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/Shari_Dunn
Shari Dunn (born 1968) is an American non-profit executive, journalist, and writer. She is the author of Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work (2025), and is known for her work in workplace equity, media, and public policy.[1][2]
STOMPing Back to Worcester
Daysha Williams ’17 keeps the beat onstage on national tour
Daysha Williams ’17 arrived in Worcester in February with a Nor’easter in the forecast and a table at Da-Lat awaiting her. It was like coming home.
Williams was back in the city with the touring company of STOMP, an inventive and explosive stage show in which the performers bang everyday items—from trash can covers to broomsticks to grocery carts—to create a percussive theatrical experience of music and movement.
“I drum on everything but a drum,” she says. “By the end of the show, you’re dripping with sweat. You leave everything on the stage.”
https://canvasrebel.com/meet-cameron-mccloud
We were lucky to catch up with Cameron McCloud recently and have shared our conversation below.
Putting together my first book should have been the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do, and it would have been if not for all the people I had helping me.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/28/g-s1-121470/cure-for-paranoia-tiny-desk-concert
Cure For Paranoia wants you to believe in yourself. Perseverance, plus a whole lot of talent, is what got the Dallas hip-hop collective to our space after submitting to the Tiny Desk Contest four years in a row.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floetry
Floetry is an English music duo formed in 1997 by singer Marsha Ambrosius (“the Songstress”) and spoken-word poet Natalie Stewart (“the Floacist”). They are known for their diverse musical and performance style referred to as “poetic delivery with musical intent”.[1][2][3]
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/g-s1-123334/floetry-tiny-desk-concert
Floetry made its way “from London’s SE5 to Philly’s west side just to bring the vibe” to the Tiny Desk. And with the poetic flows of Natalie Stewart (aka The Floacist) and a rich, floating soprano from Marsha Ambrosius (aka The Songstress), the vibe in our space was immaculate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantzdy_Pierrot
Frantzdy Pierrot (born 29 March 1995) is a Haitian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Süper Lig club Çaykur Rizespor, on loan from AEK Athens, and the Haiti national team.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherrilyn_Ifill
Sherrilyn Ifill (born December 17, 1962) is an American attorney and the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights (Vernon E. Jordan) at Howard University. She is a law professor and the former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.[1] She was the seventh president of the Legal Defense Fund, an organization that Thurgood Marshall founded in 1940. Ifill is a nationally recognized expert on voting rights and judicial selection.[2] In 2021, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual Time 100 list. In 2025, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[3]
Clark student’s nonprofit has plenty of sole
Jordan Adeyemi ’28 has been working for the last four years to channel his love of soccer into community service by co-founding and operating a nonprofit that donates new and gently used sports shoes to underserved youth.
Adeyemi and his 14-year-old brother Jason launched The Shoeless Ones in 2020 to deliver shoes to young people in the Atlanta area, where they grew up. The brothers made special donations of shoes to youth in the United Kingdom and in Nigeria in 2021, and Adeyemi hopes to have a more global reach in the future.
https://newplayexchange.org/users/28248/aaron-mays
Playwright and director Aaron Mays is an award-winning theatre artist based in Chicago. His latest play BLACK SANTA was one of four finalists to receive its world premiere at the 2024 Obsidian Theatre Festival. The play’s Southeast premiere took place at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center and City Theatre in December 2024.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_DeVore
Ophelia DeVore (August 12, 1921 – February 28, 2014) was an American businesswoman, publisher, and model.[1] She was the first model of African-American descent in the United States. In 1946, she helped establish the Grace Del Marco Agency, one of the first modeling agencies in America.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn
James Enos Clyburn (born July 21, 1940) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for South Carolina’s 6th congressional district. First elected in 1992, Clyburn is serving his 17th term, representing a congressional district that includes most of the majority-black precincts in and around Columbia and Charleston, as well as most of the majority-black areas outside Beaufort and nearly all of South Carolina’s share of the Black Belt. Since Joe Cunningham‘s departure in 2021, Clyburn has been the only Democrat in South Carolina’s congressional delegation as well as the dean of the state’s delegation since 2011 after fellow Democrat John Spratt lost re-election.