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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Berklee City Music Eighth Annual Unsung Heroes Brea
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 _City_Music_Eighth_Annual_Unsung_Heroes_Breakfast\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-
 01-22\nEvent Date End: 2011-01-22\n\nBerklee City Music honors First Lady 
 Diane Patrick at its Eighth Annual Unsung Heroes Breakfast\, recognizing t
 hose who have made significant contributions to the local community as edu
 cators\, artists\, and mentors. Patrick\, a lawyer\, teacher\, and active 
 member of her community\, will be the keynote speaker at the event\, where
  she will be honored for her many outstanding contributions in early child
 hood development and to the legal system. Berklee City Music's Unsung Hero
 es Breakfast takes place Saturday\, January 22\, 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m.\, at
  Berklee's David Friend Recital Hall\, located at 921 Boylston St.\, Bosto
 n\, MA. The event is FREE and open to the public. For more information\, p
 lease call 617-747-6059.  Special guests include Keith P. Jones\, disabili
 ty rights consultant\, composer\, producer\, and hip-hop artist\; and Clif
 ford Weeks\, director of the Berklee City Music Faculty Outreach Program a
 nd the second African American educator to teach in South Boston. They wil
 l participate in a panel discussion moderated by Krystal Banfield Ed. D.\,
  senior director of Berklee City Music. The panelists will discuss Boston'
 s bussing era\, its impact on the city\, and the ways the community has si
 nce worked to heal itself.  The event also includes performances by the Be
 rklee City Music Preparatory Academy Choir\, City Music All-Stars\, and th
 e Hyde Square Task Force Dance Troop.  Diane Patrick has served on the Boa
 rds of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay\, Jane Doe\, Inc.\, and Brigham
  and Women's Hospital\, among others. Currently\, she serves on the Board 
 of the Posse Foundation and is an overseer at The Epiphany School. She has
  also been an outspoken advocate in the Commonwealth's ongoing effort to e
 nd domestic violence.  Patrick spent her early childhood in Brooklyn. Her 
 grandfather was the first African American elected to public office in Bro
 oklyn\, and co-authored the Baker-Metcalf bill\, the nation's first law en
 acted to prohibit discrimination in public housing. She received her BA in
  early childhood education in 1972\, graduating with honors from Queens Co
 llege of the City University of New York.  After graduation\, Patrick spen
 t five years teaching elementary school in New York City. When the city's 
 bankruptcy of 1976-77 forced severe cuts in public resources\, including h
 er job\, she crossed the country to study at Loyola Law School in Los Ange
 les. At Loyola\, she began her study of labor and employment law\, which s
 he practices today. Her exemplary academic performance and public service 
 won her an American Jurisprudence Award and the school's Outstanding Gradu
 ate Award.  She received her Juris Doctor in 1980\, and was admitted to th
 e California Bar that same year.  Patrick joined the firm of O'Melveny and
  Myers\, and in 1983\, was asked to assist in the opening of its New York 
 City office. Recently engaged to Deval Patrick\, the young couple relocate
 d to the East Coast\, where Mr. Patrick took a position with the NAACP Leg
 al Defense and Education Fund.  They were married in 1984. In 1986\, a yea
 r after the birth of their first daughter Sarah\, the Patrick family moved
  to Massachusetts. Mrs. Patrick took a position at Harvard as University A
 ttorney in the Office of General Counsel\, where she spent six years befor
 e becoming Harvard's Director/Associate Vice President for Human Resources
 . In 1994\, Patrick took a job with the Washington D.C. firm Hogan and Har
 tson\, where she worked with both the education and labor and employment l
 aw practice groups. She joined the law firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston in 1
 995.  Berklee City Music is the college's strategic educational initiative
  that uses contemporary music to reach underserved fourth- to 12th-graders
 . Programming includes instruction by expert faculty\, individualized ment
 oring\, after-school classes\, Saturday schooling\, summer study\, and ful
 l-tuition scholarships to attend Berklee at no cost to the students or the
 ir families. City Music has provided educational and mentoring opportuniti
 es to more than 1\,000 local teens from urban areas since 1991.  Four year
 s ago\, Berklee's City Music Network&mdash\;launched in 2001&mdash\;expand
 ed to include partnerships with community organizations nationwide that ac
 tively share the goal of changing teenage lives with contemporary music ed
 ucation.\n\nStart time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 pm
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