Labor Days
In September 2017, Toys ‘R’ Us, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. By March 2018, the company began liquidating their stores, impacting the lives of all 33,000 employees. While the news was devastating and shocking, bankruptcy due to debt and mismanagement by private equity firms is not new. Kmart and Party City both closed under […]
Organizing as an Adult who Believes in Young People’s Potential, Promise, and Leadership
It is hard to overstate the courageous contributions students and teachers make towards building a functioning multiracial democracy. Notably, it was students who energized national movements like March for Our Lives, Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock/No DAPL, Occupy Wall Street, and more. Eight year-old Mari Copney called national attention to the Flint Water Crisis that […]
One Educators’ Journey Advocating for Racial Justice Leads to Stronger Family Bonds
In June of 1982, Vincent Chin—a Chinese American engineering technician—was out with friends in Detroit celebrating his bachelor party. The night took a terrifying turn after two white autoworkers, Ronald Ebens and his stepson Michael Nitz, chased Chin with a baseball bat and beat him to death. Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz were only fined […]
Imagining Liberation
The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a new, yearlong intensive coaching program supporting full-time movement activists and social justice practitioners to complete books that create deep, durable narrative change, restructuring the way people feel, think, and respond to the world. This interview series features participants in the inaugural cohort. […]
Finding the Freedom to Love Through Faith
While faith is not often considered a hallmark of progressive values, you can be a person of faith and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. As historian Blair Imani noted in her TED Talk, these identities are neither mutually exclusive nor do they need to be reconciled. However, hardline readings of religious texts – be […]
Setting Boundaries in Mission Driven Work
The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a yearlong intensive coaching program supporting full-time movement activists and social justice practitioners to complete books that create deep, durable narrative change, restructuring the way people feel, think, and respond to the world. This interview series features participants in the inaugural cohort. Shannon […]
Creating Systems of Support
Silky Shah is the Executive Director of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition building power to abolish immigration detention in the US. An organizer for more than twenty years, Silky has worked on issues related to immigration detention, the prison industrial complex, and racial and migrant justice. Her book project contends that the prison industrial […]
We Have Always Existed
Emily Ramirez is a queer Dominican woman, born and raised in NYCHA housing in Brooklyn, and is currently contracting with the United Nations as a social media specialist. She holds a Bachelor’s in creative writing and comparative literature, and has published works in Huizache, Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories From Young Female […]
Living with Desire & Bipolar Disorder
Adam Nyang is a Gambian who recently completed her Bachelor’s degree in English Studies. She has always been passionate about storytelling and reading, and recently published a romance novel called Betting on Love under the pen-name Kani Sey with Love Africa Press. Her short story, Faroh, was longlisted for the 2021 K & L Prize. […]
Busting the “Post-Patriarchy” Myth
Ellen Bravo is a long-time activist and author who’s spent decades organizing among low-wage women from a social justice feminist framework. She’s the Co-Founder of Family Values At Work, a network of state coalitions that advocate for paid sick days and paid family medical leave. Previously, Ellen served as the longtime director of 9to5. She’s […]
A Survivor’s Story
The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a new, yearlong intensive coaching program supporting full-time movement activists and social justice practitioners to complete books that create deep, durable narrative change, restructuring the way people feel, think, and respond to the world. This interview series features participants in the inaugural cohort. […]
Organizing: A Love Story
Beth Howard is the Appalachia Organizing Director for Showing Up for Racial Justice where she is directing transformational basebuilding campaigns in her beloved home state. She is from a working class family in rural Eastern Kentucky and has more than 16 years of experience in grassroots community organizing and leadership development. She is committed to […]