On 07/23/2020 Stephanie Fortunato the director of the Arts Culture and Tourism department of Providence invited me to join a newly created Advisory Board to the ACT department on Commemorative works.

This Advisory Board is separate from the Special Committee that is going to be compromised of 7 experts and is going to advise the Board of Parks Commissioners on Commemorative Works. 

This Advisory Board will be made up of some two dozen leaders of humanities, cultural heritage, and community organizations who can provide strategic advice about best practices and emerging research, offer direction and advice to ACT, and who will help make connections with their networks, partners, and community groups. 

There is also an overlap in membership, at least one member, Loren Spears the director of the tomahawk museum and a Narragansett tribal council member is on both the Special Committee and the Advisory Board to the act department.

My focus in my role with the ACT department will be to make information clear and accessible to the general public when it comes to their involvement in Commemorative works. I truly believe community involvement and pressure is the greatest way to achieve change. 

The Advisory Board had our first meeting via zoom on 07/26/2020 where we introduced ourselves and discussed the purpose of the Advisory Board, as well as offered some suggestions, such as creating a database of Commemorative Works that is accessible to the public, and discussing the accessibility and clarity of the ACT website when it comes to Commemorative works and the ability of citizens to engage and provide feedback. 

My activism work is still my top priority, and I was pleased to see a very diverse mixture of activists and experts coming to the conversation. I'm looking forward to how this increased connection between the ACT department and local activists manifests itself in real change for the community.