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Our guest speaker on Friday April 4th was Debra Lampert-Rudman, the current Executive Director of the People & Stories/Gente Y Cuentos program in Princeton. Debra began with P&S/GyC as Communications Manager following her work as Curator of Education & Public Programs with Morven Museum & Garden.
People & Stories/Gente y Cuentos (P&S/GyC) is dedicated to opening doors to literature for new audiences through oral readings and rigorous discussions of enduring short stories. Over the years they developed a methodology that has effectively connected more than 40,000 lives to literature, with trained coordinators conducting programs in both English and Spanish in various parts of the United States as well as in Argentina.
The Princeton Corridor Rotary guest speaker on April 11 was Jerry He. As Executive Director of CARTS ( Corporation for Automated Road Transportation Safety ), a non-profit think tank, Jerry leads a team of engineers and urban planners who are engaged in researching how the roll out of mobility innovations such as autonomous vehicles will impact communities. The goal is to come up with people-focused design recommendations that strengthen community interaction.
CARTS’ featured project currently is Trenton moves which “will provide safe, equitable, affordable and sustainable high-quality mobility through the deployment of 100 Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) throughout Trenton” while serving 90,000 residents.
On April 11, The Princeton Corridor Rotary was proud to present Callie Crowder, the Executive Director of The Maker’s Place “Diaper Depot” with a check for their organization. Presenting the check to Callie is Princeton Corridor Rotary Club President Stephen Francis.
The Maker’s Place is a diaper bank and hope center sponsored by United Methodists of Greater New Jersey. Launched in 2018, the Maker’s Place is a resource center that serves less fortunate communities in the area.
On Friday April 25th, The Princeton Corriidor Rotary was proud to assist the Princeton Blairstown Center in packaging dozens of “rainy day” bags and “fun” bags for the Princeton Blairstown Center participants.. Joining us was Meredith Murray, the VP of External Affairs for the Center. The Center was started in 1908 by a group of Princeton University faculty and students. Its initial focus was providing inner-city youngsters with exposure to the outdoors. The Princeton-Blairstown Center is now an outdoor education center that serves young people, primarily from historically marginalized communities, by nurturing their social-emotional skills through experiential, environmental, and adventure-based programming.
