Who are the people in your (RF) neighborhood
This person graduated from UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School where he learned about Critical Race Theory, human rights, and how to make a fuss about inequity. He is a sappy and proud uncle to many children, and looks forward to learning from their art and activism.
rk
This author published two novels later designated as the Parable (or Earthseed) series. The books depict the struggle of the Earthseed community to survive the socioeconomic and political collapse of 21st-century America due to poor environmental stewardship, corporate greed, and the growing gap between the wealthy and the poor
Octavia Butler
This program features movement voices, stories, and strategies for racial justice. Co-hosts Chevon and Hiba give their unique takes on race and pop culture, and uplift narratives of hope, struggle, and joy, as we continue to build the momentum needed to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. Build on your racial justice lens and get inspired to drive action by learning from organizational leaders and community activists.
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
This country an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands that are broadly categorized under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
Philippines
This RF staff is a member and former Co-Chair of the Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY). At GAPIMNY, Dennis grew the organization's leadership, helped launch the Asian Pride Project, and deepened volunteer engagement on issues of race, gender and sexuality. As a result of his work, he was awarded the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance's (NQAPIA) Community Catalyst Award in 2015.
Dennis
This RF staff's dissertation, “Relieving the Toxic Burden?: Race, Hazardous Wastes, and the Politics of the Environmental Justice Movement” examined the distribution of toxic wastes in the state of California from 1989-1999, as well as the corresponding grassroots political activity and participation.
Dom
Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You (2014), was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications.
Celeste Ng
This is a collection of interactive trainings for those who wish to sharpen their skills and strategies to address structural racism and advance racial equity. Unlike “diversity trainings” which primarily focus on interpersonal relations and understanding, these trainings emphasize how to challenge and change institutional racial inequities.
Building Racial Equity Training: Foundations
This country is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 126.2 million on narrow coastal plains. It's capital is the largest urban area and is the most populous metropolitan area in the world with more than 37 million residents.
Japan
She was born and raised in New Delhi, India and moved to the US in 2005 to pursue her doctorate in political science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She cut her teeth in social justice movements for Palestine, nuclear disarmament, actions against US imperialist wars in Afghanistan while in India, and in Asians for Black Lives Matter in Portland.
Shweta
This person served as the Secretary to the Board of Directors for the national organization ‘Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective’ Inc. from 2007-2013. Additionally, she has worked for other community-based organizations including Sadie Nash Leadership Project, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, Casa Atabex Ache and Sprit in Action.
Leslie G.
He is Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart (1958), often considered his masterpiece, is the most widely read book in modern African literature.
Chinua Achebe
In a context of mounting racial tension, Salinas government and community advocates collaborated to bring about a new initiative aimed at addressing the root causes of inequity and division within the city. This report features key successes and lessons from the local leaders who ushered in a new agenda for the City of Salinas: Healing-Informed Governing for Racial Equity.
Building the We: Healing-Informed Governing for Racial Equity in Salinas
This country is in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of more than seventeen thousand islands, including Sumatra, Java, Borneo (Kalimantan), Sulawesi, and New Guinea (Papua). It is the largest island country and the 14th largest country by land area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles). With over 267 million people, it is the world's 4th most populous country as well as the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population.
Indonesia
She served as Executive Director at Voices for Racial Justice, an organization based in Minnesota that works to create a healthy ecosystem of racial justice organizing through training and leadership development, culturally rooted policy tools and research practices, convenings and network building. While at Voices, she was also Director of Research and Policy, leading the work on the Legislative Report Card on Racial Equity, racial equity agendas, community narratives, and other tools that support grassroots organizing.
Vina
Over the years, she has worked with various international and national human rights organizations involved in reproductive justice, women’s empowerment, and popular education grassroots organizing such as the United Nations, The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice and Just Associates. She also serves as the digital media and events coordinator for the #KeepAleFree campaign.
Stephanie Castro
This author's second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), named after the flag of the short-lived nation of Biafra, is set before and during the Nigerian Civil War. It received the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Half of a Yellow Sun has been adapted into a film of the same title directed by Biyi Bandele, starring BAFTA award-winner and Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor and BAFTA winner Thandie Newton, and was released in 2014.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This is a national network of government working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all.
Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE)
The Kingdom of Thailand was formerly know as what?
Siam
She joined Race Forward following a four-year stint with the California State University Bay Area Academy and more than a decade at the California Social Work Education Center. At the Academy, she oversaw development of statewide workforce development initiatives, co-designed cultural humility trainings, helped reform contractor curricula, and advocated for equity for the treatment of mental health issues in the child welfare system.
Leslie Z.
This person attended George Mason University, and previously worked for the Georgia House Democratic Caucus as their Deputy Director of Caucus Services. During her time with the Democratic Party, she worked on and lobbied for government responsibility, economic security, women’s rights, and educational opportunity for all of Georgia’s citizens.
Maria Martinez
In her work, this author explored the Indian-immigrant experience in America. In 2011, she moved to Rome, Italy and has since then published two books of essays, and in 2019, published her first novel in Italian called Dove mi trovo and also compiled, edited and translated the Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories which consists of 40 Italian short stories written by 40 different Italian writers. She has also translated some of her own writings and those of other authors from Italian into English.
Jhumpa Lahiri
This assessment is a guide for workforce development organizations and practitioners to evaluate their programs, operations, and culture in order to identify strength areas and growth opportunities.
Racial Equity Readiness Assessment for Workforce Development
This country shares its land borders with China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares its maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia through the South China Sea.[n 5] Its capital city is Hanoi, while its most populous city and commercial hub is Ho Chi Minh City, also known by its former name of Saigon.
Vietnam
She recently was the lead politics reporter for Blavity Politics, covering criminalization, racial and social justice, and the 2020 presidential campaign trail. She has interviewed prominent political figures such as Cory Booker, Julian Castro, and Andrew Gillum as well as activists such as Patricia Okoumou and MiAngel Cody. She has also written as a freelance journalist for Shondaland, DAME Magazine, Cassius, Woke Brown Fem, and more.
Tracey