Foundation Convenings

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

Presenter(s)

President & CEO Karen DuBois-Walton; Board Chair Fernando Muñiz

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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.


Photo Gallery

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Featured Artists

Reginald Dwayne Betts

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.

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Paul Bryant Hudson

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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