Dear John,
The 2019 I'll Be There Awards are right around the corner and we are so excited to gather with our community and celebrate movement leaders! Take a moment right now to purchase your ticket to DC JWJ's celebration of the year!
Thursday, October 17th
5:30 - 8:00 PM
All Souls Church, 1500 Harvard St NW, Washington, D.C.
➡️ Buy your ticket here ⬅️
This week we also want to feature a few more of our amazing awardees:
Black Swan Academy
Founded in 2013, by Samantha Paige Davis, Black Swan Academy (BSA) is building a pipeline of black youth civic leaders who are committed to improving themselves, as well as the communities in which they lives. BSA fundamentally believes that Black youth are capable of changing the world for the better. The issues of educational inequity, homelessness, community violence, and environmental injustice are only a handful of the many problems that disproportionately affect youth of color. So while these issues cause significant trauma to Black youth, it is their voices that are consistently left out of policy discussions and decision-making, leaving them powerless to advocate for their needs. BSA is committed to fixing this. BSA does this by enhancing youth voice and building youth leadership and youth power, promoting racial equity and advocating and organizing around solutions that create long term systemic change.
Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC) + The DC Tenant Union
The DC Tenant Union is a new citywide membership organization dedicated to building renter power in the nation’s capital. It functions as an umbrella organization, bringing together members of tenant associations in properties across Washington, and is divided into three neighborhood-based chapters: Uptown, Mid-city, and Bridges to East of the River. Early in 2019, a group of tenant association leaders working with the Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC) affordable housing preservation program recognized the need to unite and confront rising rents, slum conditions, and unjust evictions, and in July the union officially launched and elected a citywide organizing committee. Now in the tenant union is working to train tenant leaders, organize unorganized renters, fight for better housing conditions, and advocating for pro-tenant policies in the Wilson Building. LEDC’s mission is to drive the economic and social advancement of low- to moderate- income Latinos and other DC, MD, VA, & PR residents by equipping them with the skills and tools to achieve financial independence and become leaders in their communities.
Look forward to seeing you on the 17th!
In solidarity,
Elizabeth Falcon
Executive Director
DC Jobs With Justice
