Saturday, October 9th
10am-2pm
Mill River Park
Brownstein | Selkowitz Carousel Pavilion
Parking Info: https://millriverpark.org/the-park/plan-your-visit
LiveGirl is partnering up with Mill River Park Collaborative and USOW to host the ultimate women’s leadership rally in celebration of 2021’s International Day of the Girl.
The event will feature live music, networking, female-owned business booths, a community art mural and so much more!
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ABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUESTS
MARI COPENY
Mari Copeny is most well known as “Little Miss Flint” - she first gained national attention in 2016, when at the age of 8, the LA Times published a letter she wrote to President Obama challenging him to visit Flint, Michigan. The letter sparked an urgent dialogue around the clean water crisis and environmental racism that was impossible to ignore, ultimately leading to meetings with Presidents Obama and Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and spotlights by TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, NBC News, and VICE.
LYNNETTE JOHNSON
Lynnette’s first love is poetry. She has made a name for herself as an actor, an event host, a workshop facilitator, a podcaster and a spoken word artist. Lynnette has had the opportunity to travel across the country performing her own pieces. Her gentle style and comedic delivery has allowed even non-fans of poetry to be drawn in by her words. Lynnette visits the subjects of love, injustice, motherhood and friendships in her writing. She has competed in poetry slams, winning a place on the 2014 Connecticut slam Team, Verbal Slap. She competed in the Woman of the World Poetry Slam in Brooklyn, in March of 2016. She visits universities and elementary schools leading workshops on poetry, and journal writing, titled, The Power of Words. Ms. Johnson writes and recites poems for special occasions; weddings, funerals, birthday celebrations, retirements and any other social gathering. She published her first collection of poetry titled I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You in February 2014. Collections 2 and 3, Only Love can Do That and Purple were released in the fall and winter of 2015. Her fourth collection, Supreme was released April 2017 as a book and a one woman show.
BRENNYN LARK
She has appeared in a range of productions, including performing as Eponine in Broadway's revival of Les Miz, Deena Jones in the West End’s Dreamgirls, and season 3 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Alongside performing, Brennyn is passionate about extending her insight and abilities to that of transforming the next generation of young artists and performers.
RENEE REYES
Renee Reyes uses her platform as a way to spread awareness about alopecia and to change today’s beauty standards for the better. Reyes was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but she currently lives in Stamford, Connecticut. Inspired by her mother’s past as a beauty pageant contestant, Reyes entered Miss Teen Connecticut 2015, where she was a semi-finalist. Then, in 2018, she started to notice the first signs of her alopecia. She hopes to win Miss USA and Miss Universe, which would give her an even grander platform to spread alopecia awareness. Reyes is looking to establish her own non-profit volunteer organization for alopecia awareness.
SEN. PAT MILLER
Senator Patricia Billie Miller, a Stamford native, was elected to the state senate for the 27th district in a special election in 2021. She had previously served in the General Assembly from 2008 to 2021 representing Stamford's 145th Assembly District. Through her tenure in the legislature, Sen. Miller has been a strong advocate for education reforms that help address and improve Connecticut’s education opportunity gap. She has learned and seen firsthand the disproportion of students’ achievements and the role that literacy plays in their success or failure. She believes giving teachers the right tools to help them address disparities is a step in the right direction.
Learn more about 2021 International Day of the Girl
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