Dr. Janice Pride-Boone is a Board-Certified, Harvard-trained Pediatrician and
Certified Marriage and Family Therapist with additional training in Christian
Counseling. She earned her Doctor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in
Boston, MA and completed her residency at Johns Hopkins University Hospital
in Baltimore, MD and Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where she was
recognized as "Most Outstanding Teaching Resident". She received her
undergraduate degree in Biology with Honors from Barnard College of
Columbia University in New York City.

Dr. Pride-Boone is a specialist in pediatric obesity whose career spans over 30 years, having practiced, taught, managed and lead pediatric medicine in various settings from private practices, hospitals, public health clinics, public schools and universities, to correctional institutions for youth. Dr. Pride-Boone was recognized by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for her leadership in obesity, being appointed a Member of the AAP Subcommittee on Obesity and designated as an AAP coach in 2011.
Dr. Pride-Boone, has worked in the the Capital Region of upstate New York for a number of years and was awarded Physician of the Year Award in 2015. Dr. Pride-Boone has also practiced in New Orleans, LA and Memphis, TN where she was an early provider in the area of pediatric obesity. In 2003 while operating her own practice in New Orleans and seeing increasingly high rates of pediatric obesity and obesity-related diseases among teens and pre-teens, Dr. Pride-Boone founded Strong Me!, Inc., a Family-Focused Weight Management Program which continues to provide counseling to families.
Married to a business executive, Dr. Pride-Boone has also practiced in Las Vegas, Nevada, California, New Mexico and Atlantic City, New Jersey. She currently practices at CHP Berkshire Pediatrics and is a member of their Social Justice and Health Equities Sub-Committee.
Dr. Pride-Boone has been married for 42 years to Jerry Boone, the former Commissioner of the NYS Tax Department and Department of Civil Service. They are the proud parents of three successful children and now a grandmother. She enjoys reading, walking dogs, gardening and the study of Comparative Religions.

BIO

• RETIRED CULINARY EDUCATOR
• RETIRED EXECUTIVE FOOD SERVICE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
• RETIRED FOOD SERVICE DIRECTOR BERKSHIRE FARM CENTER AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH

THE PRESENT:

• PROUD FATHER OF FIVE & GRANDFATHER OF FOUR

• CONSULTANT FOOD SERVICE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

• COMMUNITY ACTIVIST

• PRESIDENT OF THE BERKSHIRE COUNTY BRANCH OF THE NAACP SINCE 2015
• STEERING COMMITTEE W. E. B. DU BOIS LECTURE SERIES
• VICE CHAIR CLINTON CHURCH RESTORATION PROJECT
• BOARD MEMBER RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT (RSYP)
•  MEMBER PITTSFIELD LICENSING BOARD
• MEMBER PITTSFIELD SCHOOL COMMITTEE

THE PAST:
·        Past Board Member: Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield Economic Revitalization ,  Berkshire County Regional Employment, Berkshire Center For Families and Children;  Past Chair - Advisory Council – MCAD;   Past Member Police Citizen Advisory Committee;  Past Member Alumni Board Pittsfield Boys Club;  I Am MAPP Certified (Massachusetts Approach To Partnerships In Parenting).    

Dr. Catherine L. Adams is an Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. She previously held teaching positions at three other Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): Allen University, the University of the Virgin Islands, and Paine College. Her research interests include: Africana literary history; Africana-based pedagogy and curriculum development; Africana science fiction, speculative fiction, and Afro-futurism; life and literary works of Frank G. Yerby; and freedom and maroonage narratives. ​

​Deepika Bains Shukla is and Assistant United States and Attorney and the Chief of the Springfield Branch Office of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.  She prosecutes federal criminal cases in the four Western counties of the Commonwealth.  Among her caseload are several civil rights, police excessive force, and hate crimes prosecutions.  Deepika lives in Northampton with her husband and her two children, who are seven and four years old.

​Sharon Albert Honore, Ph.D. is the former Chairperson and current Associate Professor of the Department of Communication, Art Theatre and Music at the University of the Virgin Islands on St. Thomas (STT) and St. Croix (STX). She is mass communication internship/faculty faculty advisor to Black News Channel HBCU Show, the UVI Voice 2.0, online student newspaper, and the state monitor for the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. Dr. Honore is also the founder/coordinator for the only film festival in the USUV territories, Caribbean Film & Artistic Cinematic Festival (CFACF) which was first first held on STX in 2019. Born in Dallas, and a native of Baton Rouge, she taught at numerous colleges and universities and lived in Denver, Colorado before moving to STX. Honore maintains that “‘my personal legend’ involves giving voice to those Unsung Heroes, of intergenerational countenance, who inspire and influence current and future society.” Honore believes these objectives may be accomplished through diligent research interpretation by scholars dedicated to oral and written history from peoples from the African diaspora. As the child of college educators Honore initially came under the influence of many unsung heroes in the close-knit, segregated, middle-class black suburb of Southern Heights, in Baton Rouge, La. Her sense of purpose and humanitarian values were shaped by men and women, who, though, ceremoniously unnoticed by mainstream society, served as models of inspiration to youth in their immediate communities. Honore says, “Access to unmeasurable knowledge was within my immediate grasp and a range of understanding [both intellectual and pragmatic] about the world at-large highlighted my daily existence.” As an adult, she maintains that her travels around the country led to insightful interactions with others from under-represented communities. Honore is the first African American to earn a a doctorate of philosophy in mass communications, (Journalism emphasis) Ph.D, from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. She also holds a Master of Arts (Humanities, African American World Studies) from the UI as well as Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees (Communications, Mass Communications respectively) from Southern University A&M College in Baton Rouge, La. Honore has worked for more than 25 years on the college level as faculty member and chair of mass media at various colleges and universities. The American Association of State Colleges and Universities selected Honore, along with ten other scholars from the U.S., to travel/study in Beijing, Shanghai and X’ian China via the China Study Initiative in 2018. In addition, she was also recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Association of African America Studies and Affiliates (NAAAS). This past summer, she was recognized as an outstanding editorial contributor to the Society of Environmental Journalism. Honore has served in the capacity of editor/writer/social media consultant and federal peer grant reviewer for many years and most recently works as marketing/pr coordinator for nonprofit organizations.

​Asma Abbas is Professor of Politics and Philosophy, and Director of Transdisciplinary and Experimental Studies, at Bard College at Simon's Rock, and associate faculty at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She is founding director at Hic Rosa (an art, education, and politics collective), and the Falsework School, committed to new modes of just and liberatory political, aesthetic, and cultural education. In the recent past, she has served as the Fulbright-Masaryk Distinguished Chair in Social Studies at Masaryk University, and Dean of Academics at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. Locating her work at the intersection of politics, ethics, and aesthetics, she is committed to transdisciplinary, anticolonial, antifascist, and materialist, political theory and practice.  She is the author of Liberalism and Human Suffering (2010) and Another Love: A Politics of the Unrequited (2018), and several essays in journals and edited volumes. She is currently at work on Anti-Odysseus: Fugues of the Non-Homeric. She lives between Richmond, Massachusetts and Karachi, Pakistan. 

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is a queer, second-generation Colombian immigrant, poet, artist, scholar, and activist. She is the author of the poetry collection The Inheritance of Haunting (2019), which won the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.

​Ejeris Dixon is an organizer and political strategist with 20 years of experience working in racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, and economic justice movements.  She is the Founding Director of Vision Change Win Consulting where she partners with organizations to build their capacity and deepen the impact of their organizing strategies.  She also serves as a consultant with RoadMap Consulting (www.roadmapconsulting.org) a national social justice consulting team.  From 2010 – 2013 Ejeris served as the Deputy Director, in charge of the Community Organizing Department at the New York City Anti-Violence Project where she directed national, statewide, and local organizing and advocacy initiatives on hate violence, domestic violence, police violence, and sexual violence.  From 2005 – 2010 Ejeris worked as the Founding Program Coordinator of the Safe OUTside the System Collective at the Audre Lorde Project where she worked on creating transformative justice strategies to address hate and police violence.    Her essay, ” Building Community Safety: Practical Steps Toward Liberatory Transformation, ” is featured in the anthology Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States. In January 2020, she co-edited a book with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha entitled Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement.

​Dr. Nadine Naber received her PhD at the University of California, Davis in Cultural Anthropology and Women’s Studies. She is currently a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For over fifteen years, Dr. Naber has been passionately mentoring radical scholars and scholar-activists. She has spent most of her academic career developing radical women of color, queer of color, and transnational feminist methodologies while implementing a politics of accountability between the university and social movements. She has served as a consultant, mentor, and trainer in all of these areas through programs like Training to Engaged Research; the Open Societies Foundation; and her side-gig, Naber Communications. She is the recipient of many awards related to social justice teaching, mentorship, and leadership such the Silver Circle Teaching Award at the University of Illinois at Chicago; the Earl and Edna Stice Social Justice Award at the Department of Women’s Studies University of Washington; and the YWCA Evanston’s Leadership Award (forthcoming 10/2020). She provides regular workshops on surviving academia without selling your soul (most recently at Syracuse University, March 2020 and Rutgers University, February 2020).

​Brianna Pope is the Three Point Strategies Operations Manager. She is the chief air traffic controller for Three Point and has been vital to the expansion and growth of major events, campaigns, and the financial operation. Brianna has coordinated the Movement for Black Lives Fellowship program, the major volunteer volunteer effort for the She the People Presidential Forum, and even served as the Interim Campaign Manager for Lesley McSpadden for Ferguson City Council Campaign.
Brianna is a playwright, fiction writer, and avid reader. She is a graduate of Bard College and was born and raised in San Diego California. Brianna is made up of California sunshine, sarcasm and abundance, naps, text love letters with her sister, and cooking the perfect steak.

"I am the former 1st Ward Alderman on the Hudson Common Council. I chaired, the Police Committee and the Youth, Education, Seniors & Recreation Committee. As chair, I have successfully facilitated difficult community conversations and pushed for better and more effective services for Hudson residents. I am the youngest and 1st African American to hold the office of Mayor of the city of Hudson.

I grew up in Hudson. I graduated from Columbia Greene Community College in 2005, and from SUNY New Paltz in 2007, with degrees in History and Early Childhood Education.

​I am the former Co-Director of the Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood, a non-profit organization that supports children growing up in the Hudson City School District. I’m the Coordinator of POPS, a community fatherhood initiative. And I’m a co-host of the Drive Time Radio Show on WGXC: 90.7-FM."

Nancy Wellington Bookhart is an Assistant Professor of Art at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, where she also serves as the chair of the Department of Humanities. She is the founder of The Museum Initiative at the College. The arts initiative fosters a philosophical examination of the traditional framework of art and the humanities through exhibitions, educational programs, and lecture series. Ms. Bookhart is a Ph.D. (ABD) at IDSVA, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, where she is involved in research that interrogates the politics of race and alterity as belonging first to the epistemological divide in the West concretized through science, technology, and art. Her dissertation examines the work of 18th century Enlightenment thought and the pseudo-science, physiognomy, and its correlation to the work of the artist, Kara Walker. She argues Walker’s work as belonging to the aesthetic regime of art. In the aesthetic regime of art, the image performs as an equilibrium of perception in the fashioning of a common world. ​