Program MLK Observance 2022

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by  Town of Arlington Massachusetts

Program
Monday, January 17, 2022

Musical Paul White
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Welcome Jillian Harvey, Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Division,
Health & Human Services; MLK Committee Member

Invocation Pastor Ross Goodman, St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church

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Poem Steven Ratiner, Arlington Poet Laureate, accompanied by Paul
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Master of Jillian Harvey, MLK Committee Member
Ceremonies

Free Will Offering Crystal Haynes, Journalist, MLK Committee Member

Musical Paul White and the CFB Ensemble (Caribbean Foundation
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Introduction Mikel Satcher, MLK Committee Member
to Keynote

Keynote Dr. Lynn Perry Wooten, President of Simmons
Presentation University

Master of Jillian Harvey, MLK Committee Member
Ceremonies

Benediction Rev. Erica Richmond, First Parish Unitarian Universalist

Closing Remarks Ian Jackson, Chair of MLK Committee

Closing Music Mildred Walker and Paul White
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Performances

Paul White
Director of Music Ministry
Peoples Baptist Church of Boston

Paul White has performed throughout the United
States and internationally as a recitalist, with his jazz
trio Paul White & Company, and with a host of gifted
artists including the Rev. James Cleveland, Bill
Gaither, Billy Preston, and Nina Simone. He has
opened for major artists including the renowned a cappella group Take Six.

Steven Ratiner
Current Poet Laureate
Arlington, Massachusetts

Steven is the author of three poetry chapbooks and has
published work in numerous journals in America and
abroad, including Parnassus, Agni, Blackbird, Hanging
Loose, Poet Lore, Salamander, QRLS (Singapore)
and Poetry Australia. Giving Their Word, a collection of
poetry interviews, was re-issued in a paperback edition from University of
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vital contemporary voices, such as Seamus Heaney, Charles Simic, Rita
Dove, Bei Dao, and the last full-length interview with Bill Stafford before he
died.
Keynote: Dr. Lynn Perry Wooten,
President of Simmons University

On July, 1, 2020 Dr. Wooten
became the 9th president of
Simmons University and the first
African American to lead the
university.

Specializing in crisis leadership,
diversity and inclusion, and
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organizational behavior that
reveals and nurtures the highest
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Wooten is an innovative leader
and prolific author and presenter
whose research has informed her work in the classroom and as an
administrator. She first joined a university faculty in 1994 and has served in
administrative roles since 2008. Dr. Wooten came to Simmons from Cornell
University, where she was the David J. Nolan Dean and Professor of
Management and Organizations at the Dyson School of Applied Economics
and Management.

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from an NIH-funded investigation of how leadership can positively alleviate
health disparities to leading in a crisis and managing workforce diversity. She
is the author of two books, Positive Organizing in a Global Society:
Understanding and Engaging Differences for Capacity Building and
Inclusion (2016) and Leading Under Pressure: From Surviving to Thriving
Before, During, and After a Crisis (2010). Sharing her work at nearly 60
symposia and conferences, she also is the author of nearly 30 journal articles
and more than 15 book chapters, as well as managerial monographs and
numerous teaching cases.

Dr. Wooten grew up in Philadelphia, where she attended an all-girls high
school. She earned a BS in accounting in 1988 from North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State University, a Historically Black College, where
she graduated as valedictorian; an MBA from the Duke University Fuqua
School of Business in 1990; and a PhD in business administration from the
University of Michigan Ross School of Business in 1995. She received a
Certificate in Advanced Educational Leadership from the Harvard University
Graduate School of Education in 2018.

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