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...PBHA??s main values is community partnership,” says Lucerito L. Ortiz ’10, PBHA??s outreach officer and a former Summer Urban Program (SUP) counselor. “You can have good intentions, but without the context and history of where you’re working, you can do more harm than good...
...can’t just go in to fix what you think is a problem,” says Jennifer E. Graham ’08, a former coordinator and current counselor for PBHA??s Mission Hill After School Program (MHASP), which serves up to 50 children from two neighboring housing developments in Roxbury...
...Razon agrees Chen has more resemblance to Mother Theresa than a fun tsarina. “I make fun of her sometimes for having this terrible allergic reaction to peanuts,” Razon says. One time, he recalls, she was working for PBHA??s Summer Urban Program, and one program hadn’t received the lunch they expected. “They asked her ‘can you please make 60 peanut butter jelly sandwiches?’ Everyone else was tied up then, and so she sat in the back...
...named after Robert Coles ’50, who is a professor of psychiatry and medical humanities, to honor him for his commitment to social service. “Bob is the right symbol to be recognized,” Edelman said afterwards. Coles, whom Razon called one of PBHA??s most famous alumni, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his book “Children of Crisis” and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. Francis S. Assaf ’08, vice president of PBHA, recognized Coles’ importance as a professor...
Henry C. Agbo ’09, who met Fienning while participating in PBHA??s Summer Urban Program last summer, said that Fienning was an outgoing presence within the organization...