[SPN-Discussion] RELEASE: Billie Jean King and Green Spaces launch GreenTernship Program

[Marissa Feinberg]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:*

*Billie Jean King’s GreenSlam Initiative launches GreenTernship Program to
educate students with “green collar” job training *

New York, NY (August 29, 2009) -- *Billie Jean King’s GreenSlam
Initiative*has launched a green collar internship program and has
selected two New
York-area students for the pilot *GreenSlam/GreenTernship* program.

Gary Brown, a senior at *Harlem** Renaissance High School*, and Contessa
Gayles, a senior at *Columbia University* have been selected as the
program’s inaugural *GreenTerns*. Both Brown and Gayles will receive an
educational stipend and will be working with leading greening professionals
in a program designed in conjunction with *Green Spaces*, a New
York-Colorado based organization that provides green entrepreneurs with
workspace, business services and networking channels, to manage and oversee
project curriculum and the GreenTerns.

 “Our mission is to involve youth, especially those in under
served communities, with green job training and the opportunity to gain
hands-on experience in the eco-sports movement,” Billie Jean King said.
“Environmental justice is a natural extension of my work as a campaigner for
equality.”

Gayles will be studying with Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D., (cofounder of
Terrefuge and Terreform 1, and a member of the Columbia University faculty)
on a bid for the Olympics in the United States with a focus on
sustainability. Brown will be assigned a GreenTernship with the Women’s
Education Project’s *Team WEP*, an international athletic club whose mission
is to raise awareness and funds for women’s higher education and personal
development, through creation of group runs and tours of urban farm
communities in New York City. Gayles will also work directly with Brown as a
student mentor.

According to Green Spaces’ founder, Jennie Nevin, “We are pleased to help
formulate Billie Jean King’s vision and guide student GreenTerns throughout
the academic year. As an organization, we are dedicated to educating and
exposing youth to a variety of diverse environmentally and socially
responsible practices, so this is a perfect fit.”

The GreenSlam/GreenTernship program is made possible thanks to the generous
support of *Green Spaces **(www.greenspaceshome.com)*, *MSI Computer
Corporation* *(http://us.msi.com/WindTop), *the *United States Tennis
Association* (USTA) the, *Billie Jean King World Team Tennis Charities* and
the *Tennis Industry Association* (TIA). Said Vice President of Sales MSI,
U.S. Andy Tung, “MSI is pleased to be a part of the green movement program
and among the growing list of companies that are choosing to operate as
green corporate citizens.”

In 2007, on the first anniversary of the renaming of the national tennis
center as the* USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center,* King, Ilana
Kloss, Pam Derderian and Nancy Becker formed* GreenSlam *to help green the
sports industry, educate fans and to support wider opportunity in the
emerging green economy.

Media Contact: Pam Derderian, 610/306-0807

*About Green Spaces*: Green Spaces is a New York and Colorado based leader
in providing green entrepreneurs with workspace, business services,
workshops, and a networking outreach for thousands of people living and
working in New York. Green Spaces programs are designed to strengthen and
connect emerging green businesses that are working with natural resources to
create a new nature-based economy. Their management of the BJK
GreenSlam/GreenTernship program is designed to help students gain an
understanding of the diverse range of work opportunities and programs in the
field of sustainability, while connecting emerging talent with Green Spaces’
companies and providing NY based high school and college students with paid
internships.

*About MSI Computer Corporation*: Established in 1986 and headquartered in
Taipei Taiwan, MSI strives to design and manufacture superior technology and
innovative products, while offering outstanding customer service. The MSI
portfolio includes Notebook Computers, Mainboards, Graphics Cards, Desktop
Computers and All-in-One PCs. MSI develops all its product lines with the
goals of promoting and empowering the environmental protection movement.  To
learn more about MSI’s complete offering please visit http://us.msi.com.

-- 
Marissa Feinberg
Co-Founder
Green Leaders Global
33 Flatbush Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
917.494.5041
www.greenleadersglobal.org
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