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Jenni & Tony Kuida-Osumi

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Jenni & Tony Kuida-Osumi's Story

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Jenni & Tony were fortunate to meet Grace back in 1998 and host her at our house at the request of our friend Scott Kurashige when Grace came to UCLA for the Serve the People conference, where she was to speak on a panel with Yuri Kochiyama.  This was the year that her autobiography "Living for Change" was published. It was the start of a wonderful friendship with Grace as she connected with Nobuko Miyamoto, founder and Artistic Director of Great Leap where Jenni was working at the time.  The next four summers, Tony and Jenni went to Detroit to join Detroit Summer, learn about urban gardening (shoveling hay into our rental car and delivering it to a former crack house brings back some fun memories) and help envision mural projects in Cass Corridor, the Cass Co-op and Detroit's Chinatown.  For the next several years, Great Leap engaged in projects such as "To All Relations:  Re-Spiriting Detroit" and toured in and around Detroit and Michigan from East Lansing, to Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn. We stayed at the Grace's house on numerous occasions meeting students, artists and activists from Detroit and all over the country.

In 2005, when our daughter was born, we named her Maiya Grace in Grace's honor and were able to take her to Detroit to meet Grace when she was a toddler, and again when she was 5 for Grace's 95th Birthday.

We are helping to organize to turn the historic home of Jimmy and Grace Lee Boggs on the Eastside of Detroit into a community museum. A crowdfunding campaign coinciding with Grace’s 106th birthday (June 27) launched to appeal to the public, especially those who knew and loved Grace and Jimmy. I hope you can take a minute to read about why we feel this is a vitally necessary project for these times and share this link with others: https://givebutter.com/BoggsHouse

The fundraising campaign is on a website called Givebutter, which is similar to GoFundMe but more friendly to nonprofit organizations. This easy-to-use website also allows for a range of ways that supporters can help spread the word directly from the campaign page, including sending emails and sharing on social media like Facebook and Twitter. Anyone can also text BOGGS to (202) 858-1233 to give a donation with your phone.

Please help our friends at the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership and the Jimmy and Grace Lee Boggs Foundation in their effort to make this dream a reality.  Support #BoggsHouse!

With gratitude,

The Kuida-Osumi Family - Jenni, Tony & Maiya Grace

(Photo credit:  Abraham Ferrer/Visual Communications, Los Angeles 2013)

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James and Grace Lee Boggs Foundation

A 501(c)(3) Private Non-Operating Foundation

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