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Today we honor the life and legacy of Harvey Milk.

Meet Christine: Secretary and Director of Partnerships

Christine Murray, LCSW, Co-Director of Pawtucket Pride and a Rhode Island native, has been a Licensed Certified Social Worker in the state of Massachusetts since 2018 and a Clinical Social Worker in the state of Rhode Island since 2019. She received her Master’s Degree from Rhode Island College School of Social Work in 2017 and Bachelor of Arts Degree in 2009 where she majored in Neuroscience and minored in Women’s Studies at Wheaton College (MA).

Christine also studied Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the U.S. at the San Francisco State University National Sexuality Resource Center Summer Institute in 2009. She co-developed a Safe Zone program and coordinated LGBTQ+ pride events at Thiel College (PA), and volunteered with AIDS Care Ocean State for a few years. Christine has worked with collegiate and high school youth in her years coaching hurdles at Thiel and managing retail operations at Delia’s Inc. Christine has worked with youth from 1st to 5th grade as a volunteer Cub Scout Leader for five years, collaborating with community partnerships for her cub scouts to earn their badges.

Christine has a life-long commitment to empowering and advocating alongside individuals and populations who have experienced vulnerability, oppression, and/or poverty. Christine is passionate about human dignity and social justice, and has worked with adults and the geriatric population with substance use, mental health issues, and disabilities in the community. She’s also been a Clinical Coordinator at Kaleidoscope Family Solutions since 2019, providing in-home and community support for medicaid-approved MA residents on the Acquired Brain Injury and Moving Forward Program waivers. Christine continues to educate herself as a social worker to practice cultural humility, and has attended workshops on preventing su***de, affordable housing, historical mass truama and racism, neurodiversity, and expanding diversity to actively include disabilities.

Meet Melissa: Director of Advocacy & Public Safety

The Honorable Melissa DaRosa has a BA of Science with an individualized study in Community Development & Social Justice Advocacy. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of another local non-profit organization called Knowledge is Power 401. Since 2008, this organization has been hosting peaceful events and programs in an effort to decrease violence in the community.

All the success, trials, tribulations, education, lessons, and knowledge Melissa has from life, school, her career, and KnowledgeisPower401 has inspired her to create a real world learning project. She created a resource for families affected by unsolved murder. It’s a tool to bring the community, police, universities, and families together to seek justice for local unsolved murders through Truthloveandjustice.com.

Since 2008, she has been a Certified Nonviolence Trainer and has organized many Nonviolence trainings throughout RI. She has been the Pawtucket Nonviolence Streetworker with the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence since 2012. She currently builds relationships, gathers information, and mediates conflicts to prevent violence. As a Streetworker, she responds to the hospital for stabbings, shootings, and homicides in an effort to: work with the families affected by the violence; understand the community dynamics that cause violence; and prevent retaliations. She currently provides one-to-one advocacy and mentoring, as well as acts as a positive presence in the streets and in the lives of high-risk youth.

Meet Alexis: Treasurer and Director of Marketing & Operations

As we all together can recognize, Pawtucket needs leaders that are forward-thinking, community-oriented, and hopeful for the future. We need diverse, decisive, and inclusive leadership more than ever in this time of great struggle, unrest, and change. Alexis Schuette is that leader for Ward 4. She’s a lifelong progressive with both the skills and gumption to help her city work through this tumultuous time with strong ideas and, even more critically, strong action.

Alexis has proven herself as a team player, servant-leader, and discerning problem-solver over many years in roles at some of the most recognizable technology companies in the world. As a leader on product teams with Dun & Bradstreet, Vistaprint, and The Grommet, she built and nurtured teams that consistently overachieved while also having a great time working together. She cut her teeth in customer service managing many of Boston’s most beloved theatres and repairing technology at the Boylston Street Apple Store Genius Bar. She truly believes that with enough time, resources, and psychological safety, teams can achieve incredible feats together and solve practically any problem.

She believes Pawtucket is both ready and eager for new, diverse leaders to usher the city into a future where access to technology is, not only important, but critical to the well-being of all citizens. From education to healthcare, commerce to hospitality, local government to individual entrepreneurship, Alexis is ready to tackle the big task of lifting her whole community up and shining a light on what must be changed in order for all of us to live lives that make us proud, safe, and happy.

Alexis currently serves as the Pawtucket representative to the Board of Advisors for Envision Lead Grow, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to increasing the rate of entrepreneurship and breaking the cycle of poverty for middle school girls in underserved communities throughout the United States.

Alexis and her roommate Ghost (a big ol’ Maine C**n cat) live together in the Quality Hill neighborhood of Pawtucket.

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Pawtucket Pride updated their phone number.

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Pawtucket Pride updated their business hours.