2026 Annual Meeting: Community Healing Through the Arts
Date
May 12, 2026
Time
4:00 p.m.
Location
Shubert Theatre, 247 College St., New Haven, CT
Topic
Presenter(s)
President & CEO Karen DuBois-Walton; Board Chair Fernando Muñiz
Thank you to all who joined us for The Community Foundation's 2026 Annual Meeting, community Healing Through the Arts, featuring President & CEO Karen DuBois-Walton and Board Chair Fernando Muñiz along with guest artists poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and singer Paul Bryant Hudson.
Watch the Video highlights below.
Watch Betts' reading and his full conversation with Karen DuBois-Walton.
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Featured Artists
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, lawyer and the Founder & CEO of Freedom Reads.
He is the author of a memoir and four collections of poetry including Felon, winner of the American Book Award. He also holds a J.D. from Yale Law School.
In 2020, Betts founded Freedom Reads with a mission to open libraries in prison cellblocks. To date, Freedom Reads has opened 520 Freedom Libraries in 52 adult and youth prisons across 13 states.
Paul Bryant Hudson is a musician, singer-songwriter and composer from New Haven, where he is an active and invested community member.
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