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Hamilton, NJ

About Me: I'm a New Yorker currently living in New Jersey while working at a pretty cool eco-entrepreneurial company, and trying to enjoy my suburban surroundings. I am currently in training for the 2011 NYC Half Marathon (my longest race!), that is scheduled for Sunday March 20, which happens to also be my 27th birthday. I hope you'll learn more about my project and help grant me a birthday wish by donating to my cause!

One in three families in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Carnarsie and East Flatbush live below the poverty level, and 79% of children in these areas are born into poverty. Arrests are four times higher than the New York City average and violence-related deaths are as much as five times higher. School suspension rates and learning environment surveys indicate that the students in four new, small Title 1 (high poverty) public schools located in these neighborhoods face conflict almost daily. Before these smaller schools were created, the now-closed high schools at these campuses were the most violent in New York City. This is a legacy Urban Arts Partnership will not allow to continue. Therefore, Urban Arts has designed the CREW (Creative Responses For An Emerging World) project. Our mission is to teach students the value of appreciating and celebrating the differences in our communities, and to warn about the dangers of intolerance. High school students enrolled in the CREW project will become active citizens and artists on campaigns for non-violence and respect in their communities, thereby enabling them to constructively resolve conflict and improve the school environment.

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