We Received A Grant!!!

Research
Written By John Mills

Grant Award Email

I came home to this email! Our first grant award!!!

Alex Breanne Corporation has been awarded a $5,100 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities (CTH), with funding from the Connecticut State Department of Economics and Community Development/ Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) from the Connecticut State Legislature!!!

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants assist organizations as they maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public. We intend to use this grant to support our efforts to produce a theatrical performance intended to expand our reach in telling the stories of the enslaved.

I’m so excited!!! I'm going to celebrate this first milestone!!!

John Mills

Originally from San Diego, John Mills is a technologist by trade, but an equity advocate and independent scholar by passion. The descendant of both southern and northern enslaved, John focuses on unearthing little known people and stories of this country’s history in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. John presents research through the lens and perspective of a descendant, with intent to inspire understanding and empathy, a means to inspire good, God fearing people, now armed with information, to look into whether they may be unwittingly aligning to biases resulting from the reverberating effects of a past time. John is a member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Council. John is also working with an international team funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in an effort to deliver transformational impact on digital methods in cultural institutions...a means to decolonize museums. Finally, John is working with the state of Connecticut, business leaders and scholars in Middletown, CT to honor and memorialize a former enslaved individual by the name of Prince Mortimer.

https://alexbreanne.org
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