Take out your Elvis costumes! The Mid-South is going to MEMPHIS for the 2010 Regional Conference!
Bridges, an association founded in 1922 with the mission of building a community of leaders to advance racial, economic, educational and environmental justice, will host the Mid-South's first urban experience for a regional conference.
Please join us March 25-28 for quality professional development workshops, networking, and other resources for teachers, counselors, trainers, group facilitators, therapists, challenge course practitioners, environmental educators... anyone who facilitates development in others and desires to use experiential education as a tool for advancing social justice in our world.
2010 Mid-South Regional Conference Keynote Speaker: Spirit Trickey-Rowan
Trickey-Rowan's mother is Minnijean Brown-Trickey - one of the nine African-American teenagers who attended the all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Called the Little Rock Nine, they helped shape the civil rights movement. Born and raised in Canada, Trickey-Rowan moved to Little Rock when she was 22 so that she could build a bridge to her mother’s past, and began working as an interpretive park ranger for the Central High School National Historic Site. In 2002, she wrote a play in college retelling the story of the Little Rock Nine from the perspective of her mother as a 15-year-old girl.
