Friends of Marcy Houses Hosts Webinar for NYCHA Residents.

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On Friday, April 24th, Friends of Marcy Houses worked with State Senator Julia Salazar to host a webinar providing information to NYCHA residents about resources available during the COVID epidemic. The event featured important speakers including New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, City Council member Carlina Rivera, Congress member Nydia Velazquez’ Brooklyn District Director Evelyn Cruz, NYCHA’s Vice President of Intergovernmental Relations Brian Honan, and Legal Services NY Senior Attorney Nicole Salk.  The full webinar was recorded and can be viewed here.  We also recommend you read through this resource sheet we produced.  It contains extensive information on resources and services available to NYCHA residents.  The sheet is also available in Spanish.

Friends of Marcy Houses
148 Columbia Heights, Garden Apt.
Brooklyn, NY 11201

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Dominique Bravo

Dominique Bravo was born in Los Angeles to parents from Peru. Dominique is an attorney and advocate for social and racial justice with three decades of counseling and representing community and arts organizations.  

 

Dominique currently serves as the Associate Executive Director of the Center on Race, Law and Justice at Fordham Law School.  Dominique previously served as General Counsel of the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank and college campus network that seeks to carry forward the legacy and values of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.  She founded and directed Pathways to Apprenticeship, a non-profit workforce development agency that assists low-income people — and in particular, the formerly incarcerated — to access apprenticeship opportunities in the union construction industry. She previously served as General Counsel to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.  

 

In addition to her work with Marcy Houses, Dominique also currently serves as pro bono counsel for children seeking asylum with the Safe Passage Project, a non-profit legal clinic.  Dominique also serves as President of the board of American Oversight, a nonpartisan, nonprofit ethics watchdog law firm in Washington D.C., that focuses on litigation involving the Freedom of Information Act. She is also a member of the board of St Ann’s Warehouse, a performing arts institution in Brooklyn, New York.  Dominique is also President and General Counsel of Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance, a dance and drumming studio and performance space she co-founded in Brooklyn.  

 

Dominique previously served on a number of other boards of directors for other social service and arts organizations throughout New York City and was a member of Community Board 6 in Brooklyn.  She received her J.D. from Northeastern School of Law and her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.  Dominique has lived in Brooklyn for the past thirty years, and she and her husband, Eric Sloan, have raised three children in Brooklyn.