City Year/Be the Change, Inc. AYCE Book Launch in Boston 12/8/08

Joel’s beloved friends at City Year and Be the Change, Inc. hosted his Boston book launch to a sizeable crowd of locals and national service corps members.

Several notable local hunger heroes participated, including:

• Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA), who is not only co-chair of the House Hunger Caucus, but showed an amazing fortitude for listening to Joel’s passionate, arm-waving monologues by participating in his second AYCE event; 
• Michael Brown, a national service legend, as well as CEO and co-Founder of City Year;
• Hubie Jones, Dean Emeritus of Boston University’s School of Social Work and demonstrated lover of Bob Dylan lyrics and hominy grits (the latter is according to one of numerous bios you can find online about this esteemed Boston luminary); and 
• Dr. Deborah Frank, expert on child hunger who was quoted frequently in Joel’s book and in a somewhat lesser claim to fame, is also Director of Boston Medical Center’s Grow Clinic for Children.
• Massachusetts’ Department of Transitional Assistance Commissioner Julie Kehoe also attended.

The good folks at Be the Change, Inc. (hip techno-genuises that they are) posted photos and a YouTube video of the entire event here.  You can also see photos from the event on this website, under “Photos” oddly enough.

– posted by Lori Azim