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June 4, 2012
Missouri History Museum

November 2012

Honorees were Hon. Jimmie Edwards, Robert Newmark, Emily Pitts, Dr. William Danforth, & Frankie Freeman

June 4, 2012
Missouri History Museum

BROTHERHOOD SISTERHOOD
AWARDS CELEBRATION

67TH ANNUAL

The National Conference for Community & Justice of Metropolitan St. Louis celebrated inclusion, diversity and leadership for social change across the region by honoring ve individuals who embody these principles in their corner of St. Louis.
NCCJSTL hosted its 67th Annual Brotherhood Sisterhood Awards Dinner at the Missouri History Museum on June 4th, 2012. More than 200 guests enjoyed a wonderful evening full of great food, music, and distinguished company. Ed Reggi shepherded guests through the night as the charismatic emcee. The 2012 awardees, pictured on this page, were introduced by a fellow social justice leader in the community. All had deeply moving stories, which exemplify the NCCJSTL mission of

assignment in History class: identify an individual she believed would have a profound impact on the future of the country. She selected none other than Frankie Muse Freeman. It is stories like these, of great social justice leaders, that help keep NCCJSTLs mission moving forward. In addition to the outstanding speeches by The awards celebration was held June 4, the honorees, an Anytown & ALLY 2012 at the Missouri History Museum graduate took center stage to speak about her learning journey, as did an Inclusion Institute for Healthcare making St. Louis a better place for all of graduate. us, not just some of us. NCCJSTL is proud to host this For example, Valerie Bell, an awardee herself in 2011, introduced Mrs. dinner and shine a light on individuals whose efforts help make the St. Louis Frankie M. Freeman. During this community a better place to live. We introduction she took the crowd on a hope you will join us for the 68th annual journey back to 1969, where as the only event next year! African American girl in her Catholic
AWARDS CELEBRATION

BROTHERHOOD SISTERHOOD High School she was given an important

67TH ANNUAL

NCCJSTL November 2012

Board Corner...
Join us in welcoming our newest members to the Board of Directors
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private offerings of securities, stockfor-stock acquisitions, and acquisitions of companies. In 2008, she addressed a nationwide audience of the Association of Corporate Counsel on laws related to contingent workers. She is writing an article for the ACC on the ramifications of using social media in hiring and firing decisions. She has written articles for other publications on the Family and Medical Leave Act and on preventing employee fraud. Before working at Monsanto, she was an associate at Rosenbloom, Goldenhersh, Silverstein and Zafft. Alice chairs the Policy Committee of the St. Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired's Board of Directors (which she chaired in 2009). She is a member of the Development Committee for Opera in the Ozarks Board. She is receiving a Distinguished Alumni award from Ladue Horton Watkins High School at their next reunion. Alice is honored and delighted to be joining the Board for the St. Louis chapter of the National Conference for Community and Justice. Ms. Hosler has experience representing public companies, closely held businesses, venture capital firms, investment partnerships, portfolio companies of venture capital and buyout firms, and financial institutions. She has with companies in a Stephanie Hosler experience different industries, number of Alice Conway is a partner at Bryan including consumer goods, is Assistant General Cave LLP, who telecommunications, banking, life Counsel, Commercial concentrates her sciences, and private equity. and Employment Law, practice in the areas of Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Hosler at Monsanto. In that business and was a management associate with capacity, she negotiates transactional LEK Alcar, an international contracts, provides counseling. Her consulting firm which focuses in guidance on handling practice includes mergers and acquisitions. She was employment law and mergers and also an associate with the law firm of diversity issues and on acquisitions, general Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, Il the rapidly expanding commercial field of privacy law. counseling, joint ventures and strategic alliances,

Our Mission
Since 1930, the National Conference for Community and Justice of Metropolitan St. Louis has been advancing diversity education and social justice. NCCJSTL delivers customizable diversity programs catered to the corporate, healthcare and education sectors. NCCJSTLs programs produce personal, organizational, and community-wide change. We envision a St. Louis community that is inclusive of all, not just some.

Board of Directors
Nancy Parker Tice Chair Sharon Harvey Davis Vice Chair Joe Sheehan Treasurer Sujata S. Buck Secretary William Gilbert Imm. Past Chair Michael Litwack At Large Valerie D. Bell Committee Chair Stephanie Hosler Committee Chair Christine A. Chadwick, Shane Cohn, Alice Conway, Sherry Delo, Flint W. Fowler, Joseph Jordan, Kenneth S. Kranzberg, J. David Levy, Robert L. Newmark, Harvey G. Schneider, Patricia Smith Thurman

Our Programs
Anytown Youth Leadership Institute & ALLY Inclusion Institutes Building Inclusive Communities Workshops Facilitrainer Certication Program
NCCJSTL November 2012

Contact Information
Adult Programming
David Martineau at (314) 432-2525 X 112 or david@nccjstl.org

Youth Programming
Emily Jones at (314) 432-2525 X 114 or emily@nccjstl.org

Address
8420 Delmar Blvd., Suite 500 St. Louis, MO 63124