Cambridge, the "Welcoming City that Values Diversity" History Café

When:
Thursday, Jun 28, 2018 6:30p -
8:00p

Where:
Hong Kong Restaurant
1238 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
$8-10

Event website:
https://thewelcomingcitythatvaluesdiversityhistorycafe.eventbrite.com

Description:


"Where is Cambridge From?" History Cafe 2: Cambridge, the "Welcoming City that Values Diversity"


Join us for a conversation with City Councilor and former Mayor E. Denise Simmons and Jen Deaderick, where we'll be talking about how and why Cambridge came to identify as a welcoming city that values diversity, and what that looks like for the people of Cambridge in the past and present.


Speaker:


City Councilor E . Denise Simmons is a former two-term Mayor of Cambridge, currently serving her 9th term on the City Council. Councilor Simmons has spent her adult life working to better her community. In 2008, she drew national attention when she became the nation’s first Black, openly lesbian mayor (and the first Black female mayor in Massachusetts). During her time in office, she has been particularly focused on working to preserve and increase the city’s stock of affordable housing, and also leads efforts to open up job training opportunities for greater numbers of Cambridge residents. In addition to being a policy maker, she continually works to see that everybody has a voice in the conversations that shape the Cambridge community. Read more on the Cambridge city website: https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/citycouncil/citycouncilmembers/denisesimmons.


Jen Deaderick


Jen Deaderick has written on gender and citizenship for the Huffington Post, Dame Magazine, and the New York Times. Her illustrated history of women’s citizenship, She The People, will be published by Seal Press in the spring of 2019. She has lived in Cambridge with her kid for nearly a decade and hopes to never leave. Read more on her website: https://www.jendeaderick.com/.

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