Suk Rhee
Suk Rhee joined the Office of Community & Civic Life (formerly the Office of Neighborhood Involvement) as Director in August 2017. Prior to that, she served as Vice President of Strategy and Community Partnership at Northwest Health Foundation, where she led organizational efforts to align strategic thinking and programs for Foundation effectiveness and community impact. Including her tenure at the Foundation, some of her most meaningful professional experiences have been working with a wide range of organizations and sectors to increase the participation and influence of communities in the decisions that impact their lives. This has included serving as program director for an operating foundation engaging young people in the political process, program coordinator for a statewide association of community health centers and organizer for a bi-national network of community, labor, Native and student groups pursuing environmental and economic justice.
Suk immigrated to this country as a child and grew up in North Carolina. She received her master’s degree in whole systems design from Antioch University and bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College.
Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program
Suk Rhee is an alumni of the Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program.[1]
SEAC, 1995 conference
This October 13-15, 1995, Student Environmental Action Coalition returned to its roots at UNC-Chapel Hill to host ts fourth National Conference. The conference will bring young people together from all over the country to learn more about current environmental issues.
Partial speakers list;
- Vandana Shiva (Third World Network)
- Barbara Dudley (Executive Director, Greenpeace)
- Cecilia Rodriguez (USA spokesperson for National Commission for Democracy in Mexico and the EZLN)
- Laura Flanders (FAIR, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
- Jeannette Galanis (President, USSA)
- Lina Cabaero (Asian Student Association)
- Si Kahn (Director, Grassroots Leadership)
- Rebecca Flores Harrington (United Farm Workers)
- Guy Lopez (International Indian Treaty Council)
- Suk Rhee (Southwest Network for Environmental & Economic Justice)
- Spring Diep (Asian Immigrant Women Advocates)
- Rich Cowan (Center for Campus Organizing)
- Abbie Illenberger (Empty the Shelters, Atlanta)[2]
External links
References
- ↑ Center for Third World Organizing website: Alumni Network (accessed on Aug. 16, 2010)
- ↑ National Conference 1995