PRESS ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, October 17, 2016


 CONTACT
Claudia Green
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Fernando Martinez
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Eastern Bank's Quincy Miller, MA Sec. of Labor Ron Walker, Alberto Vasallo, UNITE HERE's Warren Pepicelli to recognize those that support adult immigrant English learning


BOSTON, MA - On Monday, October 24, English for New Bostonians (ENB) and its English Works Campaign will hold the business breakfast event Raising Our Voices: Recognizing ESOL Leadership in Business and the Community to honor nine businesses and labor management partnerships, five prominent policy makers and community leaders, and one student leader, all who promote English language opportunities for adult immigrants.
  • WHO: MA Sec. of Labor Ronald L. Walker II; incoming Eastern Bank President Quincy Miller; President of El Mundo Boston Alberto Vasallo; City of Boston Chief of Economic Development John Barros; Vice President of New England Joint Board UNITE HERE! Warren Pepicelli; State Sens. Sonia Chang-Díaz and Sal DiDomenico; Rep. Tackey Chan; MA DESE Dir. for Adult and Community Learning Services Jolanta Conway; Boston Public School Asst. Superintendent Dr. Frances Esparza; Hongfang Li, Patient Care Technician at BI Deaconess Medical Center; English for New Bostonians and its English Works Campaign.
  • WHERE: Northeastern University Curry Student Center Ballroom, Northeastern University, 346 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115
  • WHAT: Raising Our Voices: Business breakfast event recognizing business and labor partners, state policy makers, community leaders, and students that promote adult English language opportunities for immigrants
  • WHEN: Monday, October 24, 2016 7:30-9:30am
Raising Our Voices will feature an interactive panel with Walker, Miller, Conway and Pepicelli, with opportunities for audience questions. 

ENB will unveil findings from two all-new statewide research reports on adult English learners:  Talking Jobs: Lessons from English for New Bostonians' 2016 ESOL Student Employment Survey and ESOL for Entrepreneurs Year One Report: Lessons and Implications for the Field.

Certificates of Recognition will be presented to:
 
Workforce Leaders:
The Boston Home
in partnership with JVS

Bradford & Bigelow
in partnership with Northern Essex Community College

Corcoran Management Company
 in partnership with Massasoit Community College

Home Market Foods
in partnership with Massasoit Community College/ MassMEP

Joseph Abboud Mfg. Corp.
in partnership with the Immigrants Assistance Center
JP Fuji Group
in partnership with Quincy Asian Resources, Inc.

Raw Seafoods, John Matouk & Co., Blount Fine Foods, Klear Vu Corp., New England Joint Board UNITE HERE
in partnership with Bristol Community College

Roche Brothers Supermarkets
in partnership with the Chinese Progressive Association and Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
 
The Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center
  in partnership with World Education
 
Agents of Change:
Representative Tackey Chan
2nd Norfolk District

Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz
2nd Suffolk District

Senator Sal DiDomenico
Middlesex and Norfolk Districts

Dr. Frances Esparza
Assistant Superintendent, Office for English Language Learners, Boston Public Schools
Finalists (winner TBA):
Nader Acevedo; Sara Bilman; Marie Downey; Francisco Fernandez; Jeffrey Gross; Sergio Jaramillo; Lisa Jochim; Ashley Valentini; Worcester State University's Latino Education Institute
 
Rising Start Student Leader:
H ongfang Li
Patient Care Technician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
ESOL program graduate of Asian American Civic Association and JVS



Presented by
with support from
   
 

and media sponsor

 
English for New Bostonians' mission is to increase access to high-quality English language learning opportunities for adult immigrants. English Works is a statewide, multi-stakeholder campaign calling upon business, labor, community and government leaders to dedicate the needed public and private resources to create a sustainable, high-quality English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) system that addresses the needs of immigrants, their employers and the Commonwealth.