SOMA Living October 2025

On November 12 at 7:30 p.m., the Community Coalition on Race’s Schools Committee hosts School Integration in SOMA, a panel at Columbia High School on the history and educational context for SOMSD’s Intentional Integration Initiative (III), now in its fifth year. The event welcomes the entire community and especially young families with preschool and elementary students and newcomers to SOMA. NOVEMBER EVENTS HIGHLIGHTING SCHOOL AND RESIDENTIAL INTEGRATION COALITION ON RACE

Dr. Amy Stuart Wells, dean of the Bank Street Graduate School of Education and professor emerita at Teachers College, Columbia University, will deliver the keynote on the academic, social, and

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other benefits of integrated schools for all students. Retired assembly member and former SOMSD board president Mila Jasey is another speaker. The presentation traces our community’s school-integration efforts. On November 13 at 7 p.m., the Residential Committee presents SOMA Neighbors Connect in the Vic DeLuca Room of the Maplewood Library. Updates highlight the spaces and places where neighbors connect, from the greenway and bike lanes to the bike bus, and new data on neighborhood integration levels. Together, we explore how these local initiatives shape daily life and strengthen community bonds. Both events are free. Please register in advance at communitycoalitiononrace.org.

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Nancy Gagnier, Executive Director of the South Orange/ Maplewood Community Coalition on Race, develops pro-integrative strategies to support racial equity and inclusion.

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