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Community Conversation In-Person
Join the Arlington Street Community Center (ASCC) for a dynamic conversation about the evolving role of community and what it means for Nashua. This is an opportunity to connect with neighbors, share your experiences, and explore project ideas for a stronger, more resilient community.
Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic translations are available. Free food, drinks, and childcare provided. Please register here.
Agenda
5:30 PM
- Doors open
6:00 PM - 6:05 PM
- Welcome Address
6:05 PM - 6:20 PM
- Meet the facilitators and artist; overview of the evening’s discussion
6:20 PM - 7:20 PM
- Facilitated conversation (participants may be broken out into smaller groups)
7:20 PM - 7:30 PM
- Break (if needed)
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM
- Wrap-up and sharing of main themes and thoughts
- Date:
- Friday, May 2, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Location:
- Theater
- Audience:
- Adults All ages
- Categories:
- Community Events Networking
Meet Your Facilitators
Courtney Marshall: Courtney Marshall currently teaches in the English department at Phillips Exeter Academy. Before Exeter, she taught English and Women’s Studies at UNH. She also enjoys researching African-American food history and teaching Zumba classes. She lives in Exeter.
Joshua Tepley: Dr. Joshua Tepley is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Saint Anselm College, where he has taught for the last decade. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Bucknell University (2004) and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame (2013). His research interests include free will, personal identity, ontology (the study of being), and the intersection between philosophy and science fiction.
Mohamed Defaa: Mohamed Defaa is certified by the International Center for Educational and Cultural Consulting in Lyon, France. He earned an MA in Communication and Expression at the University Mohamed V in Rabat, Morocco, and a BA in French Language and Literature from the University Ibn Tofail in Kénitra, Morocco. Defaa has served as an assistant professor of Communication and Cultural Expression at the University Hassan the Second in Casablanca, Morocco, and a college instructor in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He is a French and Arabic teacher at Merrimack High School, and an Arabic instructor at Southern New Hampshire University.