10/12/2021 MASHPEE INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY COMMITTEE Minutes

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.. `OVfl It.II�r Aashpee lncCusion and�Divers ly Committee 16 Great Neck Road North Aashpee, Aassachusetts 02649 Ms. Field talks to a lot of schools, communities, assemblies, and she has worked with students in classrooms about how to approach people from other cultures, and how do we learn their stories. She is doing a class right now with immigrant teenagers. They are interviewing their family members and taking photographs. One thing she's been doing for exhibits based on her book, she shows the portrait but also shows their story with a write up. She has QR codes where you hold your phone up to scan and you can hear a bit of their accent when they speak. She has releases on every piece she does. She is very interested in what MIDC is looking for, in hopes to enhance the diversity work. When Ms. Field speaks she likes to give an overview of a photographers view. She is amazed at the focus of diversity in this community. She is hopeful to find many journey stories within. Ms. Field explained her background is in biology, but she came from a very photographic family. A lot of her time was spent in dark rooms with her father. It was after she left the scientific world where she fell in love with photography again. She has a certificate in Photographic Art. What is unique is her ability to connect with people easily and bring them together and make them feel comfortable in sharing their stories. People have been enthusiastic about photographing themselves and their families. They have very little, coming from almost nothing, and she will often times give them a piece for their walls. Ms. Field had to learn how to not to write like a scientist, but she enjoys it. The second book only took her about a year. Ms. Johnson-Graham acknowledged the Wampanoag flag was just raised for the first time at all three schools in Town. Ms. Nadeau noted Ms. Field's work is amazing. She inquired about the pictures in 2013/2014, it looked like many towns around Concord had immigrant populations. She asked Ms. Field if she felt like she developed a relationship with the people she was photographing. As she was inspired by the hate crimes, did she feel that her work helped in any way to alleviate the misunderstanding of an immigrant population? Ms. Field notes the books and presentations helped, New Hampshire as a whole has been changing their attitudes. There have been many factors so it is difficult to sort out what influences were her own. 7