Massachusetts), where Frederick Law Olmsted established the nation’s first full-scale professional landscape architecture office in 1883. National Park Week runs from Saturday, April 19 through Sunday, April 27 and includes Earth Day (Tuesday, April 22), Arbor Day (Friday, April 25), and National Jr. Ranger Day as well as Olmsted’s birthday (Saturday, April 26). National Park Week, a presidentially proclaimed celebration of our national heritage, takes place annually in late April. The 2014 theme is “Go Wild!!” Several program offerings by Olmsted NHS during National Park Week highlight the connections between the Olmsteds and the preservation of our nation’s wild and scenic places. All programs are free, open to the public, and do not require reservations. For detailed information, please visit www.nps.gov/frla or call 617-566-1689.

Roxbury Patriots’ Day The Roxbury Collaborative Presents: Roxbury Patriots’ Day Monday, April 21. The First Church in Roxbury, John Eliot Square, 10 Putnam St., Roxbury (Intersection of Roxbury, Dudley and Centre Streets). Events of the day include: (9-11am) William Dawes Ride Re-enactment by the National Lancers, Historic Recitations and Dawes Send-off, Historic Talk.

(11am) Trolley Tours led by Thomas Plant and State Representative Byron Rushing of Historic Sites in Roxbury. All Events Are Free.

Rarified Simmons College presents Rarified, an exhibit of drawings

by Rebecca Doughty and Alice O’Neill April 22 - May 30 at

the Trustman Art Gallery, located on the fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 the Fenway in Boston. A reception from 5-7pm will be held on Wednesday, April 30. The artists will speak briefly about their work at 5:45pm. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public (closed May 9, 26). Rebecca Doughty and Alice O’Neill are artists exploring shape and line through an economy of means and a rigorous process.

Their drawings elegantly compress form, their very spareness an invitation to respond on one’s own terms. These two artists skillfully maximize feeling with a minimum of embellishment. Their aptitude in soliciting our interest in their characters and forms lies in their ability to imply much through their thorough understanding of essence. Trustman Gallery hours are 10am - 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. The gallery is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact Marcia Lomedico at 617-521-2268, or visit the Trustman Art Gallery website at www.simmons.edu/ trustman.

“Tuesday Nights” concert series Tuesday, April 22, starting at 7pm, at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 838 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, the weekly “Tuesday Nights” concert series presents Open Mic Opera. Local opera singers, younger and older, amateur and professional, are invited to sing their hearts out.

And the general public is invited to come and listen. Suggested donation of $10 at the door.

FREE Family Fun Days at the Kroc This Spring Join us for 4th Fridays: FREE Family Fun Days at the Kroc. Participate in: Swimming, Open Gym, Rock Wall Climbing, Specialized Workshops & Activities, & More! April 25 | May 23, 5-8pm. Arrive Early! Activities are based on capacity. No membership or registration required. For more information contact our Welcome Desk at 617-318-6900.

Jamaica Pond: Genius of the Place On Sunday, April 27 at 10am, a National Park Service ranger from Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site is leading a walk of Jamaica Pond. This two-hour walking tour entitled “Jamaica Pond: Genius of the Place” will examine the natural and cultural history of the pond and surrounding parkland. The tour will also cover the park’s design by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted on the day following the 192nd anniversary of his birth. The tour meets at the Jamaica Pond Boathouse, located at the intersection of Pond Street and the Jamaicaway. It takes place rain or shine and is free and open to the public. For more information about the walk and other spring offerings, please call Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site at 617-566-1689, extension 216.

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Children of undocumented unaware of amnesty program Jacqueline García Cynthia Tejeda was both nervous and hopeful as she waited in a long line at the Mexican Consulate Office in Los Angeles last week to speak with an immigration attorney.

Originally from Cuernavaca, Morelos Mexico, Tejeda was brought to the U.S. illegally by

her parents when she was just 9 years old, which could mean she is eligible for a reprieve from deportation through a special program that allows undocumented immigrants like her to stay in the country, at least temporarily.

In 2012, President Obama issued an executive order creating the Deferred Action Childhood Arrival or DACA program

that allows undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to remain in the country without fear of deportation for two years, subject to renewal, and to receive a work permit.

Among the requirements, the applicant must have entered the U.S. before his or her 16th birthday, and have been under the age of 31 on June 15, 2012,

the date the order was signed.

Tejeda, 27, told Eastern Group Publications she at first felt “helpless and sad” because she did not have the money to apply for DACA. The single mother said all the money she earns as a waitress goes to support her three children, ages 9, 2 and 1.

Tejeda is one of the approximately 1.6 million undocumented individuals immigration officials believe are eligible to receive deferred action status.

However, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data, fewer than half of those who may qualify have applied.

Last week, the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles opened its doors to would-be applicants to help them with the process. Seventeen immigration attorneys provided free assistance, which at times included sifting through stacks of paperwork only to discover that key records were missing or incomplete.

Carlos M. Sada, Mexican

trying”… “for as long as we have available resources,” Sada told EGP. “In the past two years, 2012 and 2013, we allocated $250,000” to support cases where “the young ones can’t afford the expense,” Sada explained.

M e x i c o ’s D e p a r t m e n t o f Protection told EGP via email that the Mexican consulate has so far helped 261 Mexican students pay their fees. They are currently working with six nonprofit organizations in Mexico to raise money to help more students.

Applicants must provide proof for every year they claim to have been in the country.

Each year that goes by means more documentation that must accompany the application.

Many times applications are denied or delayed because the applicant did not provide “sufficient evidence of continuous presence” in the country, immigration Attorney Nora E. Phillips told EGP last week while assisting applicants at the con-

“I can really see a before and after with these documents,” —Cynthia Tejeda

Governor Deval Patrick tours the Mexico City Metrobus System as part of his Latin American trade tour. (Governor’s Office photo by Christopher Speers)

Consul General in Los Angeles, told EGP that a lack of information, fear of deportation and insufficient “economic resources” has kept many from applying.

Some worry filing the application will lead immigration officials right to them and they will be deported if their application is denied.

In addition to the age requirements, applicants must provide proof that they have been in the country continuously since 2007 and in the U.S. on June 15, 2012, the day the executive order was signed; are in high school, have graduated or earned a GED certificate; have not been convicted of a felony or serious misdemeanors or pose a criminal threat to the country; or have been honorably discharged from the military.

Knowing what documents are required or considered acceptable for proving eligibility is crucial to completing the process successfully, say attorneys.

So is having the money to pay the application fee.

After nearly two years of saving, Tejeda finally has the $465 she needs to file her application. She is hopeful that she will soon have a work permit, social security number and a driver’s license as a result.

“I can really see a before and after with these documents,” Tejeda told EGP, referring to the possibility that after 19 years of being undocumented, she may no longer have to be afraid.

“I can finally study … provide a better life for my children,” she said, her eyes filling with tears as her emotions start to get the better of her.

But it’s possible that Tejeda was eligible for financial assistance that would have allowed her to apply much earlier.

Sada said the Mexican Consulate offers “up to $1,000” to help undocumented Mexicans pay attorney and USCIS fees, if they have no other resources.

“It is an effort that we are

sulate’s workshop.

“You have to prove you have been in the U.S. since June 15, 2007 until the present, including June 15, 2012,” Phillips said.

The more time that passes, the more difficult the process becomes, she said.

“A lot of them [DACA applicants] came with a lot of documents and a lot of them came with nothing,” she said. We start the application for those with the information required, but for those who do not have what they need, “we do a quick screening and refer them to attorneys at nonprofit organizations” for follow-up help, she said.

According to USCIS’ latest numbers, as of Feb. 6 of this y e a r, 5 2 1 , 8 1 5 a p p l i c a t i o n s have been approved. Of those, 403,302 were immigrants from Mexico, followed by 19,089 Salvadorians, 12,339 Hondurans and 12,410 Guatemalans.

According to the USCIS website, any individual who meets the DACA requirements is eligible for deferred status even if they are “in removal proceedings with a final order or with a voluntary departure order, as long as they are not [already] in immigration detention.”

USCIS also states that it is very unlikely individuals who apply but are not granted deferred action will be deported.

“If your case does not involve a criminal offense, fraud, or a threat to national security or public safety, your case will not be referred to ICE for removal proceedings,” according to USCIS. New Anerican Media

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performance audit of the city’s Human Resources department, examining how city employees are hired. But changes to the city’s workforce are likely to take a few years. Because most city employees are protected by civil service laws and union contracts, the Walsh administration has little leeway to replace existing em-

who the superintendent is in the department,” he commented.

“I’m not saying the superintendent has to be black to have a high percentage of people of color, but I don’t think it hurts.”

At the Boston Center for Youth and Families, headed by Christopher Bynner who is black, 42 percent of the pay goes to African Americans, 41 percent to whites, 14 percent to Latinos and 3 percent to Asians.

But in the majority of city

“Over time, the numbers will change. I’m very focused on that.”

— Martin Walsh

ployees.

“You can’t just move people out,” Walsh said. “Over time, the numbers will change. I’m very focused on that.”

Yancey said the concentration of people of color in the schools may have been an outcome of the department running under a consent decree from the school desegregation lawsuit filed in the ‘70s. But more likely, he noted, leadership may be a factor.

“I think a lot has to do with

departments headed by whites, people of color occupy few of the high-paying positions.

In the Treasury Department, 70 percent of the pay goes to whites. At the Fire Department there are just two African Americans in the top 58 positions, which include district fire chiefs, superintendents and assistant superintendents.

In the Parks Department, 70 percent of the pay goes to whites.

In the Law Department, whites

earn 80 percent of the pay. In Inspectional Services, whites earn 68 percent of the pay. In the Transportation Department, it’s 69 percent.

Of the 18,771 city employees, 10,223 — or 54 percent — are white, 28 percent are African American, 12 percent are Latino and four percent are Asian.

For decades, city government in Boston was dominated by whites. Blacks and Latinos were historically excluded from jobs in the schools, police and fire departments. In the 1970s, civil rights activists began documenting and challenging hiring practices in city government leading to a series of civil rights cases.

Consequently, several major city departments operated under court order at some point in the last 40 years. The Police Department, the Fire Department, the Boston Housing Authority and the School Department all operated under consent decrees governing hiring and promotion of black and Latino employees.

But while the numbers of black employees in those and other city departments increased during the ‘70s, ’80s and ‘90s, whites remained in control of the management of the departments and the public employee unions that mediated disputes over hiring and promotions.

There were notable gains under the administration of former Mayor Raymond Flynn, with blacks and Latinos appointed

to head major city departments.

But those gains in leadership positions eroded somewhat during the 20 years of the Menino administration.

In addition to lack of color in the city’s top jobs, Boston residents may also be missing out on the city’s largesse, according to Yancey. In spite of a Boston Jobs Residency ordinance, that mandates that most city workers live in the city of Boston, $426 million of the city’s $1.1 billion payroll goes to people living outside of the city.

“That’s an extraordinary amount of money,” Yancey said.

“I’m sure there are a lot of Bostonians who can do these jobs. The infusion of $426 million could promote a lot of economic development in Boston.”

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BOSTON scenes More than 300 fans attended Thursday night’s opening of the BASE Clubhouse Learning Center in Roxbury. Robert Lewis Jr., founder and president of The BASE, announced that more than $8 million in college scholarships and support has been secured for The BASE’s student athletes from eight college partners.

The BASE board members: (l-r) Alan Khazei, founder of City Year; Ronald Walker II, Next Street; Patrick Davis, M3 Advisory Group; Robert Lewis Jr., founder and president of The BASE; Nimit Patel, Sony Corp.; Aixa Beauchamp, Beauchamp & Associates; and Ken Lang, public equity investor. (SWKphoto photos)

About 600 people attended The Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association annual gala at the Westin Copley on April 3. The event was emceed by 7NBC WHDH-TV Anchor Byron Barnett.

The keynote speaker was Sen. William “Mo” Cowan, counsel to Mintz Levin and senior vice president and chief operating officer of ML Strategies. Cowan was among the association’s Trailblazer Honorees at the event, as was Denise J. Casper, U.S. District Court Judge for the district of Massachusetts.

(l-r) U.S. Magistrate Joyce London Alexander and U.S. District Judge Denise Casper

(l-r) E. Abim Thomas, president, MBLA; Stacey and Sen. William “Mo” Cowan, U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper; Diane Patrick and Gov. Deval Patrick. (Tony Irving photos)

Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Roderick Ireland is joined by his wife (l) and Boston College Law School Dean Tracey West (r).

(l-r) TV Anchor Byron Barnett, Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Roderick Ireland and Wayne Budd

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L1192-C1, 15KV SELECTOR SWITCH REPLACEMENT AT THE LOGAN OFFICE CENTER GARAGE, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MA, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE:

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2014.

The work includes REPLACE THE EXISTING 15Kv DUAL SELECTOR AIR SWITCH AT THE LOGAN OFFICE CENTER GARAGE WITH A GAS FILLED DUAL SELECTOR SWITCH USING THE EXISTING CONCRETE PAD AND CONDUITS WHILE MAINTAINING POWER TO THE CONNECTED LOADS AT THE GARAGE, HARBORWALK AND THE BOAT DOCK. Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014.

Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of ELECTRICAL.

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14P0698GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

No filed sub bids will be required for this contract.

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000.

Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14D0272DR

vs.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 05/01/2014. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: March 25, 2014 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Elizabeth Beasley, 36 Granfield Ave., #3L, Roslindale, MA 02131 your answer, if any, on or before 05/29/2014. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: April 1, 2014 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

Estate of Walter Young Also known as Walter S Young Date of Death: 02/03/1985

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Albert Augustus Lewis Also known as: Albert A. Lewis Date of Death: 07/12/2013 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Laverne A. Galloway of Mattapan, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Laverne A. Galloway of Mattapan, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 05/22/2014. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: March 13, 2014 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU14P0727EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Renee Corbin Date of Death: 09/08/2013

To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Robin D. Young of Mattapan, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Robin D. Young of Mattapan, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 04/24/2014. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Tanya Jackson of Tampa FL requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Tanya Jackson of Tampa FL be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 05/01/2014. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: March 25, 2014 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: March 28,2014 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14P0110EA

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14D0559DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication

Helen Costly

Estate of Garland Herndon Date of Death: 05/18/1998

vs.

Troy Costly

To the Defendant:

A petition has been filed by Gloria A. Herndon of Dorchester, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Gloria A. Herndon of Dorchester, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 04/24/2014. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the adminis-

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Docket No. SU14P0576EA

SUFFOLK Division

To all interested persons:

The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c. 208, Section 1 B.

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14P0582EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication

Thomas Beasley

To the Defendant:

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Gloria B. Cassiani of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that George Dunbar is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Gloria B. Cassiani of Boston, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Elizabeth Beasley

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: March 24, 2014 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

In the matter of George Dunbar Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person

The estimated contract cost is ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($119,000).

Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44J inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.

tration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c. 208, Section 1 B. The Complaint is on file at the Court.

An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Helen Costly, 2888 Washington St, Roxbury, MA 02119-1176, your answer, if any, on or before 06/12/2014. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: March 27, 2014 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

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The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), the regional planning agency for Metro Boston, seeks an Energy Coordinator/Energy Planner to help achieve MAPC’s local and regional clean energy goals. This is an opportunity to work in a dynamic, inter-disciplinary, and innovative environment to build a more sustainable and equitable future for metropolitan Boston. The Coordinator/Planner will work closely with other staff at MAPC, state agencies, local officials, community groups, businesses, and institutions to promote clean energy efforts in Metro Boston.

Duties include: Help cities and towns to develop plans, policies, zoning, and programs to promote energy efficiency, to advance renewable energy in the residential, commercial and municipal sectors, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; design and run regional energy projects, e.g., procuring energy-efficient equipment or services, or planning energy initiatives among neighboring municipalities.

Qualifications include: MA in planning, public policy, engineering, or public or business administration, with training in energy systems or related disciplines and a minimum of one year of professional experience working directly with energy issues in a public or private sector setting; or relevant bachelor’s degree and a minimum of three years of professional experience. Full time position with an excellent state employee benefits package. Salary range $45,000 to $55,000 depending on qualifications and experience. This position is a one year contract appointment. Position is open until filled.

Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the USA and a valid driver’s license and/or the ability to arrange transportation to meetings in different parts of the region.

Please see complete job description on MAPC Web site and APPLY ON LINE AT LINK SHOWN THERE. Please attach cover letter, resume, writing sample, and names of three professional references.

The Administrative Assistant responsibilities are as follows: ❖ Monitors the overall operations of the church’s dayto-day operations. ❖ Work closely with the pastor, trustees, church staff and other ministries to ensure that all facets of the church’s needs and requirements are being adequately addressed. ❖ Will follow established procedures for ensuring that all administrative functions are operating in an efficient and effective manner. ❖ Will work with the Board of Trustees to institute procurement, personnel, payment and contracting policies are followed in order to enable the church to meet all obligations and responsibilities promptly.

• The Administrative Assistant is directly responsible to the Pastor.

Requirements: ❖ The ability to communicate clearly, courteously and effectively. ❖ The demonstrated ability to communicate orally and in writing. ❖ Interpersonal and organizational skills. ❖ The ability to effectively manage/coordinate simultaneous projects, and successfully prioritize multiple tasks with good judgment.

Please mail your résumé to: Pleasant Hill Baptist Church P.O. Box 155, Dorchester, MA 02121

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GIS Analyst

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council seeks a GIS Analyst for the Data Services Department. The GIS Analyst will collect and organize geographic data, create new datasets, conduct analysis, and prepare maps for presentation in print and online. MAPC is the regional planning agency for the metropolitan Boston region.

Duties include: Provide GIS mapping, spatial analysis, data development, and technical support services for MAPC’s local and regional planning projects; develop new datasets using spatial and statistical methods such as network analysis, suitability analysis, or other geospatial processes.

Qualifications: BA in degree in planning, geography, geographic information systems, public health, economics, computer sciences, or a related field and at least three years experience in GIS; high level of cartographic experience, including a command of design and layout tools such as Maplex; Experience with creation and updates of spatial and tabular data; high proficiency with ESRI ArcGIS 10.x. Salary range: $50,500 - $63,000, depending on qualifications. Excellent state employee benefits package. The position is open until filled. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume and three references.

Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the USA and a valid driver’s license and/or the ability to arrange transportation to meetings in different parts of the region.

MAPC is an EOE/ AA employer. MAPC takes pride in the diversity of its workforce and encourages all qualified persons to apply.

PLEASE SEE COMPLETE AD AT MAPC WEB SITE (www.mapc.org) AND APPLY AT LINK THERE.

Bookkeeper/ Office Manager Application Deadline: Applications accepted until April 11, 2014 The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts (ACLUM), a state affiliate of the national ACLU, seeks a bookkeeper/office manager for a full-time position in its Boston office.

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MAPC is an EOE/AA employer. Diverse candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please email resumes and salary requests to Florence Scott, Office Manager at fscott@roxmulti.org • Compensation is Competitive • No phone calls please.

• RMSC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

The Pleasant Hill Baptist Church of Dorchester, Massachusetts is seeking an

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Elder Services – Food Dollars Program Provide volunteer master trainers with extensive training on the Food Dollars Program, enabling them to lead classes aimed at teaching healthy eating on a budget to low-income older adults in Boston, as well as train and provide support to new coaches. Ensure the training for coaches by master trainers follows program curriculum and allows coaches to obtain the skills needed to co-lead classes for participants. Develop two training tracks and their respective manuals: one for master trainers and one for coaches. Conduct four to six trainings for master trainers and coaches from April to December with five to twelve potential participants in each training. Observe master trainers’ and coaches’ sessions to improve training and evaluate performance. Assist in the development of an evaluation tool for trainings. Manage and report program data, including data entry and record system maintenance. Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition, Human Services, or a related field, with three to five years of experience in health education, training, or human services required. Prior training experience with healthy aging programs preferred. Bilingual skills in Spanish a plus. Must be able to work sensitively and effectively with individuals of diverse educational, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.

Please note: this position is part-time for 15 – 20 hours per week and temporary through December 31, 2014. Continued employment is contingent upon receipt of additional funding.

All applications and inquiries should be directed to the Human Resources Department, 178 Tremont St. Boston, MA 02111 Fax: (617) 423-7693, or email hr@bostonabcd.org Please visit our website at www.bostonabcd.org for additional employment listings.

ABCD Inc. is an equal opportunity employer actively seeking applications under its affirmative action program.

The ACLU of Massachusetts (ACLUM) is a non-profit, public interest organization devoted to defending and preserving the civil rights and individual liberties guaranteed by the U.S. and Massachusetts constitutions and laws. To learn more about the work of the ACLU in Massachusetts and nationwide, please visit www.aclum.org and www.aclu.org.

Job Description: Please read complete job description at https://www.aclum.org/jobs before applying.

Qualifications: • Strong organizational skills, excellent attention to details and ability to manage multiple tasks, priorities and deadlines.

• A quick learner who takes the initiative to identify/analyze issues and resourceful when offering solutions to improve workplace environment and our financial systems and processes.

• A good attitude and sense of humor with demonstrated ability to work well with colleagues and staff at all levels within the organization.

• A strong knowledge of accounting to accurately record the organization’s transactions and monitor compliance with non-profit accounting principles.

• College degree or equivalent relevant experience.

• Experience with QuickBooks would be great but is not necessary.

Compensation:

Salary is based on experience and competitive with other nonprofit organizations. Excellent benefits include four weeks paid vacation, medical insurance, and self-directed 401(k) plan with company match.

How to Apply:

Applicants should send resume, references, and cover letter with salary requirements by email (no mail, phone calls or faxes, please) to jobs@aclum.org, with a subject line of “Bookkeeper/Office Manager Position.” Applications reviewed on a rolling basis through April 11th.

ACLUM is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and encourages women, people of color, persons with disabilities, and GLBT persons to apply.