The Columbia Film Society welcomes new board members
May 7, 2021
Tiffany Adams and Aleksandra Chauhan have been appointed to fill unexpired terms on the Board of Directors of the Columbia Film Society.
Tiffany Adams is the Senior Pastor and Founder of The Way Worship Center, a nondenominational ministry for the LGBTQ community. She has participated in Nickelodeon talkbacks and been involved in many community outreach efforts, in particular to people who are homeless. Having served on the Board of Directors for both SC Black Pride and SC Equality, Adams was honored with the “Unsung Hero Award” by the SC Pride Movement. She has been featured on local and statewide media, and her workshop debunking the religious arguments surrounding homosexuality in scripture has been presented at regional colleges and universities, including South Carolina State University, Newberry College, and Georgia State University.
Dr. Aleksandra Chauhan is the Juvenile Defender Advocate at the South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense. She has a long history of working with foundations to gain substantial support for innovative juvenile justice projects. She supported development of Resilient Richland, a project to recognize, prevent, and treat trauma among children and youth in Richland County. As part of these projects, Chauhan has organized several justice-related community forums at the Nickelodeon. She serves on the Board of Every Black Girl, the Board of the Lawyers’ Committee for Children’s Rights, the Governor’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee, and the North America Council for Juvenile Justice and was a 2020 recipient of the Ambassador for Racial Justice scholarship.
The Columbia Film Society is a nonprofit center for independent film that promotes community dialogue by showcasing films that challenge, inspire, and entertain and by providing the tools to make and interpret media. CFS realizes this mission through its two arms, the Nickelodeon Theatre (the Nick), the only independent art house cinema in SC and Indie Grits Labs (IGL), which focuses on the creation of new media artwork, media education and the Indie Grits Film Festival.
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