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“Sé el adulto que necesitabas cuando eras niño.” (Be the adult you needed when you were a kid). • Her Voice Carries | Battle Creek, Michigan Edition featuring Eridania Nieves (From Haverhill, MA). • Thank you to our sponsor and partner in this @colorthecreek. Justin and his amazing crew of volunteers care deeply about their community and it was an amazing project to be part of. • • • #hervoicecarries #eridanianieves #colorthecreek #sarahcrutherford #battlecreekmi #haverhillma

✨Introducing our second voice to be featured on the national tour, Eridania Nieves from Haverhill, MA.✨This past April artist Sarah C. Rutherford had the honor of photographing, interviewing and recording eight local women’s stories. Stay tuned for more as we share over the coming weeks and a huge thank you to @haileymoschella from @switchboard_haverhill for coordinating these conversations. Another heartfelt thank you to @colorthecreek who we partnered with to bring her mural to Battle Creek, Michigan. Eridania Nieves arrived in the United States at the age of 9 months old from the Dominican Republic. The oldest of five children, she was raised by a single mother in The Bronx of New York City. When she was a teenager she moved to Haverhill, MA where she has since dedicated her life to serving youth. In her twenty-six years as supervisor of the Student Support Program at Haverhill High School, Eridania works with students facing difficult academic and personal adversity, challenging them to trade their fear and violence for hope and peace. Her ability to navigate institutional inequities in order to get students in Haverhill “on the right track” has changed the lives of many. Additionally, she has piloted and volunteered for a number of groups over the years including a Young Woman’s Support Group, A Young Latina’s Support Group, a teen pregnancy prevention group, “Girls Empowered Means Success Program” at the YWCA. She also serves as an advisor for V.I.P. Haverhill, a youth led group whose mission is violence intervention and prevention. Eridania’s voice carries through her singing, both personally and professionally where she uses it as a tool to help lift her students spirits or bring light to a difficult situation. Furthermore, her mission has made it into her own home where she and her husband have been foster parents to a total of twenty-seven children. Her empathy, dedication, and unwavering optimism when working with young people has inspired a great many people in the Haverhill community. • • • #hervoicecarries #haverhillma #battlecreekmi #eridanianieves

Portrait of @daniellepondermusic at Martin Luther King Park. Detail from a larger collaboration titled “This is Triumphant music” with @bwilliamsart and @mrprvrt (final pics to come) in partnership with @walltherapyny, @rocpaintdivision and @cityofrochesterny. It was an honor to paint local musician and activist Danielle Ponder (referenced from a beautiful photo by @livesstyled ). I am in awe of the power she holds and the inspiration she brings to so many in our city. It’s been incredible to watch her bloom both within Rochester, and beyond. While this mural isn’t directly related to @hervoicecarries, it is everything the project is about. Thank you Danielle, for all you give to our city. • • • #danielleponder #hervoicecarries #cityofrochester

Thank you to everyone who came out to last nights National Tour Launch Party @hcmediahaverhill. We were excited to share the origins of this project, honor the voices from Haverhill and kick off the weekend festivities. The support we have received from our first national tour city has been incredible and gives us faith for the rest of the journey. Thank you to @stephguyotte for a wonderful job moderating our Q&A! • • A huge thank you to @switchboard_haverhill for playing the role of community liaison and making events like these possible. Thank you also our event sponsor #thegreaterhaverhillfoundation and to generous food donations from @thehiddenpig. We even got to rep Rochester with a gift from our friends @three_heads_brewing. • • There is another chance to see the film tonight at 7pm @hcmediahaverhill. Suggested donation $10 at door. Hope to see you there!

And they have arrived! Limited copies of @bspfilmsorg‘s film #HerVoiceCarries are now available for purchase through our website (link in bio). Cover design by @karirobs and photography by @livesstyled. (Please allow 10 days for delivery). • • The film covers the Rochester edition of HVC from its very beginnings in 2016, diving into each woman’s story, mission and impact. Featuring Trelawney McCoy, Rachel McKibbens, Imani Olear, Safi Osman and KaeLyn Rich. • • A portion of the proceeds will go towards honoring women’s voices across the country as we continue the national tour. Check out the film as well as additional ways to support the project, including limited Rochester edition posters and bags. • • Finally, thank you for all the support we have received at various points throughout this process here in Rochester - we are excited for big things to come.

Join us tonight at 6pm for @bspfilmsorg film debut of #hervoicecarries, to view the MAG installation "Her Voice Carries | Prelude" and enjoy a reception in the Pavilion sponsored by @brownhounddowntown • • • • About the Film: Film by David Marshall with Co-producers Christine Christopher and Hélène Biandudi-Hofer Her Voice Carries shares mural artist, Sarah C. Rutherford’s journey of discovery as she identifies and collects the stories of ordinary-yet-extraordinary women, visually punctuated by the emerging mural art that will honor their work far beyond the neighborhoods they call home. Blending compelling storytelling and provocative visuals, the film weaves back and forth between the women’s stories and Sarah’s work as she seeks to discover what inspires these women, what drives them, what they have seen, why they do what they do. Women of Her Voice Carries: Rachel McKibbens | Imani Olear | KaeLyn Rich | Safi Osman | Trelawney McCoy *There will be no museum admission charge to anyone coming in to see the movie.

“We will continue to rise because we are the voices of the caged bird, so let us speak because we deserve to be heard.” -Shalinda Bollar • • Final photos of the first wall of the national tour featuring Shalinda Bollar from Rochester, NY painted in downtown Haverhill, MA. In the mural, Shalinda holds out the microphone to the next generation of youth voices. Behind her an arched window is embedded in the wall, originally seen at Eastman Gardens in Rochester, symbolizing a window or gateway from one community to the next. • • Thank you to our sponsors! @opositivefest @switchboard_haverhill @marrcompanies #cityofhaverhill #traggorthcompaniesllc and to everyone in Haverhill that helped to make this wall a success. 📸: @kodyfoto • • • • #hervoicecarries #hervoicecarrieshaverhill #theswitchboardhaverhill #muralism #teenempowerment #HVCNationalTour #shalindabollar #mtncolors #sarahcrutherford

#HVCNationalTour (Haverhill MA Edition)- progress pictures. Mural featuring Shalinda Bollar from Rochester, NY. A huge thank you to our sponsors! @opositivefest @switchboard_haverhill @marrcompanies #cityofhaverhill #traggorthcompaniesllc • • • • #hervoicecarries #hervoicecarrieshaverhill #theswitchboardhaverhill #muralism #teenempowerment

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