The public is invited to an evening with Ruby Sales and Staceyann Chin
as part of the Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative 2019
Summer Institute.ABOUT RUBY NELL SALES
Ruby Nell Sales is the founder and director of The SpiritHouse
Project, a social justice organization that brings multi-ethnic
people and intergenerational communities together in a process of
community formation. Ms. Sales is a highly-trained, experienced, and
deeply-committed social activist, scholar, administrator, manager,
public theologian, and educator in the areas of Civil, Gender, and
other Human Rights. She is an excellent public speaker, with a proven
track record in conflict resolution and consensus building. Ms. Sales
has preached around the country on race, class, gender, and
reconciliation, and she has done ground-breaking work on community and
non-violence formation. Ms. Sales also serves as a national convener
of the Every Church A Peace Church Movement.
ABOUT STACEYANN CHIN
Staceyann Chin is the recipient of the 2007 Power of the Voice Award
from The Human Rights Campaign, the 2008 Safe Haven Award from
Immigration Equality, the 2008 Honors from the Lesbian AIDS Project,
the 2009 New York State Senate Award, the 2013 American Heritage Award
from American Immigration Council, and the 2016 Planned Parenthood
Excellence in Media award. Chin is also a 2017 LGBTQ Humanist Award
recipient. She unapologetically identifies as Caribbean and Black,
Asian and lesbian, woman and resident of New York City.
A proud Jamaican National, STACEYANN’s voice was featured on
the _Oprah Winfrey Show_, where she spoke candidly about her
experiences of growing up on the island and the dire consequences of
her coming-out there.
Widely known as co-writer and original performer in the Tony award
winning, _Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway,_ her poetry
has seen the rousing cheers of the Nuyorican Poets' Café, one-woman
shows Off-Broadway, writing-workshops in Sweden, South Africa, and
Australia. Chin’s three one-woman shows, HANDS AFIRE, UNSPEAKABLE
THINGS, and BORDER/CLASH all opened to rave reviews at the Culture
Project in New York City.
STACEYANN IS THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMOIR, _The Other Side of
Paradise, _and is currently touring _MotherStruck_, her critically
acclaimed solo theater piece, directed by Cynthia Nixon, and produced
by Rosie O’Donnell, chronicling her incredible experiences about
motherhood, which opened in New York, in December, of 2015.
Be it on “60 Minutes,” in the _New York Times, _or_ The UK
guardian,_ Staceyann has a reputation for telling it exactly like it
is.
Throughout history, there have been many inspirational women who have
impacted the fight for social and racial justice. We are fortunate to
host two of these amazing women at this year's Institute.
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