One Hill CBA Expert coming to Allentown Aug 15, 7pm,

The Allentown Community Benefits Coalition will hold a public meeting on Aug 15, 7pm, @ Zion's United Church of Christ, 620 W. Hamilton St to form strategic partnerships and specific demands on developers who are using public tax dollars for financial gain.CBA expert, Dr. Bonni Young Lang of the One Hill CBA Coalition will be the guest speaker. Dr. Laing is an associate professor of social work at Youngstown State University. She is a native of the Hill District and has served as a community organizer with One Hill Community Benefits Coalition and the Hill District Consensus Group. Her current work and scholarship center on equitable and inclusionary community planning and development in the Hill District.  She holds an MSW with a concentration in community health and mental health from West Virginia University and a Ph.D. in social work from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has published work in the areas of African centered community organizing, labor/community partnerships, community development in African American communities and culturally competent macro practice. (read more) One Hill CBA Expert coming to Allentown Aug 15, 7pm,