Livingston leads in the community classroom

Jennifer Zoghby interviews April Livingston for Focus Magazine. The interview followed the launch of an online fundraiser designed to replace a stolen sculpture of Cudjoe Lewis, the last living enslaved person from the Clotilda and a founder of Africatown. Livingston was committed to donating her own skill and time to raise the funds to replace the sculpture, and used the initiative as an educational opportunity for 18 college interns. The fundraising goal was set at $5,000, and when national and international donations flooded in, that total was easily surpassed, and the idea went from concept to pattern, to pour, within one year. “I wanted to do it for the community,” she said. 

Read the feature in its entirety here: https://focuswc.com/2021/02/03/livingston-leads-in-the-community-classroom/