NYAGV Members Meeting Discusses Legislation, Education Initiatives
Thanks to NYAGV members who attended Tuesday’s NYAGV Members Meeting in Manhattan. Attendees heard from: Rebecca Fischer, NYAGV Executive Director, who gave an update on gun-violence-prevention legislation, and urged members to take action on pending legislation. (See below.) Shaina Harrison, Program Director of the NYAGV Education Fund’s ReACTION Youth Program, who discussed working with high school students in high-risk areas... Read More
Free public forum February 6: Community Solutions to Gun Violence
Join NYAGV and other members of the New York Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence for a free public forum, Community Solutions to a Public Health Crisis: Addressing the Cycle of Gun Violence. The event will be held on Tuesday, February 6 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. At this forum, you’ll find out... Read More
NYAGV’s Harrison to Speak at Albany Conference February 18
Shaina Harrison, NYAGV Program Director, will be speaking on the “Innovative Strategies to Address Gun Violence in Communities of Color” panel at this weekend’s Annual Legislative Conference of the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators in Albany. The panel is scheduled for Saturday, February 18 at 9:15 at the New York... Read More
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Thanks to our supporters for making the NYAGV Annual Benefit & Silent Auction a success! Read More
NYAGV Discusses Youth Education Program on WABC’s “Here and Now”
Shaina Harrison, NYAGV Program Director, and Leah Gunn Barrett, NYAGV’s Executive Director, were interviewed on WABC’s “Here and Now” on November 8. The segment, hosted by Sandra Bookman, focused on NYAGV’s youth education program and the students’ perceptions of guns and gun violence. Watch and share the video! Read More
NYAGV in the News: The New Yorker Profiles NYAGV Education Director
The New Yorker recently profiled Shaina Harrison, Program Director of the reACTION youth program–the NYAGV Education Fund’s after-school class that teaches teens about gun violence and its prevention. The New Yorker article, “Red Hook Postcard: Community Guns,” appears on pages 22-23 in The Read More
