Pawtucket Pride

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Today we honor the life and legacy of Harvey Milk.

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.

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