Ms. Beverly Sadownick Smrha

Beverly Sadownick Smrha, Secretary
...
Ms. Smrha is a founding board member of Project Harvest Hope, and facilitated the initial community discussions with local partners in Romania.She recently retired as the District Executive, Pacific Central District of the Unitarian Universalist Association, serving Northern California, Northern Nevada, and Hawaii.Ms. Smrha has thirty years of grassroots organizing and community development experience, including employment as Project Director for Growth: It's Problems and Opportunities, of Houston, Texas, overseeing the design, funding and implementation of an urban planning project.She was responsible for identifying community needs, negotiating dialogue among two hundred community leaders from disparate interest groups to formulate areas of agreement and plan of action, and establishing a task force which addressed urban revitalization through public/private partnership.Ms. Smrha was the Executive Director for Transportation Alternatives Project in Berkeley, CA, and an Associate with the World Institute on Disability.

Speakers included Eric Stover, Director, Human Rights Program, Townsend Center for the Humanities, U.C. Berkeley, who spoke about accountability and criminal justice for Balkan war crimes; and Beverly Smrha, Executive, Pacific Central District of the Unitarian Universalist Association, who reported on Project Harvest Hope, an assistance project designed by the First Unitarian Church of Oakland to assist a Hungarian village in Romania.

Beverely Smrha

Ms. Smrha is a founding board member of Project Harvest Hope, and facilitated the initial community discussions with local partners in Romania.

She is retired as the District Executive, Pacific Central District of the Unitarian Universalist Association, serving Northern California, Northern Nevada, and Hawaii.

Ms. Smrha has thirty years of grassroots organizing and community development experience, including employment as Project Director for Growth: Its Problems and Opportunities, of Houston, Texas, overseeing the design, funding and implementation of an urban planning project. She was responsible for identifying community needs, negotiating dialogue among two hundred community leaders from disparate interest groups to formulate areas of agreement and plan of action, and establishing a task force which addressed urban revitalization through public/private partnership.

Ms. Smrha was the Executive Director for Transportation Alternatives Project in Berkeley, CA, and an Associate with the World Institute on Disability.

Beverly Sadownick Smrha, Secretary

Beverely Smrha

Beverly Smrha, District Executive of the UUA's Pacific Central District

Beverly Smrha
...
Beverly Smrha, District & Congregational Services Consultant

Beverly Smrha
...
Beverly Smrha, District & Congregational Services Consultant