3/ Last month, Dr. @wendyruns & @resilnation premiered their first documentary, "Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation: Cincinnati" to unpack the history of #structuralracism in Black communities and share the narrative on #HowWeHeal:
4/ The #2Gen approach uses a racial & gender lens to ensure health, wellbeing, & equitable access to support children and families. In our "State of the Field" report, learn about Dr. @wendyrun's innovative model on how to put this principle into practice. ascend.aspeninstitute.org/state-of-the-f…
5/ Hear from Dr. @wendyruns about the power of centering equity to build resilient people, families, and a nation and fosters racial healing from @aspeninstitute’s #AFCF21 session: "Truth and Racial Healing." vimeo.com/563434570
#FellowsFriday! Meet Rev. @Vivian_D_Nixon, Writer in Residence, @square1justice,@CUJusticeLab
She brings her authentic self, as a formerly incarcerated woman, to her leadership in racial justice & ensuring that justice-involved women & families have a better future. Read her🧵⬇️.
.@Vivian_D_Nixon shares how racism was infused in her childhood classrooms in glaring but also subtle ways, particularly in her teacher punishing her for using #AAVE language.
She spoke abt this and how we each can play a part in dismantling racism.⏯️
.@Vivian_D_Nixon has been fighting systemic racism playing out in the criminal justice system, edu opportunities, and with personal agency.
#FellowsFriday!
Meet @anthony_barrows,#AscendFellow & managing director, @ideas42, an org using #behavioralscience to help ppl& systems be centered in equity. Anthony asks big Qs abt implicit & explicit bias to drive econ.& social justice.
Read🧵abt his values driving his work.⬇️
What would happen if we designed society to make resources easy for everyone to get?
@anthony_barrows tells his own story & talks abt the uncontrollable life lotteries (birth, looks, etc.) & untapped potential of a world founded on universal deservedness.
⚠️Harmful narratives harm people.
Central to @anthony_barrows & @ideas42's work is changing false poverty narratives to shift support for effective social policies and programs that actually address poverty’s root causes.
#FellowsFriday!
Meet @anthony_barrows,#AscendFellow & managing director,@ideas42, an org using #behavioralscience to help ppl & systems be centered in equity. Anthony asks big Qs abt implicit & explicit bias to drive econ.& social justice.
Read🧵abt his values driving his work.⬇️
What would happen if we designed society to make resources easy for everyone to get?
@anthony_barrows tells his own story & talks abt the uncontrollable life lotteries (birth, looks, etc.) & untapped potential of a world founded on universal deservedness.
⚠️Harmful narratives harm people.
Central to @anthony_barrows & @ideas42's work is changing false poverty narratives to shift support for effective social policies and programs that actually address poverty’s root causes.
It’s #FellowsFriday! Meet Dr. @Joe_Hobot, descendant of the Hunkpapa Band, Lakota Nation, Standing Rock, and President & CEO of American Indian OIC. @AIOIC empowers American Indians w/ workforce training & community advocacy in culturally rich environments. Read more in thread.⬇️
Joe brings great depth to his #leadership using indigenous wisdom, culture, and heritage to inform decisions for a brighter tomorrow.
Hear him provide a #LandAcknowledgement at #AFCF21 to honor the original inhabitants of territories upon which we stand.
@Joe_Hobot's vision: "To create & sustain our own variant of public education for #Indigenous people of the U.S. that restores life-ways of their ancestors, where sovereignty was assured, and where academic & economic disparities simply did not exist." ascend.aspeninstitute.org/2018-ascend-fe…
It’s #FellowsFriday! Meet Ascend Fellow Georgia Mjartan, Exec. Director of @SCFirstSteps, a state agency & nonprofit committed to #2Gen#earlyedu programming that sets SC’s children & families up for success. Read about her leadership & values that drive her work in the thread.⬇️
+1 million SC children & parents, that’s how far @SCFirstSteps reaches.
Georgia explains how this state agency & 501(c)3 works at the community level - centering the voices of families and seeing each child w/ limitless potential - and also at scale. vimeo.com/373203874
🩺 Health concerns
🧑🍼Child care costs & availability
🗓️ Shifting work schedules
COVID-19 has magnified strains felt by #childcare workers & families. See how Georgia, ED of SC’s Early Childhood Advis. Council, took charge to support this vulnerable system. ascend.aspeninstitute.org/child-care-is-…
It’s #FellowsFriday! Meet Ascend Fellow @kwameyaoanku, CEO & Chairman, Black Star Fund, an early-stage innovation fund that invests in Black #TechEntrepreneurs.
Read more about his vision, big ideas, and values that drive his work in the thread. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
By intentionally investing in diverse tech companies (over 50% led by Black women), @kwameyaoanku sees the potential to shift where & how wealth is created and managed to drive equity, economic transformation, and community change. #BLKFounderaspenideas.org/sessions/why-l…@aspenideas
What does solving 100X100 mean to @kwameyaoanku?🧮
His answer equals 100 Black innovation fund managers who manage $100M+ funds. Today, the lack of Black capital mgmt & entrepreneurs perpetuates inequality and reduces local and national economic success. ascend.aspeninstitute.org/transforming-c…