Chris Carr Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Black Land Ownership is a grassroots organization, founded by Christopher Banks Carr and Melissa Hunter Gurney, to combat the historical, systematic and institutionalized marginalization experienced by people of African descent, worldwide.OUR MISSIONShort term: our goal is to centralize information, identify opportunities and empower Black people to purchase land - specifically in rural areas. Long term: we aim to fund land projects that support the Black community artistically, economically and educationally as well as connect the worlds of social justice, environmental protection, permaculture and sustainability.Black land ownership is a human rights issue.Our research, although specific to the Black community, unequivocally reveals the need to raise awareness for other marginalized groups — women, trans, indigenous, migrants — with limited resources or capital.

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Acted as a community liaison and advisor for the start-ups founding team as they built a program that encouraged community relationships by having gatherings in people’s houses, backyards, living rooms, basements and other intimate/personal spaces Sourced, screened and conducted behavioral based interviews.Supported them in ensuring that they included communities of African descent and worked with them in creating outreach materials and a website that was clearly inclusive of the diverse communities in New York City. Began working with them as an official equity advisor in 2020 Developing their diversity inclusion and equity policy from the ground up and implementing an ongoing series of workshops focused on diversity equity and inclusion

New York, United States

Multi-tiered Approach to Enhancing CRE Worked with Frances Perkins Academy to implement an ongoing series of Socratic Seminars around issues of identity, equity, and diversity utilizing art as an entry point to discourse and research. Supported the transition of Frances Perkins Academy as it combined with Automotive High School to create one school community now known as A-Tech High School Designed and implemented a semester worth of professional development for the staff of A-Tech High School around issues of equity and diversity with a focus on: culturally relevant education, decolonized research and a multicultural interdisciplinary approach catalyzed by existential pedagogy. Collaborated on the development of a school culture that encourages scholasticism, solidarity and support for students who are often underserved by the public school system i.e. young black men and women, members of the school community they were queer and trans, and folks of various international origins. Presented a workshop and sat on a panel in Detroit at the COSEBOC conference, where we led presentations for national scholars, researchers, community workers and educators relating to equity in classrooms, the history of colonialism in education and how to provide new solutions to age old problems in terms of diversity, opportunity and student success.Developing an interdisciplinary education program rooted in the existential crisis and student driven education in the New York city public school system and have various teaching artist that go into high schools middle schools and afterschool programs

Brooklyn Ny

Provide a supportive network for independently oriented, self owned, nontraditional artists with a focus on providing a platform for the voices of marginalized, underrepresented groups across the vast spectrum of diversity that is New York City.Organize thousands of events, discussions, meetups, activities, and online engagements Host an annual festival that's become the largest independent multicultural arts and community festival in Brooklyn (no corporate sponsors, no NGOS, no huge private donors).Fundraise for global and national catastrophes, wars, issues of widespread violence and systemic oppression including the earthquake in Nepal, organizations that seek to prevent domestic violence and to increase awareness about domestic violence and groups working to bring community members together to address the conflict in Israel/Palestine.Organize activities and marches geared towards police reform and the end of police brutality Open up space for action based organizations focused on putting an end to the current forms of abuse in the prison industrial complexHost and facilitate at tech conferences exploring new technologies such as Blockchain, virtual reality, machine learning and AI specifically focusing on how to make sure people of African descent, women, trans folks and other marginalized groups are included as technology evolves.

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Medieval Studies Master'S Program

Activities and Societies: CTV (campus TV), WBAR (campus radio show)I was doing a MA program in medieval studies with a concentration.

B.A., Sociology, Psychology, Religion