How are we Catalyzing Community Level Action across the country?
How are we Catalyzing Community Level Action across the country?
The Annie E. Casey Foundation hosted a race conversation at their monthly staff development session. The Casey Foundation has leveraged their Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Portfolio as well as their leadership resources to design the session. Barbara Squires, Director of Leadership Development said, “It was really well received and left folks wanting more, which is really good.”
Elliott Gimble (KNFP-14), a science teacher at Lexington High School, is bringing a better understanding of race as a social construct to his biology classes. Using a video called Race: Power of an Illusion (available in KFLA’s collection of toolkits and resources) he and his sophomore students are “debunking the myth that there is a biological/genetic connection to what we call ‘races’ in this country” while also addressing the real impacts of the construct of race. Elliott and his colleagues are also taking some of their classes to the Museum of Science for a traveling exhibition on race organized by the American Anthropological Association.
Artist and teacher Meleanna Meyer (APAWLI) is organizing Hui Ho’oku’ikahi: A Unification gathering of interested organization and persons living in Hawaii who are committed to social justice for Hawaiians. At this meeting groups are invited to share what they have been doing in this arena, both in the Hawaiian Islands and abroad.
How will you Catalyze Action in your Community?