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8 <br /> Page 1 of 2 Robin R. Criffield <br /> Volunteer Application <br /> Orange County Advisory Boards and Commissions <br /> Name: Robin R. Criffield <br /> Name Called: <br /> Home Address: 800B Davie Road <br /> Carrboro NC 27510 <br /> Phone (Day): 919-933-5505 <br /> Phone (Evening): 919-933-5505 <br /> Phone (Cell): 919-933-5505 <br /> Email: robincriffield @msn.com <br /> Place of Employment: UNC Institute for Global Health <br /> Job Title: Business Administration <br /> Year of OC Residence: 1995 <br /> Township of Residence: Chapel Hill <br /> Zone of Residence: <br /> Sex: Female <br /> Ethnic Background: 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 />