The Office of Community Service presents the final Community LEAP guest speaker event of the semester! Stephanie Guirand (she/her) is a founding member of The Black Response Cambridge that has convened the participatory action process for developing the Cambridge Holistic Emergency Alternative Response Team (HEART) model. She is the board resident of Cambridge HEART and is working with other TBR staff and the HEART coalition to implement Cambridge HEART.
Guirand is a formerly undocumented immigrant from Haiti and has lived in Cambridge for over 25 years. She identifies as a cis-woman and has a non-visible disability (history of seizures formerly considered epileptic). Guirand holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut, a master's degree from the University of London, SOAS, and is currently a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London in the Sociology Department. Guirand is a gender specialist who identifies as a Black radical intersectional feminist. Her thesis focuses on housing policy and housing transience.
The Community LEAP Guest Speaker Series is sponsored by the Lesley Office of Multicultural Affairs & Social Inclusion.
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