Wick Neighbors, Inc. and Youngstown 2010 present ...

Smoky Hollow Project

 

         Who Speaks for the Neighborhoood? 

       Who Sets the Neighborhood

      Agenda?

 

Wednesday, November 8

7-9 PM

Butler Institute of American Art

 

Purpose: Focus on the importance of empowering neighborhood residents to improve and shape the physical, social and economic infrastructure of their neighborhood.

 

Speaker:      

 

Philip Star: Director, Center for Neighborhood Development, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, will discuss techniques residents can use to empower themselves to improve their  neighborhoods.

 

Panelists:

 

Kirk Noden, Lead Organizer, ACTION ( Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing Our Neighborhoods)

Jackie Austin, ACTION Board Member

Mark Peyko, President, North Side Citizens' Coalition

 

Moderator: Margaret L. Murphy , Executive Director, Wick Neighbors, Inc.