Welcome to the conversation!


Welcome to the conversation!

Harriet Beecher Stowe's (1811-1896) best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), made her the most famous American woman of the 19th century and galvanized the abolition movement before the Civil War.

The Stowe Center is a 21st-century museum and program center using Stowe's story to inspire social justice and positive change.

The Salons at Stowe programs are a forum to connect the challenging issues (race, gender and class) that impelled Stowe to write and act with the contemporary face of those same issues. The Salon format is based on a robust level of audience participation, with the explicit goal of promoting civic engagement. Recent topics included: Teaching Acceptance; Is Prison the New Slavery; Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North; Creativity and Change; Race, Gender and Politics Today; How to be an Advocate

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

#SalonatStowe: Meet the Featured Guests

This Thursday, join us for our latest Salon at Stowe: Combatting Environmental Racism.

Rev. Steve Camp

Senior Pastor, Faith Congregational Church
Rev. Steve Camp is the Senior Pastor at Faith Congregational Church in Hartford. He has served there since 2009. Born and raised in the Hartford area, he grew up in Faith Congregational Church. He graduated from Bethune-Cookman College and Chicago Theological Seminary. He has served congregations in Ohio and in the Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ.

Rev. Camp has been a member of the Executive Council of the United Church of Christ, the Council of Conference Ministers, and the Cornerstone Fund (the UCC banking entity) of the national setting of the United Church of Christ. He is also an active part of the Ministers for Racial, Social and Economic Justice (MRSEJ) and the UCC United Black Christians. Rev. Camp recently returned from a trip to Flint, Michigan, where he investigated and brought relief to those impacted by the water crisi.

Rev. Kari Nicewander

Senior Pastor, Immanuel Congregational Church
Rev. Kari Nicewander is the Senior Pastor at Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford. She has served there since 2015. Kari grew up in Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan and Harvard Divinity School. She has served congregations in Michigan and Massachusetts and prior to coming to Hartford, served in a ministry in Zambia. She is married to Joel DeJong and they have two children. With Rev. Camp, Rev. Nicewander has also recently returned from Flint.

Sharon Lewis

Sharon Lewis is the Executive Director of the CT Coalition for Environmental Justice. She is committed to working for environmental justice in Hartford and in the state of CT. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and worked for corporate America in the reinsurance and insurance industry for seventeen years. In the 1990's she left a lucrative career in the reinsurance industry  to become a social activist in the environmental justice movement fighting for the rights of low income and communities of color to be free from pollution and to have equal access to the decision making process with regard to environmental policies. 


The Salon will begin at 5:30 pm is the Stowe Center Visitor Center. What questions will you ask the featured guests? Share in the comments below!

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