We are three days away!
Are you ready to be moved?
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Friends,
Our annual storytelling event is just three days away! Have you bought your ticket yet? We hope you will tune in to our first virtual fundraiser to hear powerful stories, while supporting our mission to keep students in school. Buy your tickets today and read on for all the great details
Friday, May 22, 2020
7 p.m.-7:30 p.m. PowerPoint Presentation
7:30 p.m. Livestream Show Begins!
(link to the livestream will be shared before the event)
Co-Hosts
- Jessica "Decky" Alexander (Professor and Director, Engage@EMU at Eastern Michigan University) and Derrick Jackson, Director at the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office.
Storytellers:
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Leo Sheng, a star of Showtime's The L Word: Generation Q, a trans activist, and a former SAC intern who grew up in Ypsilanti and was active as a teen at Neutral Zone.
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Marina Jimenez, a Ferris State University student who became a 4.0 college student after experiencing foster care and family loss.
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Daicia Price, LMSW, Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan, who will share her personal experience of being kicked out of school and navigating homelessness.
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Jasmine Williams, a Pioneer High School junior, will perform a story of one of SAC’s clients. Williams loves to sing, write music, and read. She is an advocate for students gaining access to all options available to them and acquiring the same education as everyone else.
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EMU Theatre Students (CloseUp Alumni Members) are performing a theatre piece called "Please Hold.” This piece was created through the medium of a soundscape intertwined with monologues of truth, despair, desperation and a need for help and most of all answers. A soundscape is a concoction of chaotic sounds meant to transport the audience member's minds to live and breathe in the world being created. "Please Hold" will take you out of your seat and into the office.
Performers
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A special performance by the viral Instagram sensation the “Aint Afraid” twins (from Ypsilanti).
You can support SAC by purchasing a ticket or donating today. Stay safe and healthy.
Warmly,
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Did you buy your ticket already?
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Did you purchase your ticket for Telling Tales Out of School already? Great! We can't wait to see you on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Once you buy a ticket, the link to the Youtube livestream will be sent to you.
Feel free to email us with questions you may have at contact@studentadvocacycenter.org.
Check out videos from past years on our YouTube Channel. |
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Sign the cards for our awardees
Since we can't be together to recognize our awardees, we are asking everyone to sign the cards for our awardees Kelly Mickel, principal at Erickson Elementary School (pictured at the right above) and Linda Edwards-Brown, who recently retired from the Washtenaw County Trial Court.
The link to both cards is below:
Linda: https://www.groupgreeting.com/sign/1281ed1124b89a8
Kelly: https://www.groupgreeting.com/sign/dead2dea83e53a7
Linda Edwards-Brown is being recognized for outstanding service as a community member committed to underserved students, social justice and education for all.
Kelly Mickel is being recognized for outstanding service as an educator committed to underserved students, social justice and education for all.
Congrats to both of these phenomenal women!
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SPONSORS
A HUGE Thank You To Our Sponsors.
Academic All-Star
Kris and Dave Denzin
Neil and Annmarie Hawkins
Michigan Medicine
Nancy Wheeler
Ruth & Andy Zweifler
Honor Roll
Bank of Ann Arbor
Joan Binkow
David & Jennifer Haines
Graduate
Arbor Teas, John Austin, former President of the State Board of Education and Donor from Austin Memorial Foundation, Brendernitz, Wagner & CO., P.C., Climb Marketing, Maggie Gibbons, Dykema Gossett, PLLC, Dr. Percy Bates, Angelos and Kathy Constantinides, Lidia and Aaron Kraft, Geoffrey Larcom, Ethel Lee, Michigan Virtual, Judy Martin and Lynn Jondahl, NewFoundry, NSF International, Marianne Udow-Phillips and Bill Phillips, Rhyan Zweifler - Noetic Search, The Oginsky Family, Layton and Daicia Price, Retirement Income Solutions, Spring-Nichols Family, Chuck Warpehoski and Nancy Shore, and Dwight Wilson.
Empty Chair Sponsors
Brewed Awakenings, Bunek Dental Studio, Mary Jo Callan, Found Gallery, Francisco Sanchez, Ginsberg Center, Sen. Jeff Irwin, Andy LaBarre, Rep. Donna Lasinksi, MAIZ Mexican Cantina and Rep. Ronnie Peterson
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Host Committee
Jessica Ashmore
Donna DeButts, Volunteer with Washtenaw Literacy
Elisa Guyton
Jeff Guyton
Carrie and Greg Hammerman
Pat MacQuarrie
Maria Sheler-Edwards, Trustee, Ypsilanti Community Schools Board of Education
Erin Schaffer, LMSW
Harvey A. Somers
Michael Steinberg, Civil Rights Litigation Initiative, University of Michigan Law School
Denise Tanguay and Jonathan Dean
Kristen and Matt Hamilton
Rich Tolman and Naomi Woloshin
Ruth Kraut and Michael Appel
Yoline Williams, MS, BSN, RN, Lincoln Consolidated Schools Board of Education President
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Planning Committee
Carole Bennett
Amy Frontier
Carrie Hernandez
Carrie Hammerman
Kevin Hillman
Jeff Guyton
Patii Smith
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