Events

Join with facilitator Daniel Pascoe-Aguilar, founding director of The Center for Social Justice and Chief Diversity Officer for Excelsior University in a facilitated conversation about careers - options, paths, expectations, justice connections, and more. Access The Center for Social Justice online at https://www.excelsior.edu/about/center-for-social-justice/ This conversation will be hybrid - in-person at The Myers Residence and online…

The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence will be closed on Friday, March 29 and Saturday, March 30. The Residence will reopen on Monday, April 1 at normal business hours. Thank you for your understanding. 

Buy your Girl Scout cookies in person at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence on Friday, April 5 between 5pm-7pm. A list of cookies can be found at https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop88888153?fpkp=1 When you buy Girl Scout Cookies, you help young entrepreneurs develop five essential life skills: Skill #1: Goal Setting Girl Scouts learn how to set goals and…

Michael Lucas, Archeologist with the State Museum, will discuss the little known but surprising and fascinating story of owner-operated African American farms in the Capital region in the 1800s as revealed in unique historical archaeological sources. Lucas and his team have identified a handful of Black-owned farming families who operated in the area during the…

  The Executive Committee of the UREC Board will meet on April 9 to plan the April 16 Board Meeting agenda. The Executive Committee meeting will be held via zoom. This meeting is for the officers of the Board of UREC. If you have something to share with the Executive Committee please share it with…

Excelsior University, the Community Engagement Group, the Center for Social Justice, and the Excelsior University Rope Teams are thrilled to be hosting an amazing panel of internal and external community leaders as part or Excelsior’s participation in Volunteering Week. The panel will be held during Excelsior University’s Charter Day & Volunteer Week, on April 10 at…

Join Paul and Mary Liz Stewart at the Bach Library branch of the Albany Public Library as they share a new interpretation of an old story. Visit https://albany.librarycalendar.com/event/underground-railroad-revisited-10860 for more information.

In order for UREC to build the Interpretive Center, rezoning of the properties owned by Underground Railroad Education Center must be rezoned from Residential Townhouse (R-T) to Mixed Use - Neighborhood Edge (MU-NE). This rezoning must go before the public at a Public Hearing to be held at the Albany Community Development Agency building located…

Join with others to discuss Kendi's compelling treatise on antiracism. With his reader-friendly style, Kendi draws the reader in from the first page to the last. "Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves…

Monthly URHPCR Board Meetings are open to the public. Pay us a visit. Listen in on the discussions that inform implementation of the mission-based vision of UREC. Board meetings are hybrid. Please contact Mary Liz Stewart, Executive Director, to inform her of your intent to attend. Directions will be provided for accessing the Zoom meeting.…

The multiple challenges and threats taking place around us, locally, nationally, and internationally, are affecting one way or another our attention, our ability to take care of our responsibilities, as well as our relationships. From the cost of groceries we experience every week to the political rhetoric and the immigration and international crises about which we…