Communities That Care Coalition
Promoting health, well-being, and equity among young people in Franklin County and the North Quabbin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Hoffman
Sylvia Hoffman (born June 29, 1989, in Philadelphia[1]) is an American bobsledder who was first discovered and recruited for the national bobsled team on The Next Olympic Hopeful.[2] She is originally from Arlington, TX[3] and attended Louisiana State University Shreveport.[2] Before bobsledding she was a college basketball player and participated in weightlifting.[2]
Attorney Lizana is the great-grandson of T.J. Huddleston Sr. (featured in the photograph on the right), a prominent African American entrepreneur and community leader who is famous for having built the first black hospital in the State of Mississippi, and who is also proudly remembered as the founder of the Afro-American Sons and Daughters Grand Lodge. Attorney Lizana taught Employment Law, as an Adjunct Professor at Western New England University School of Law, and is an Adjunct Professor in Bay Path University’s Masters degree program in Higher Education Administration.
Author of the bestselling book “Workplace Jujitsu: How to Protect Yourself from HR“, Attorney Lizana is a frequent speaker and presenter at professional conferences and seminars on topics related to Higher Education Law, Employment Law, Discrimination, Diversity Management and EEO compliance.
Lazarus Kgasi walks with ease across a gently rolling landscape about an hour’s drive outside of Pretoria, South Africa. A few trees are sprinkled here and there but it’s mostly grass. Kgasi, a tall man with a big smile, knows the place well.
“We are going to see a fossil site in the Cradle of Humankind,” he says, referring to the UNESCO World Heritage site that has produced a stunning trove of early hominid fossils, helping prove that the African continent was indeed the birthplace of humanity.
“This is where the story started,” says Kgasi, age 52. “Every fossil here help[s] us to reconstruct the past — to tell the story of where do we come from.”
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10085932/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_ql_1
Julio is known as Julito Gastón and is a percussionist and music producer. He works as Bad Bunny‘s Musical Director. In April 2025 he appeared playing at the Tiny Desk with the famous Puerto Rican musician.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaysha_Love
Kaysha Love (born September 24, 1997) is an American bobsledder and former collegiate sprinter. She attended and competed in track and field at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, where she was a two-time Second Team All-American (2017–2018). She was Utah’s 2016 Gatorade State Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year in high school. She represented the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics, where she competed in the two-woman bobsled.
She is competing in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Simader
Sabrina Wanjiku Simader (born 13 April 1998[1]) is an alpine skier from Kenya.
Simader was born in Kilifi, Kenya and moved to Austria when she was three years old with her Kenyan mother and Austrian step-father.[2][3] Her step-father owned a ski lift and trained Simader in skiing during her childhood.[4] She grew up in Sankt Johann am Wimberg and later the family moved to Haus im Ennstal from where Simader would go to Schihauptschule Schladming, one of the few secondary schools focussed on skiing in Austria.[5][6]
Poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator Regie Gibson has performed, taught, and lectured at schools, universities, theaters and various other venues on two continents and in seven countries including Havana Cuba. Regie and his work appear in the New Line Cinema film love jones, based largely on events in his life. The poem entitled “Brother to the Night (A Blues for Nina)” appears on the movie soundtrack and is performed by the film’s star, Larenz Tate. Regie performed “Hey Nappyhead” in the film with world-renowned percussionist and composer Kahil El Zabar, composer of the score for The Lion King musical.
Massachusetts Poet Laureate Regie Gibson headlined an event celebrating Black History Month and the intergenerational power of Black art on Saturday at the African Meeting House, reading several of his poems and participating in a panel discussion.
Gibson involved the audience in some of his poetry, using a call-and-response format for poems including “Let’s Take it Back.”
Stevenson Savart, 25, made history Sunday as the first man to represent Haiti in cross-country skiing at the Winter Games.
After serving as Haiti’s flagbearer at the Opening Ceremony, Savart caught the heart of the crowd while making his Olympic debut in the men’s skiathlon. As he crossed the finish line in 64th place, the fans cheered him on and he took a bow.
“The goal is still to try and achieve the best possible performance and to push my limits. It’s an immense source of pride and great happiness to wear this outfit and we’re trying to be symbols for our small country,” Savart said in French in a video posted on Instagram, “and give them hope, because right now they are going through a rather dark period, so we’re trying to shine a light on small countries.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tye_Tribbett
Thomas Tyrone “Tye” Tribbett (born January 26, 1976) is an American gospel music songwriter, composer, singer, and multi-instrumental musician.[1] Tye Tribbett is best known for his blending in various subgenres in Gospel Music, which each aim and vision of his music serving the specific era it is in.. He served the role of choir director and founder of the Grammy-nominated and Stellar Award-winning gospel choir Tye Tribbett & G.A. (short for ‘Greater Anointing.’)[2]
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1163988915/tye-tribbett-tiny-desk-concert
It was a bit of a tight fit, getting the choir, horns and full rhythm section properly situated behind the center nook of the Desk where Tye Tribbett would eventually stand.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/28/nx-s1-5631779/ai-schools-teachers-students
Stacks of worksheets sit atop desks and tables in Chanea Bond’s Fort Worth classroom. Her students all have their own school-issued laptops, but Bond has swapped computers for paper — lots of paper.
Each class begins with several minutes of journaling in notebooks, and nearly all assignments must be handwritten and physically turned in.