Report To The Community 2021

saluting
all our women
Women@NJPAC programming
celebrated all the ways women
build communities
Throughout the season,
Women@NJPAC not only
supported the Arts Center’s
education and community
engagement missions — as it
has since before NJPAC opened
its doors — but also continued
to expand its programming
to offer its members and
women in all fields insights
and new ways to connect.
“I call our approach the
three C’s,” says Faith Taylor,
President of Women@NJPAC.
“We’re having an impact on
our community, we’re making
connections between women
and we’re ensuring continuity,
that the organization builds
on the legacy of its first three
decades and the work that
we’re doing now will last.”
Many of the Women@NJPAC
programs continued digitally
in 2021, but by year’s end,
the group began to return
for in-person celebrations.
In March, the third annual
Women@NJPAC Gathering
of Givers, a celebration of the
impact of women in philanthropy,
was held, this time as a virtual
event devoted to examining
the role women will play in
reinventing the post-COVID-19
world — from workplaces
to nonprofits to the arts.
Speakers included Lara Abrash,
Chairman and CEO of Deloitte
& Touche, and Joanne Lin, a
principal at Newark Venture
Partners. The gathering also
brought together leaders from
the worlds of philanthropy,
art and activism, like fayemi
shakur, Arts and Cultural Affairs
Director in the City of Newark,
and Salamishah Tillet, Founding
Director of the New Arts Justice
Initiative at Express Newark,
who discussed how art is
transforming the public square.
“When the pandemic hit, we
saw very quickly the drastic
shifts in the workplace,” said
Abrash at the event, while
noting that American women
lost hundreds of thousands
of jobs during the crisis (while
men, overall, gained jobs).
“We need to use what we’ve
learned from the pandemic to
help inform our decisions, and
it’s imperative that we keep a
gender lens on the decisions we
are making so these impacts
are not carried forward. As
a society, we don’t want our
advances in technology, and
the possibilities of new ways
to conduct work, to have a
negative impact on the ground
we’ve made up over so many
years around gender equity.”
“We’re having an impact on our
community, making connections between
women and ensuring continuity –
that the organization builds on the
legacy of its first three decades...”
– Faith Taylor
Leading Ladies: Reframing
Newark Through Art panelists,
left to right: Yeimy Gamez
Castillo, Rebecca Jampol, Regina
Barboza, Laura Bonas-Palmer
and moderator Aisha Glover.
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