Monroe County Legislature President to Speak at MCC’s MLK Day Celebration
February 10, 2023
Note: Because Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls before the start of the spring semester, MCC has planned this event at a time when school is in session.
BRIGHTON, N.Y. – Sabrina LaMar, president of the Monroe County Legislature and a member of Monroe Community College Board of Trustees, will serve as the keynote speaker for MCC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at noon Monday, Feb. 13, in the Warshof Conference Center, R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center (Monroe A & B) on MCC’s Brighton Campus, 1000 E. Henrietta Road.
Sabrina LaMar, Monroe County Legislature president and MCC board trustee
Based on the event’s theme “Is There Anyone Right Left?,” her speech will focus on the need for leadership. “The iconic leaders of the Rochester’s past are gone, and we need new leaders to carry their torch and find solutions to today’s problems,” LaMar’s office said in a statement. “We’d better be right because we’re the only ones who are left.”
The program, scheduled from noon to 1 p.m., will include poetry readings by MCC students and gospel singing.
As County Legislature president, LaMar is the first and only African American woman to serve in that role in the county’s history. She represents the 27th District, composed of Rochester’s 19th Ward where she resides with her family, and has built a record on issues relating to mental health, child care, homelessness, and racial and gender equity. She was appointed and then elected to the Legislature in 2019 and re-elected in 2022.
Born and raised in Rochester, she serves as CEO of PUSH Publishing. She also works as project coordinator for the Community Engagement to Reduce Victimization at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives.
LaMar graduated from Rochester Business Institute. In addition to serving as vice chair for ROC Against Gun Violence Coalition, she is a member of the 19th Ward Association, African American Health Alliance, and Rochester Youth Violence Partnership. Additionally, she serves as a member of Baber African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Reparations and Universal Income Committee as well as an executive board member of Action for a Better Community and Rise Up Rochester. She works alongside community partners in developing and implementing programs that effect change.