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KING 5 Public Service Announcements

For National Mentoring Month, we teamed up with KING 5 to highlight the guiding lights in our community. KING 5 features four exceptional mentors in our community in a series of 30-second public service announcements.

Click on the links below to watch:

Pastor Patrinell Wright

Willie Austin

Eduardo Mendoça

Erik Lindbergh

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Pastor Patrinell Wright
Mindful Mentor of the Year, 2009

Pastor Wright is the Pastor of the Oneness Christian Center in Seattle, and founder and Director of the Total Experience Gospel Choir. The Choir, which began as a class in gospel music at Seattle’s Franklin High School in 1973, now enjoys international prominence and will be featured in performance during The Guiding Lights Weekend 2010! Since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, Pastor Wright and the Choir have visited several times to rebuild lives and property.  Pastor Wright has received a number of awards, among them the Governor’s Ethnic Heritage Award, Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award, Mahalia Jackson Community Service Award and Edwin Pratt Award from the Urban League of Greater Seattle, and Living Legend Award from Seattle Center.  ABC News named her one of the ‘Persons of the Year’ for 2007.

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Charles Ogletree
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice

The Guiding Lights Weekend is excited to be partnering this year with Professor Charles Ogletree and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. The focus of GLW 2010 will be "Closing the Opportunity Gap" -- in Seattle and beyond.