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293 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine SOCIAL SERVICES AND NONPROFIT continue advocating for the African American Settlement Community Commission. In an effort to remain involved in civic activities, as the founder of the Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival Association, Ms. Stokes- Marshall established the nonprofit in 2001. To ensure that the next generation would learn the sweetgrass basket making art form techniques and its history, in 2005, she established the Sweetgrass Basket Making Summer Camp. In 2006, Ms. Stokes-Marshall collaborated with the College of Charleston’s Avery Research Institute to produce “Bin Yah, There’s No Place Like Home,” a DVD that focuses on the negative impacts created and caused by the increase of residential and commercial development to lifelong local African American residents. She collaborated with the Charleston Gibbs Museum to produce the “Grass Roots, African Origins of an American Art” traveling exhibition. She also serves as a mentor for medical students. Ms. Stokes-Marshall received the 2019 Women Who Impact Preservation Award from the Historic Charleston Foundation. She earned the 2017 Atlantic Peace and Dialogue Award, the 2006 and 2016 Preserving Our Place in History Recognition, and the 2015 Charleston Chapter and Aging in Place Gift of Giving Award. Previously, she was honored by the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, South Carolina Tourism Society, Raleigh Institute, South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, East Cooper Community Civic Association and Phillip Community Civic Association. Ms. Stokes-Marshall was a corrections officer for the NewYork Department of Corrections from 1972 to 1977. She also served as a detective first grade with the New York City Police Department from 1977 to 1991. She received a BA in public administration and community organization from New York University in 1990. R epresenting the citizens of her community, Thomasena Stokes- Marshall excelled as the only African American town council member for the Town of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, in which she served from 1998 to 2015. As the voice, eyes and ears of the community, she fought for a senior center and plans to THOMASENA STOKES- MARSHALL TOWN COUNCIL MEMBER Town of Mount Pleasant Mount Pleasant, SC