Providence Preservation Society's Annual Meeting

Please join us for PPS's Annual Meeting, where we will report on the organization's activities in 2024, give a preview of what is to come in 2025 and elect new board members. The event will be held this year at Southside Cultural Center of Rhode Island, 393 Broad Street; the evening includes a keynote address given by Sandra Lobo and a reception following the program.

Keynote Address

What If We Owned It? The Kingsbridge Armory and the Fight for Community-led Economic Development in the Bronx.

Sandra Lobo, Executive Director of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC), will discuss the 30-year organizing fight to redevelop the Kingsbridge Armory; the most recent community visioning process that engaged thousands of Bronxites to reimagine the Armory as an engine for community wealth creation; and NWBCCC's historic proposal to transform the Armory into a community-owned asset that is of the Bronx and for the Bronx, built on union labor, and firmly rooted in our residents, businesses, and institutions.

About Sandra

Sandra Lobo currently serves as the Executive Director of the Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC), a 50 year old member-led organization that unites diverse people and institutions to fight for racial and economic justice through intergenerational organizing. The NWBCCC organizes campaigns and initiatives around equitable economic and community development, health justice, environmental sustainability, school to Pr*son pipeline, and safe affordable housing. A first generation immigrant and resident of the Bronx for 30 years, Sandra has worked to develop leadership of color, creating long term organizational sustainability, and build community shared wealth and ownership and collective governance over local assets through an anti-racist lens. Sandra is trained in anti-oppression organizing and leadership development incorporating a restorative justice framework. She served as Director of the Dorothy Day Center for Service and Justice at Fordham University for 17 years, building university community partnerships, shifting the focus of the Center’s work from a charity to a justice model. Sandra has served on several boards, including the Simon Bolivar Foundation, Robert Sterling Foundation Advisory Council and currently serves on the Bronx Community Land Trust and is the President at the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative. Sandra has a Masters in Social Work with a focus on Community Organizing and a BA in Urban Studies from Fordham University. She lives, works and worships in the Bronx raising her two children, Amelia and Tiago.

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