Jennifer Bailey
Project Description Ms. Bailey’s project is the creation of the Praxis Media Collaborative (PMC), an online community that leverages emerging technologies in the field of digital storytelling to elevate the work of communities — exploring the intersection of faith and social justice. PMC will connect secular justice organizations to faith-based groups working on similar issues. …
Mosi Makori
Project Description The project will engage communities disproportionately impacted by the prison industrial complex, including the wrongfully convicted, through community-based and participatory action research and training to address the dehumanizing results of mass incarceration, primarily of people of color. The problem, according to Mr. Makori, is that mass incarceration and wrongful convictions have become so …
Dara Nussbaum-Vazquez
Project Description Ms. Nussbaum-Vazquez will work with the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative (BCDI) to design and launch an innovative business platform, with on- and off-line capabilities, that will build the infrastructure and test the potential for local businesses to capture procurement dollars leaking out of the Bronx. BCDI harnesses local assets and leverages the purchasing …