Local Community Organizations Seek Greater
Collaboration
July 2005
A number of local student and community-based organizations
met recently at USM's Lewiston Auburn College to discuss opportunities
for greater collaboration in order to better serve the Lewiston-Auburn
community. Joint programming, information sharing, and a calendar
of events were some of the ideas discussed. The first joint
venture of this new collaboration will be an event to be held
on September 11th. This community event will include discussions
of the effects of 9/11 on American society, federal funding
and the war on terror, immigrant experiences, and how these
challenges are being met on the local and national levels.
Participating in this meeting were standing, left to right:
Khadra Jama, ISOLA (International Students Organization of
Lewiston-Auburn) Kate Brennan, Many and One Coalition, Matt
Graham, Andover College, Sarah Wood, Sexual Assault Crisis
Center, Senator Peggy Rotundo, Bates College Center of Service-Learning,
Ismail Ahmed, ISOLA, Dr. Barry Rodrigue, USM/L-A, Kat Perry,
AWAP, Mary Sylvain-Leonas, USM/L-A, and Abdirizak Mahboub,
ACEDONE (African Community Economic Development of New England).
Seated left to right are Bob Carroll, New Beginnings, Jake
Grindle, Maine People's Alliance, Michelle Vazquez-Jacobus
(holding little Sophia) USM/L-A, and Christy Hammer, USM/L-A.
