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Mayor's Community Breakfast
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 7:30 - 9:30 a.m.
UMASS Amherst, Mount Ida Campus
Shaw Hall Courtyard
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Newton’s Foundation for Racial, Ethnic and Religious Harmony, also known as “The Harmony Foundation” was founded under Mayor Theodore D. Mann in 1988. 

The Foundation facilitates learning, interaction, understanding and respect across racial, ethnic and religious dimensions within the Newton community, with the purpose of furthering the recognition of our diversity as a continuing and increasing source of community strength. 

The Harmony Foundation oversees two significant community-building events annually — a Martin Luther King Day Celebration and the Theodore D. Mann Newton Mayor’s Community Breakfast. Our event-planning and programming partners each year include the Mayor’s Office, Newton Public Schools, The Newton Interfaith Clergy Association, the Village Bank, FORJ (Families Organizing for Racial Justice), Newton’s Human Rights Commission, the Rotary Club of Newton, and the Newton Theatre Company. 

Donate Directly to the Harmony Foundation (PayPal)

Keynote Address: Joshua S. Levy, Acting United States Attorney

Joshua S. Levy assumed the role of Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts on May 19, 2023

Joshua S. Levy is the Acting United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. On May 19, 2023, Mr. Levy assumed the role as Acting U.S. Attorney after serving as First Assistant U.S. Attorney since his appointment in January 2022. As First Assistant, Mr. Levy supervised approximately 125 federal prosecutors in the office’s Criminal and Civil Divisions as well as the office’s administrative functions.

Mr. Levy has over 30 years of legal experience. Prior to his appointment as First Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Levy was a partner at the global law firm Ropes & Gray for 17 years. For several years he was the co-chair of the firm’s 325-lawyer Litigation and Enforcement practice group and then served as the co-Managing Partner of their Boston office. Mr. Levy was also co-chair of the firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. In his legal practice, Mr. Levy handled white-collar criminal matters and complex civil litigation. In 2022, Mr. Levy was inducted into the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers for his courtroom advocacy. He was also named as one of the Lawyers of the Year by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in 2017 for his work as a criminal defense lawyer.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Levy spent seven years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts prosecuting a wide range of white-collar crimes. Mr. Levy attended Brown University and then graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1992. After law school, Mr. Levy clerked for the Honorable Harold H. Greene with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. 

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