RSSConstance R. Perry (Massachusetts)
Ms. Constance R. Perry, recently retired, had worked for more than thirty years managing, designing and implementing programs for at-risk youth and adults at the municipal, state and national level. She then spent twelve years as a self-employed national consultant specializing in training, facilitation and on-site consultant services for community organizations.
Ms. Perry and her husband, Dain, have been touring the country screening Traces of the Trade. This film is a documentary about her husband's ancestors, the DeWolf family of Rhode Island, who were among the foremost slave-traders in American history. Traces of the Trade has been screened in 17 Episcopal dioceses, as well as at civic organizations and schools and universities. Ms. Perry has done substantial work to organize grassroots action toward racial reconciliation.
As a member of Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston, Ms. Perry has been very active in a number of church and diocesan ministries. She has served on the diocesan Palestinian Committee to witness for Palestinian Christians, as Deanery Representative from Trinity Church, Boston, as Co-Convener of the Boston Harbor Deanery, on the diocesan Diversity Leadership Committee, and on the diocesan standing committee. In addition, she was a delegate to the Massachusetts Diocesan Convention.
Ms. Perry and her husband live in Charlestown, MA.
