Kimberly Ellis

==Background==
* against gambling and organized rally in Hill District
==Bio from 2009 award via Thomas Merton Center==
Kimberly Ellis is a scholar, poet, dancer, choreographer, writer and cultural critic. With her multi-media presentation, “Dr. Goddess!: A One-Woman Show,” Ellis offers comedic and thoughtful commentary on race, class, gender and sexuality, mass consumerism, male/female relationships, globalization and the African Diaspora. Also a neighborhood activist, in Ellis won the YWCA's Racial Justice Award on November 19, 2008 for her work on the "Raise Your Hand! No Casino on the Hill" Campaign, which helped lay the foundation for the first-ever Community Benefits Agreement in the State of Pennsylvania.
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===Media===
* Pittsburgh - Freedom Corner Push: Freedom from Casino Pittsburgh City Paper. Kimberly Ellis wasn't sure what direction the two-day Raise Your Hand! No Casino on the Hill' rally/street theater would take. On opening day, Nov. 3, she had set up Freedom Corner at Centre Ave. and Crawford Street in the Hill District with microphones for anyone to use, while a sound system played her own song, 'Raise Your Hand! The Hill Freedom Song,' on a loop.
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