Bill Text: GA HR2126 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Brown, Ms. Angela Elizabeth; commend

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-03-29 - House Read and Adopted [HR2126 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HR2126-Introduced.html
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House Resolution 2126
By: Representative Waites of the 60th

A RESOLUTION


Recognizing and commending Ms. Angela Elizabeth Brown; and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, Ms. Angela Elizabeth Brown is a leading community organizer dedicated to ending human rights abuses within the United States and around the world; and

WHEREAS, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and religion from the University of North Carolina and a Masters of Divinity degree from Interdenominational Theological Seminary; and

WHEREAS, she currently manages Imani Services, Inc., a consulting firm she founded in 2006 that works in partnership with nonprofit organizations to help them develop programs, align organizational strategies, and evaluate value so that nonprofits can grow and develop their mission and vision effectively; and

WHEREAS, she serves in several organizations, including the Charis Circle, the Franklinton Center, the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement, the Southern Association of Black Educators, the Andrew Goodman Foundation's Freedom Summer Project, the Fund for Southern Communities, the Forefront Leaders, the Southern Organizing Community, and the Trinity College-Human Rights Program; and

WHEREAS, she has received numerous honors, including the Reebok Human Rights Award in 1995 and the 2003 Urban Everyday Heroes Award; and

WHEREAS, a woman of deep and abiding faith, Ms. Brown serves as supply pastor at Northern Heights Presbyterian Church and is an ordained elder and minister at First African Presbyterian Church; and

WHEREAS, it is abundantly fitting and proper that the extraordinary accomplishments of this distinguished Georgian be appropriately recognized.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of this body commend Ms. Angela Elizabeth Brown for her effective, efficient, unselfish, and dedicated public service to ending human rights abuses in the United States and around the world.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to Ms. Angela Elizabeth Brown.
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