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12 <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />Robin R. Criffield <br />Volunteer Application <br />Orange County Advisory Boards and Commissions <br />Name: <br />Name Called: <br />Home Address: <br />Phone (Day): <br />Phone (Evening) <br />Phone (Cell): <br />Email: <br />Place of Employment: <br />Job Title: <br />Year of OC Residence: <br />Township of Residence: <br />Zone of Residence: <br />Sex: <br />Ethnic Background: <br />Robin R. Criffield <br />800B Davie Road <br />Carrboro NC 27510 <br />919- 933 -5505 <br />919- 933 -5505 <br />919- 933 -5505 <br />robincriffield @msn.com <br />UNC Institute for Global Health <br />Business Administration <br />1995 <br />Chapel Hill <br />Female <br />Caucasian <br />Community Activities /Organizational Memberships: <br />Racial Equality Institute; Organizing Against Racism - Orange OAR. <br />Chapel Hill / Carrboro NAACP <br />We Are One Annual conference planning committee member and the We Are One <br />Community Service Chair for six years. We Are One is an inclusive social <br />empowerment organization dedicated to foster unity, fellowship, and friendships that <br />cross boundaries of race, culture, class, and economics, religion, sexual orientation and <br />other differences, so that people have an opportunity to share and learn from each other. <br />They believe in the strength of unity, the necessity of equality and justice for all people, <br />and the individual and community healing happens only in relationship with each other. <br />Past Service on Orange County Advisory Boards: <br />None <br />Boards /Commissions applied for: <br />Human Relations Commission <br />Background, education and experience relevant to this board: <br />I have a bachelors degree in Sociology, with a minor in Social and Economic Justice. I <br />have participated in dRWorks and REI dismantling racism trainings for over 15 years. I <br />am a planning team member of Organizing Against Racism (OAR) and help co -lead a <br />monthly white caucus in Orange County. I ve recently been asked to be part of a trainthe- <br />trainers group to learn how to facilitate the two -day multi - racial dismantling racism <br />workshops. <br />Before UNC, I worked for 12 years in an affordable housing agency, first as the Family <br />Services Director, and then the Associate Director. I worked to ensure board and staff <br />had a foundational justice analysis of our work that included the racialized history of <br />housing and the disproportionate need based on both current and historical economic <br />disparity. As part of my role, I was an ex officio member on the affordable housing <br />