Did you know MLK Day is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities? In observance of the national MLK Day of Service, NYC Service invites New Yorkers to participate in our local “MLK Day of Civic Action” on Monday, January 18. For this day of civic action, NYC Service will promote projects that advance equity and racial justice throughout the city. Join AmeriCorps members, City employees, and nonprofit partners in virtual and in-person service projects.
To view a listing of service projects occurring on or around MLK Day, visit the NYC Service website and the national MLK Day of Service website. If your organization is interested in hosting volunteers for the “MLK Day of Civic Action”, please register your opportunity with NYC Service and MLK Day of Service.
Share your MLK Day service experiences on social media! We encourage all of our partner organizations to promote your activities on social media, regardless of whether you are hosting an NYC Service project or creating your own. Check out our “MLK Day of Civic Action” social media kit for hashtags and sample posts and images.
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This program is part of “Agents of Change in an Interdependent World,” a series of programs, cosponsored by the Culture as Diplomacy Initiative of Asia Society and the John Brademas Center of New York University, which examines issues in “interdependency,” to describe our globalized and interconnected world. The circumstances we are living in today requires us to connect globally, to share and grapple with the pressing, emerging, threatening challenges that transcend borders. This program is presented in collaboration with OneShared.World.
Following the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution and the election of the first woman of color as Vice President in the nation’s history, this year’s program will highlight creative women who are at the vanguard of change agents in society.
The program will be introduced by Ruchira Gupta and will feature a keynote discussion with Gloria Steinem and Julie Taymor, discussing Steinem’s lifelong commitment to women’s rights as told through the biopic The Glorias, directed by Taymor. This will be followed by a panel discussion, moderated by Olga Garay English with Sayu Bhojwani , Erika Dickerson-Despenza, reflecting new generation of women change agents and new approaches to this moevement. The program will end with a spoken word performance.
Our presenters will speak to the inspiring ways in which culture, arts, and creativity are giving voice to a new generation of women’s activism. They are visionaries, working as individuals and with emerging groups to create new alliances for change. A common thread uniting them all is the conviction that creative thinking offers new ways of connecting, breaking down walls, and inspiring change. Through imagination, activism, and passion, these women have brought together new vision to create a more interdependent world in which we can work together to tackle some of our most pressing challenges.
By hearing the voices of women who are actually doing this work, we hope to inspire our audience with new models of change and promote new connections among an emerging interdependent community.