WELCOME TO ACTS!
The Alliance of Communities Transforming Syracuse (ACTS) is a grassroots, interfaith network advocating for social justice. We are voices striving for a more just and fair community that improves the quality of life for all.
ACTS hires Melody Holmes as our Transitional Community Organizer
Melody E. Holmes is a native Syracusan and a well known community advocate. Her training, advocacy and teaching has centered on community dialogues, political concerns, community change that can help define and educate ourselves and our neighbors all centered around the city and specifically, the SouthSide. She currently is affiliated with the Brady Faith Center, Syracuse City School District and Interfaith Works.
ACTS ELECTS NEW BOARD MEMBERS
at its March 28, 2023
Membership Council Meeting
On March 28, 2023 ACTS held its Membership Council Meeting at which it
elected a new board members and thanked board members
whose terms had ended.
Thank you to outgoing Board Members
Darris Williams
Rev. Kathy Hodge Davis
Dale Avers
Lennie Turner
Rabbi David Kuhn
Peter Sarver
Lawrence Brooks
New Board members:
Jikyo Bonnie Shoultz - Zen Center
Mark Cass - Executive Director of the North Side Learning Center of Syracuse
Bishop H Bernard Alex - Senior Pastor/Teacher at Victory Temple Fellowship Church
Shu Kir Mohammed - ACTS Youth Council
Continuing their service on the ACTS board are:
Dr. Rev. Eric Jackson - Plymouth Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
Dennis Brady - Immaculate Conception Church, Fayetteville
Rev. Jennifer Hamlin-Navias - First Unitarian-Universalist Society
Dr. Ednita Wright - Zen Center
Rev. Dr. Bruce Burns - Senior Pastor Hopps Memorial CME
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Dr. Rev. Eric Jackson, President ACTS Syracuse