Register for Black Appalachian Young & Rising!

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The last day of registration for the Black Appalachian Young and Rising Gathering November is this Sunday, October 27th! You are not going to want to miss this historic gathering!  The gathering will be November 8th-10th at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Pine Mountain, KY. Black Appalachian Young & Rising will be a space for Black Appalachian youth to gather, to be in community, to define Black Appalachian joy and identity, and create a strategy for restoring Black youth leadership in Appalachia. Additionally, Black Appalachian Young and Rising is excited to announce that we will be kicking off programming on Friday evening with dinner and a grounding session featuring four honored guests: Charice Starr- A 2019-2020 Bertha Fellow, Black Appalachian Young & Rising Consultant, Co-Director of the Appalachian Transition Fellowship and Education team member at the Highlander Education and Research Center, and a community organizer with the Black Mamas BailOut Action (Knoxville, TN). William H. Turner, PhD, is a semi-retired college professor and administrator (Kentucky State University - Interim President; Vice President for Diversity, University of Kentucky; and Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Studies, Berea College). He has spent most of the last half century researching and writing and serving in various ways to expand the understanding about black people in Appalachia and improving community life among the economically marginalized. Before that he was learning all about life growing up in a big extended family and vibrant black community in a town where coal was king, in Harlan County, Kentucky. Turner co-edited the groundbreaking book, Blacks in Appalachia. Joe Tolbert, a founding STAY Project member and Founder and Lead Strategist at Art at the Intersections. Elandria Williams - a founding member of STAY, Executive Director and Trainer at PeoplesHub. She also provides development support to cooperatives, mostly in the Southern United States, and is a co-editor of Beautiful Solutions, a project that is gathering some of the most promising and contagious stories, solutions, strategies and big questions for building a more just, democratic, and resilient world! If you have any questions about the gathering please feel free to reach out to Mekyah Davis at mekyahdavis.stayproject@gmail.com ***This event is a free event only for Black youth between the ages of 14-30 from throughout the Central and Southern Appalachian region- if you have any questions about this please feel free to reach out to us at stayproject@gmail.com*   There is a $10,000 goal to cover the event and to pay the Black youth who are doing the work to make it happen. The STAY Project is asking you to invest in this important work by making a donation today. Donate to support Black Futures in Appalachia Share Tweet Forward Copyright © *|CURRENT_YEAR|* *|LIST:COMPANY|*, All rights reserved. *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|* *|LIST:DESCRIPTION|* Our mailing address is: *|HTML:LIST_ADDRESS_HTML|* *|END:IF|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. *|IF:REWARDS|* *|HTML:REWARDS|* *|END:IF|*