2023 MAWOCC Annual Meeting

Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition (MAWOCC)  is dedicated to eradicating the racial inequities among women of color created by structural, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized racism. We will address racial inequities through authentic inclusion in the areas of political & civic Leadership, education justice, economic power & sustainability, criminal justice reform and health and wellness. Our success will maximize the benefits and contributions for all aggrieved communities of color and the Commonwealth as a whole. MAWOCC is a non partisan organization. MAWOCC does not support or oppose any particular candidate or political party.

MASSACHUSETTS WOMEN OF COLOR COALITION

Please join MAWOCC for our first in-person meeting since January 2020!

The Hogan Center

MAWOCC is excited to welcome its members, allies, &amp; supporters to our first in-person annual meeting since January 2020. This year&#x27;s meeting will feature a networking reception, keynote speaker (Danielle Allen), special guest speaker (Judge Shannon Frison), a moderated Q&amp;A session, MAWOCC&#x27;s 2023 plans revealed, the 2022 annual report, breakout sessions, and opportunities for you to share your feedback and to ask questions. More exciting details will be announced leading up to the annual meeting. T﻿ickets are $25. Admission is FREE for high school and college students. Students should enter the promo code STUDENT during checkout, and also email MassachusettsWOCC@gmail.com with your student/college info.Register today!

MAWOCC is a non-partisan organization. We do not support or oppose any particular candidate or political party.

Danielle Allen is a seasoned nonprofit leader, democracy advocate, national voice on pandemic response, distinguished author, and mom. She is a professor of public policy, politics, and ethics at Harvard University, Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, and James Bryant Conant University Professor, one of Harvard’s highest honors. Danielle’s work to make the world better for young people has taken her from teaching college and leading a $60 million university division to driving change at the helm of a $6 billion foundation, writing for the Washington Post, advocating for cannabis legalization, democracy reform, and civic education, and most recently, to running for governor of Massachusetts. During the height of COVID in 2020, Danielle’s leadership in rallying coalitions and building solutions resulted in the country’s first-ever Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience; her policies were adopted in federal legislation and a Biden executive order. Danielle made history as the first Black woman ever to run for statewide office in Massachusetts. She continues to advocate for democracy reform to create greater voice and access in our democracy, and drive progress towards a new social contract that delivers healthy communities, a healthy democracy, and a healthy climate for our country and our Commonwealth.

Justice Shannon Frison was appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court in March of 2013 atage 42. She is the youngest judge on that court. Justice Frison took that seat after serving formore than 3 years on the Boston Municipal Court in from 2009-2013, beginning her tenure onthe bench at age 39. She is a jurist, a Major of Marines, and a mentor to new trial lawyers.Before appointment, Justice Frison practiced locally and abroad as owner of Frison Law Firm,P.C. Her practice focused on “blue collar” criminal law and military justice. She tried severalhigh profile murder, rape, and conspiracy cases in the Boston area and in the military courts ofNorth Carolina, Pensacola, Florida, and Okinawa, Japan. Her final case before taking the benchwas a tragic and complex quadruple murder that occurred in Dorchester and was tried in SuffolkSuperior Court. In that matter, she defended the man accused of all four murders of four youngmen in a basement music studio. The trial lasted over a month and included more than 60witnesses.Justice Frison spent nearly seven years as a litigation associate at the former white collar defensefirm Dwyer &amp; Collora, LLP in Boston prior to opening her own firm. She earned her Bachelorsdegree in Government from Harvard &amp; Radcliffe Colleges in 1992 and her Juris Doctor fromGeorgetown University Law Center in 1995. Justice Frison was admitted to the MassachusettsBar in 1995, and began her career as an Assistant District Attorney with the Norfolk CountyDistrict Attorney’s Office where she worked out of the Quincy District Court. Justice Frison holds the rank of Major in the United States Marine Corps, and is a Marine CorpsJudge Advocate. She completed Officer Candidates School and accepted her commission in theU.S. Marine Corps in 1994; and she completed The Basic School and Naval Justice School in1997. From 1997-2000 she was the prosecutor aboard Marine Corps Air Station New River inJacksonville, North Carolina. Since the beginning of the hostilities in Afghanistan and Iraq,Justice Frison has been mobilized to active duty twice in support of the Global War on Terror inboth legal and nonlegal capacities. Her duties have taken her to the G-5 War Plans Branch of theMarine Forces Pacific in Hawaii as well as the Keystone Judicial Circuit in Japan. In addition toserving the country and practicing law, she has served as a Guberman Teaching Fellow atBrandeis University for three years teaching "Introduction to Law,” as well as appearing as guestlecturer at Brandeis on military justice and military tribunals. Justice Frison was also recently amember of the Boston Bar Association’s Task Force To Prevent Wrongful Convictions andHarvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop. And, she is the immediate past president ofthe Massachusetts Black Judges Conference.

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