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Audio: Neighborhood College Program

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Neighborhood Women members, Sally Martino Fisher, Dianne Jackson, Aline Copanelli and Florence Mansillo, share their experiences as students from the NW College Program. Jan Peterson, NW founder, and Christine Noschese, Ann Giordano, Ginger Maresco, Laura Polla Scanlon, as well as other former directors and teachers in the College Program, explain the relevance of the program as a tool to empower women so they transform not only their own lives, but that of their whole communities. This audio can be used as a guide to open a College Program in your own neighborhood.

Movie: Activist Bertha Gilkey

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60 minutes featuring Housing Activist Bertha Gilkey.

“We’re a neighborhood, not a project”, states Bertha Gilkey with conviction. As an outspoken productive Housing Activist, Bertha Gilkey of St. Louis made it her life’s work to give back the tenants their homes. She inspires Project Housing residents to become active within their communities and not live solely by the Housing Authority’s regulations.

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