Our President & CEO, Donna Frisby-Greenwood was honored with the Community Education Award at the University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Interfaith Commemoration! The awards ceremony honored members of the Penn community who actively work for peace and the greater good, for justice, love, and peace in the model of King.
From Penn Today:
The annual Interfaith Commemoration of the Life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., held on Wednesday, March 23 in Houston Hall, has been a mainstay on Penn’s campus since the 1990s. The moving and meaningful event is part of the Penn MLK Commemorative Symposium on Social Change. For years, the event has been held in January in tandem with MLK day, and follows a day of service in the community. Like so many events, the omicron surge of the COVID-19 virus in late winter postponed the event, and this year, the ceremony preceded the service day.
This year’s event was sponsored by the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Committee, the Office of the Chaplain, the Office of the President, and the Urban Studies Program, with keynote speaker Liz Theoharis. A reverend and Penn alumna, Theoharis is co-chair of The Poor People’s Campaign and director of the Kairos Center for Religion, Rights, & Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary.
From the Penn Almanac:
Community Education Award in Honor of Dr. Judith Rodin
Donna Frisby-Greenwood is a lifelong educator who has served Philadelphia Schools as a teacher, as director of Children First, Inc., and After-School All-Stars. Nationally, Ms. Frisby-Greenwood directed Rock the Vote and served as a National Urban Fellow at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). She is now President and CEO of the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia.