Our great friend, Will Nix, is a Member of the Advisory Board of Journeys in Film. Will sent us information about how teachers can share the movie, Just Mercy, with their students at no cost. Included is a free Curriculum Guide and Student Packet. Thank you Will and all at Journeys in Film for your huge commitment to social justice and to our children.
Journeys in Film believes in amplifying the storytelling power of film to educate the most visually literate generation in history.
We transform entertainment media into educational media by designing and publishing cost-free, educational resources for teachers to accompany carefully chosen feature films and documentaries while meeting mandated standards in all core subjects. Selected films are used as springboards for lesson plans in subjects ranging from math, science, language arts, and social studies to specific topics that have become critical for students to learn.
Keepers of the Commons is creating a new way to stimulate neighborhoods by identifying and connecting often overlooked community leaders to well-established policy and ideas events. We are cultivating local talent to diversify the pipeline by thinking differently about the traditional leadership development paradigm.
Keeper friends and colleagues for life: Lazlo Berdo, Kenya Boswell, Otis L. Bullock Jr., Lucas Codognolla, Dallas Davis, Dee Davis, Bill Golderer, Jeff Grant, Mona Jhaveri, Lorenzo Jones, Jamilla Kamara, Lisa Line, Leah Lizarondo, Jayme Madden, Christian Morris, Robin Morris, Fran Pastore, Sedarius Perotta, Babz Rawls Ivy, Jason Reed, David Sylvester, Courtney Williamson, Ellie Youngblood.- Jeff
The new Keepers of the Commons Video:
PARTNERS
The Keepers network is fueled by access to some of the world’s best ideas conferences. We are grateful to our friends at The Nantucket Project for their early and ongoing support. Please contact us if you’re interested in hosting the Keepers at your next event.
ABOUT THE FOUNDERS
Maia Comeau
Maia is a public affairs leader with over 17 years of experience in international government affairs strategy, institution building, leadership development, and event planning in Washington, DC. Currently, she is the founding principal of Comeau and Company. Maia previously worked for the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She is a graduate of the 2016 class of Presidential Leadership Scholars, led by Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, among other awards and fellowships, and serves on the Board of IMMAP and is a Senior Fellow with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. Before her Washington, DC career, Maia was a professional ballet dancer. She now lives on a historic farm in central Pennsylvania.
Richard G. Phillips, Jr.
Richard’s career has taken him from the U.S. Department of Justice, to the halls of the U.S. Senate, and back to his hometown of Philadelphia to run Pilot Freight Services. He’s widely recognized as business and community leader, including: 2007 appointment to the Pennsylvania State Planning Board; 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year for the Philadelphia Region; 2013 Maguire Award for Outstanding Service to the Philadelphia Community. Currently, he’s a fellow at the Yale Divinity School, working to place human dignity at the center of private enterprise and entrepreneurism, and serves as a trustee of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and on the Commission on Civility and Effective Governance.
