Social Justice Origin Stories

    Social Justice Origin Stories is a storytelling project that highlights personal stories and defining moments that have inspired individuals and organizations to labor for equity and social justice. Through truth-telling: the honest sharing of their experiences, storytellers teach us about themselves, enabling us to learn about ourselves and our world through their stories. By reconnecting with pivotal moments of activation in their lives, they invite us to do the same. At Social Justice Origin Stories, we believe that there's power in storytelling and that lived experience is experience. There's room enough for all of us to do this work. There...

  • Looking The Beast In The Face: Unlearning to Relearn with Yusef Bunchy Shakur

  • Shifting Organizational Culture: Trauma-Informed, Identity-Conscious Supervision with Chelsea Pratt

  • Unpacking the Box of Shame with Arc Telos Saint Amour

  • Holding Space: The Transformative Power of Being Witnessed and Supported with Leticia Peguero

  • Visibility, Power, and Centering Queer Black Stories with Monique Alicia Gamble

  • Working in Cooperation and Opposition for the Greater Good with Courtney Holland

  • The Experiences of Black Chief Diversity Officers at Predominantly White Institutions with O'Juan Edwards

  • Rooted in Baltimore: Navigating Social Injustice with Barre Jones

  • From Isolation to Advocacy: Confronting Color Evasiveness in Transracial Adoption with JaeRan Kim

  • Facilitating Change: Education Justice and Unharmonius Organizing with kyle lim

  • Weaving Past, Present, and Future: Healing Timelines with Jouapag Lee

  • Student Solidarity as Praxis: Popular Education in Action with Tony Nelson

  • Making Race Heard with Surabhi Pandit

  • Redefining Design for Social Change with Kyahdric Moses

  • Education as the Practice of Freedom: with Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury

  • Resisting Oppression by Building Trust and Connection with Amber Banks

  • Founding Beliefs, Assumptions, and Aspirations

  • Social Justice Origin Stories: Connecting People Across Experiences, Sharing Stories That Inspire Action. Every Journey Has a Beginning. What's Yours?

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