Community Outreach With Racquel Williams

Date: 7-4-20

Host: Racquel Williams

Guests: Perth Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz and Barry Rosengarten, Chairman of the Business Improvement District.

Topic: New Jersey is slowly but surely getting back to business as COVID-19 cases decline. Perth Amboy has created a "Back to Business” program to aid the community’s small companies as they restart their operations. 

Air Date: 6/21/2020

Host: Racquel Williams

Guest:  U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Brendan Toolan.

Toopic:  The Army is launching its first all-Army virtual hiring campaign June 30 – July 2 and their goal is to hire 10,000 new Soldiers Nationwide.  Lieutenant Toolan explains how this will play out Nationwide and here in New Jersey.

Air Date: 6/7/2020

Host:  Racquel Williams

Guest:  Greg Parris-President of 100 Black Men of NJ

Topic:  Civil unrest and protests for an end to police brutality 

Air Date:  5-17-20

Host: Racquel Williams

Guest: Bill Neary -Executive Director of Keep Middlesex Moving

Topic:  Covid-19 is showing us what the new normal can look like in the near future as telecommuting becomes a viable option for both employer and employee.  

Air Date: 5/2/20

Host: Racquel Williams

Guest:  Adele LaTourette is director of Hunger Free New Jersey
Nancy Parello- Communications Director Hunger Free NJ   

Topic:
 The Center For Food Action's Hunger Free New Jersey is dedicated to changing policy and practice to ensure that every New Jersey resident has healthy food to eat.  Hunger Free New Jersey just released a report called:  Missed Dollars, Bare Cupboards: Improving SNAP Participation in New Jersey.  

Date: 4-26-20

Host: Racquel Williams

Guests: Christopher Manente- Executive Director of the  Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services

James Maraventano-Director of the SCALE Program at the Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services.

Topic: The COVID -19 pandemic has completely changed our lives.  It's a challenge to work through it all.  There are members of our community that need even more assistance in adjusting to this "New Normal." The Autism Community.

Air Date: 3/15/2020

Host: Racquel Williams

Guest: Dr. Nihdi Kumar, Cardiologist and Medical Director of Women's Health at St. Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick.  

Topic: February was heart month, but that doesn't mean the conversation has to end.  In fact there's an interesting area of cardiology that many people may not be familiar with; Cardio-Oncology.

Air Date:  3/08/2020

Host: Racquel Williams

Guest: Denise Peoples with the NJ Sharing Network.  

Topic:  The NJ Sharing Network is a nonprofit, federally-designated organ pro-cure-ment organization responsible for the recovery of organs and tissue in the state.
Denise heads up the organization's multi-cultural effort, and also has quite the story herself as she was the recipient of a life saving organ donation. 

Date:  3-1-20

Guest: Cancer Support Community Central New Jersey-  A group of experts based in Bedminster, which helps to provide support services to address the emotional and social impact of cancer.   In Central Jersey they have been providing support in the community for more than a decade.

CEO - Amy Sutton discusses

Host:  Racquel Williams

Air Date: 2-9-2020

Guest: John Marron, Vice Chair of the Highland Park Arts Commission

Cassandra Oliveras- Moreno, Co-Founder of Windows of Understanding, Collaborator and Administrator of the Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts

Sarah Ferreira, Curator for Satellite Exhibition at the American Hungarian Foundation, Artistic Coordinator, New Brunswick Cultural Center.
 
Tracey O'Reggio Clark, co-Founder of Windows of Understanding, Interim Executive Director, New Brunswick Cultural Center, Inc. 

Topic: Windows of Understanding Public Arts Project.  It's on display now Through February 29th at Various Venues in New Brunswick and Highland Park. It's being presented by the Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts, The New Brunswick Cultural Center and the Highland Park Arts Commission.