Rosa Parks Memorial Project Community Forum
Community Forum to Preview Plans for Rosa Parks Memorial Project to be Built at Mesa College
Community Forum: 6:00-8:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 15,
Joe and Vi Jacobs Center, Community Room, Market Creek Plaza, 404 Euclid Ave., San Diego, near the corner of Market Street and Euclid.
The public is invited to a community forum and preview of plans a memorial honoring civil rights activist Rosa Parks being built at San Diego Mesa College in Kearny Mesa. The memorial will include an MTS transit stop and surrounds at the new east gateway entrance to Mesa College. The forum will be held Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Joe & Vi Jacobs Community Center, Market Creek Plaza, 404 Euclid Avenue.
Speakers at the forum will include
Constance M. Carroll, Chancellor, San Diego Community College District;
Dr. Rita M. Cepeda, President, Mesa College;
Elizabeth Hamilton, Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development.
A presentation will be made by the designers of the memorial project by public artists Nina Karavasiles and Mario Lara, and diversity expert Dr. Gerda Govine-Ituarte, Ed.D. Lei-Chala Wilson, President San Diego NAACP and a representative of the West Coast Black Publishers Association will provide comments.