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  • Angela Lobo (Tenant Leadership) Lakefront Supportive Housing

ABOUT

  • MIRIAM WOMEN IN ACTION
    Miriam Women in Action is the Leadership Guild of the Miriam Apartments. In pursuit of buiding internal community, Miriam leaders designed a project which would tell the story of the journey from homelessness to home, provide a meeting place where women could find common ground, and begin to build the relationships necessary to move forward together on common issues.
  • THE TENANT LEADERSHIP PROJECT
    The Tenant Leadership Project, using community organizing principles, brings Lakefront tenants together to create a strong, unified voice to represent issues of formerly homeless people. The Tenant Leadership Project works to reintegrate tenants of Lakefront’s supportive housing back into civic and community life by teaching leadership skills and focusing directly on issues that affect their lives. In learning leadership skills, tenants make important steps in developing the confidence to re-enter community life and achieve other life goals.

Acknowledgements

  • TENANT LEADERS
    Anita Alexander, Rosa Barton, Patricia Blackwood, Rosalind Collins, Sharon Davis, Josey Dorsey, Corinne Eiswert, Deborah Gaddo, Vera Johnson, Debra Little, Sherrie Rice, Geraldine Watson
  • STAFF LEADERS
    Christine Makarewicz, Angie Lobo, Ruth Groff, Anna Gonzalez Jenny Koll, Mary Harth
  • BLOG CONTRIBUTORS
    Maria Onesto, Celeste Wroblewski, Liz Cox, Marty Fitzgerald, Lisa Kuklinski, Angie Lobo

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January 10, 2005

Rosa's Thoughts

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I painted the sun because I wanted to be the center of attention and to stand out and make a difference.  The sun symbolizes those aspects for me.  It is a positive focus point of every person’s life.  The sun reaches new heights and goes beyond the limitations of what people expect from each individual.  It just brightens up the room and brings about positive energy and I wanted to be the one to paint that.  After I got through with the sun I felt I was done.

I was persuaded to paint the birds because the mural needed more signs of freedom and hope.  At first I didn’t like painting the birds, but after my second one I started to like it.  The birds symbolize freedom, free spirit, and no limits.

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