HTBAF – “Luck” or “Beginner’s Luck?”
Friday, March 26th
on ZOOM, (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83167489941), Meeting ID: 831 6748 9941
“Luck” or “Beginner’s Luck?” That is the question. Storytellers will share a series of improbable events that vary by the situation that some may call “luck”.
How to Build a Fire is a Storytelling series, now presented on a blended format: some storytellers and the hosts will be at Open Source Gallery, while the audience is invited to listen and interact on ZOOM. Our hosts are Jackie Reason and Lily White.
Marcus Scurry serves as the Program Director for CAMBA. He has twenty plus years of nonprofit experience and began his nonprofit career in 1999. He currently serves as the Program Director for CAMBA, Inc. and oversees their ENY Cornerstone youth development program that serves children and families in the ENY section of Brooklyn. He’s the founder of “Real Men Mentor” a grassroots mentoring program that serves middle school males and Young Fearless and Black, a lifestyle brand that speaks to the essence of black culture, The Marcus and Friends Quarantine and Chill podcast and “Be the Change” a community service initiative that addresses community disparities and develops leadership, civic engagement and team-building skills for young people.
He is a sought after motivational speaker and visionary who has been featured in Ebony Magazine, The Index Journal, WCRS Radio, the Anne Eller show and the American Express Leadership Academy for Nonprofit Leaders. He’s a 2005 Honors College graduate of Johnson C. Smith University; graduating with a BS in Business Administration and Finance, a graduate of Eastern University, St. Davids, PA and holds a certificate in Nonprofit Management from Baruch College. He’s been recognized by the Greenwood County Chamber of Commerce as a “40 under 40” star, Young Alumni Leadership Circle (Johnson C. Smith University)and currently serves as the President of the JCSU New York Alumni chapter and an Executive board member of the JCSU National Alumni Association.
Marcus is committed to service, mentoring youth and transforming communities.
Nicola Waldron is a poet and essayist. Born in the U.K., she studied at Cambridge University before moving to America in 1996 and ultimately attending the Bennington Writing Seminars, where she met Lily White in 2011. The rest, as they say, is history! She currently lives in Columbia, SC, where she works as a writing and yoga instructor. She and her partner of 35 years have a teenage son and daughter. All of them have been in the same house now 24/7 for exactly a year.
Frances Greathead is an organizer, writer and political giving consultant living in Ditmas Park. She is a graduate of Bennington Writing Seminars, and her fiction has been published in The Massachusetts Review.
Katy Lyle was born on New York’s East River in the summer of 1959. She feels fortunate to have grown up around people who wrote and told stories. She has been told all of her life that she ought to write more such stories down. Maybe she will.
