Community Evening

7:00 – 9:30pm

You’re invited to YES!’s Community Evening on Saturday, August 23rd from 7 – 9:30 PM at the Center for urbanPEACE in Berkeley. The evening will feature an inspiring program, new and old friends, and delicious vegan & organic refreshments. We would greatly appreciate your RSVP as soon as you know whether or not you are able to join us.

YES!’s Community Evening will include an intimate conversation with our Program Partners, Coumba Toure from Senegal and Kiritapu Allan from Aotearoa/New Zealand. We will have the opportunity to hear about the amazing and much needed work going on in their communities as well as their stories about the Jam community.

We will also be joined by Tiffany Brown, YES!’s Program Manager and Ocean Robbins, YES!’s Founder/Director, who recently received the Freedom’s Flame Award (along with Michele Robbins) and the National Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service. The evening will be filled with heartwarming stories from the work of YES! and our global partners about the recently completed World Jam and Global Collaborative Gatherings in Peru, as well as the Leveraging Privilege for Social Change Jam in West Virginia.

We hold this evening as an opportunity to appreciate your dedicated and continued support to visionary young leaders who are building a better world. There is no cost to attend. With much gratitude, we look forward to gathering supporters to share with you some of the moving working that your support is helping to make possible.

There is limited space, so please send your RSVP to Jenny Uribe at jenny@yesworld.org as soon as you are able, so we can reserve a spot for you and any one you might like to bring. Confirmation and directions will be sent thereafter to all registered guests.

With much love and appreciation,

YES! Staff

Ocean Robbins, Tiffany Brown, Romy Narayan, Lorin Troderman, Nga Trinh-Halperin, Jenny Uribe and Julie Pennington

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YES! is a non-profit organization that connects, inspires and empowers young changemakers to join forces for a thriving, just and sustainable way of life for all. Since 1990 YES! has spoken in person to more than 650,000 students in school assemblies, led hundreds of day-long workshops, and held more than 100 week-long gatherings for visionary young leaders from 65+ nations. YES!’s Jams support some of the planet’s most potent and dedicated young social change leaders. Through Global Jams, the Leveraging Privilege for Social Change program, and supporting aligned movements, YES! empowers the next generation to claim its voice and transform our world. More info on YES! is available at http://www.yesworld.org

YES! 420 Bronco Road, Soquel, CA 95073 (831) 465-1082 • info@yesworld.org

Coumba Toure is an educator seeking alternatives in education, an activist struggling for radical social change and working for just and sustainable relations worldwide, and an artist who enjoys writing fiction and sharing music. Coumba works for social justice through popular education and has facilitated hundreds of educational workshops on gender, race and economic justice, HIV Aids and advocacy. She has worked with very diverse groups of people and organizations including the Institute for Popular Education in Kati, Mali, African Consultants International in Dakar, Senegal, and 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement in Selma, Alabama. She is currently writing and publishing books and educational materials for children and building a learning community that supports children in creating their own material.

Kiritapu Allan is one of those people that wakes up on any given day in completely different places, interacting with many kinds of faces and traversing through all types of spaces. Peace and justice lie at the core of all that it is that she does. In saying that she admits that it is another matter to fully embody these concepts at the personal level and strives to attain the balance of peace and justice within her own self, family, community and country. Kiritapu is indigenous to Aotearoa, specifically she comes from the peoples of Ngati Ranginui, Ngai Te Rangi, Tuwharetoa and Te Arawa, which are tribes from the middle of the North Island. Her work revolves around educating and inspiring all peoples about learning from our histories so that we can create a sustainable, just and hopeful future.

Tiffany Brown is the Program Manager at YES!. She has worked with local as well as national anti-racist groups such as the civil rights organization, the NAACP (Southeast Regional office's Prison Project). Tiffany is passionate about bringing people together over food, community, relationships and communication. She has participated and facilitated several conferences with Be Present, which focuses on transformative communication across difference. And she is serving on the Board of Common Fire, working towards the vision of a diverse intentional community that promotes living in alignment with our values. She is a co-founder of the Santa-Cruz based Community Alliances Initiative (CAI), which is a support network for a diverse group of intergenerational changemakers. She is thrilled that her life is currently a manifestation of what she holds dear. Tiffany also loves hosting and attending dinner parties, and dancing.

Ocean Robbins organized a peace rally at his elementary school at age 8, founded Ocean’s Natural Bakery at age 10 (serving as baker, salesman and accountant for a home business that grew to have several hundred regular customers), and by the age of 14 he was facilitating international youth summits in Moscow and Washington, DC. At 16, he founded YES!. He is co-author of Choices for Our Future, has spoken in person to more than 200,000 people with a message of hope and a call to action. Ocean has served on the board of directors for Friends of the Earth, Creating Our Future, The Turning Tide Coalition, The Omni Center, and EarthSave International, and has been chosen by Audubon, Time Magazine, and Utne Reader as among the heroes of the new Millennium. He was also awarded the Freedom’s Flame Award and was a National recipient of the Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service in 2008.