RIP, Beloved Colleague, Sister and Friend BERTHA GILKEY-BONDS - TopicsExpress

RIP, Beloved Colleague, Sister and Friend BERTHA GILKEY-BONDS (March 18, 1949-May 24, 2014) AWARDS & MEDIA • Keynote Speaker, International Women’s Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 1985 • Appearance, Phil Donahue Show, 1985 • Appearance, The Late Show With Joan Rivers, 1986 • Television, 60 Minutes interview with Morley Safer regarding involvement with Cabrini Green, Chicago and Cochran Gardens. St. Louis, MO, 1987. Link to video: youtube/watch?v=mwKBlrVy39E • Photo, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women who Changed America by Brian Lanker, 1989. Link: barnesandnoble/w/i-dream-a-world-brian-lanker/1014891500 • Ms.Gilkey played a prominent role in an attempt by the Metropolitan Planning Council in Chicago to implement tenant management in Chicago as documented in a 60-minute documentary entitled Fired-up Public Housing Is My Home directed by James R. Martin. The film was seen nationally on Public Television in 1989 and 1990 • Declined a role as a tenant manager in the film, New Jack City, offered by Director Mario Van Peebles, 1990 • Recipient, Loretto Women’s Network Mary Rhodes Award for notable accomplishments in working for peace and acting for justice, especially for women, 1990 • Co-chair of the New York-based National Congress of Neighborhood Women, Gilkey negotiated for government grants helping establishment of tenant management in New York and other cities, beginning 1992 • Recipient, Essence Award, presented by Oprah Winfrey, 1992. Link to video: youtube/watch?v=TmpNgORkGbg • Hostess, President George H. W. Bush, visit to Cochran Gardens Public Housing Development, 1993-1994 • Fired Up! The Bertha Gilkey Story, by John Singleton, 1993 • Interview, “There Goes Their Neighborhood,” article, Chicago Reader, 1998. Link to article: chicagoreader/chicago/there-goes-their-neighborhood/Content?oid=896403 INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING City of Amsterdam, the Netherlands—Low-Income Housing; Budapest, Hungary; Sweden— Public Housing Estate Management; Ghana—Housing, Management; Nairobi, Kenya—Low Income Housing; Scotland, Housing Estates, 50,000 units—Management Issues; England, Broadwater Estates—Resident Management, Cooperative Ownership; New York State—Low-Income Housing; Puerto Rico; St. Thomas, Virgin Islands— Economic Development; Sydney, Australia—Low-Income Housing. Activist Bertha Gilkey 60 minutes featuring Housing Activist Bertha Gilkey. Were a neighborhood, not a project, states Bertha Gilkey with conviction. As an outspoken productive ... YOUTUBE.COM

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