MAY 2021
Our new, bi-monthly newsletter!
We're excited to introduce our bi-monthly newsletter. This is our way of staying regularly engaged with you—our alumni and supporters.
This will continue to evolve and we'll ask for your feedback every step of the way. Up first: have you taken our user survey? If not, here's your chance.
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What is Justice? We shared our thoughts on the Derek Chauvin verdict and found ourselves grappling with some tough, but necessary, questions.
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We Got You. Ready to run? Already running? We brought back our public candidate training series last month. Heads up: we’re not done.
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Cassy Jones-McBryde (she/her)
Black Organizing Program Manager with Planned Parenthood of Michigan
Course:
We Will Not Be Muted training series
“I appreciate being in community with people of color and particularly women of color that are able to speak truth to power. I learned not to be afraid to do the things we need to do for our people. I learned a lot of real community building that was missing in this (past) election cycle. We generally operate in transactional ways and it was good to be refocused on connecting with community.”
CASSY JONES-MCBRYDE
re:commendations
READ
Heather McGhee's The Sum of Us uses economic and sociological research to illustrate the deep cost of racism, and analyzes how America arrived at the place we're in: deeply divided and self-destructing.
WATCH
Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist, Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms.
LISTEN
The Ear Hustle podcast brings you into the daily realities of life inside prison, shared by those living it, and stories from the outside, post-incarceration. While the podcast focuses on the Bay Area, the content is universal and relevant to today's society.
FOLLOW
Looking for orgs to follow during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month? Start with these on Instagram:
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Shout out to the sponsors that allow us to keep our training costs accessible!
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