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A group of Greensboro. healthcare organizers address how the group has maintained a study of treatment disparities for cancer patients for more than 17 years and illustrates how community and institutional organizing have helped to narrow these gaps. Featuring: Terence Muhammad, Christina Yongue, Dr. Sam Cykert, Suzanne Plihcik
Deena Hayes-Greene and Suzanne Plihcik, co-founders of the Racial Equity Institute, share how their work as organizers in Guilford County led to the founding of he institute.
This group of New Orleans based organizers is working to increase racial equity practices by providing training and on-going engagement with multi-sector leaders across New Orleans while supporting development of racial equity practices and policies in their organizations and increasing public awareness through a city-wide equity campaign. Featuring: Shawn Barney, Emily Madero, Andrea Chen, Liza Cowan, Kelli Saulny, Allen Square
This session is a special convening of white community and institutional organizers who have taken responsibility for addressing racial equity in their lives, in their communities and in their work. They will share what it means to be white and the challenges and the rewards of taking on this work. Featuring: Tricia Frye, Suzanne Bundy, Bob Stephens, Lizzie Biddle, Dr. Jennifer Schaal, Amy Burtaine, Bay Love, Malcolm Tye Hunter, Esq, Martin Friedman, Sarah Hutchinson
This episode will feature several members of the Asian Community who have been organizing in their communities to address structural and institutional racism. Guests panelists will talk about how Asians have long been used as a racial wedge between Whites and other groups of color in the U.S. Featuring: Dr. Ari Anand, UW Eau Claire, Monica Kumar, Bentonville, Arkansas, Dr. David Shih, UW Eau Claire, Reiney Lin, Redondo Beach, CA, Dr. Muktha Jost, Greensboro, NCTEXT
This collective of Broward County Administrators and Community Organizers will share with us how their work is leading to a system wide examination and investment in prioritizing racial equity across systems in this region of South Florida. Featuring: Corey Best, Suzanne Bundy, Yaritza Navarro
This group of Asheville City organizers and leaders will share the years of organizing they have engaged in in an effort to address structural and institutional racism in the systems of service in Buncombe County Featuring: Ashley Cooper, Marta Alcala-Williams, Steve Cooperman, Dr. Dan Frayn, Danae Aiche
This group of Cleveland’s Community Leaders will discuss their work of organizing and supporting the development of equitable systems inside of a more equitable city. Featuring: Evelyn Burnett, Third Space Action Lab, Mordecai Cargill, Third Space Action Lab, Treye Johnson, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Linda Warren, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress was unable to attendTEXT
Across the nation, many elders and millennials have found themselves at odds with each other, often standing firmly on very different sides of compelling issues affecting the Black community. Cancel culture of call-out culture describes a form of boycott in which someone is thrust out of social or professional circles – either online on social media, in the real world, or both. It has become a point of contention and a popular practice of young people and often practiced against elders and public officials they oppose. This conversation will center around a discussion of how we organize an intergenerational truce…
Across the nation, many elders and millennials have found themselves at odds with each other, often standing firmly on very different sides of compelling issues affecting the Black community. Cancel culture of call-out culture describes a form of boycott in which someone is thrust out of social or professional circles – either online on social media, in the real world, or both. It has become a point of contention and a popular practice of young people and often practiced against elders and public officials they oppose. This conversation will center around a discussion of how we organize an intergenerational truce…
