Anthony Freddura serves Epsilon as a product owner/lead business systems analyst. In terms of philanthropic interests, Anthony Freddura supports Grace Church in Lexington, Massachusetts. Founded in 1948, this non-denominational church met in members’ homes for several years and eventually expanded into a congregation of 4,000 members spread across Lexington, East Lexington, Watertown, and Wilmington. Grace Church makes a concerted effort to increase the presence of other cultures in its largely Caucasian membership. Today, 30 percent of its members have roots in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Pacific Islands, and the Caribbean. The church’s multicultural and leadership-learning team takes several steps toward promoting diversity and assesses its progress along the way. The team strives discover how cultural groups can contribute to worship and service and identify practices that might be unwelcoming to individuals with different cultural backgrounds. Acting as a liaison with overall church leaders, the team encourages the church’s ministries to identify emerging leaders who are representative of the church congregation’s multicultural makeup. The team also works toward reframing outmoded definitions of leadership. In addition, Grace Church offers language classes for English learners, some worship services have Korean, Spanish, and Mandarin translators.
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AuthorServing as an Information Systems Quality Analyst, Anthony Freddura held responsibility for testing and supporting a client/server transaction processing system. Archives
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