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From Student to Volunteer to Employee
My former colleague, Lia Kaz, started as an intern for Spirit in Action’s project, We the People: Working Together. Lia wrote this blog when she moved on in 2017. It is such a great blog about learning to be an organizer! Thinking of my own experiences that I’ve been writing about, I want to share […]
The Story of my Time at Spirit in Action and the Experiences I will Take with Me – by Lia Kaz
Hi everyone. This is my last blog as Spirit in Action’s North Carolina Community Organizer for the We the People: Working Together program. This fall, I will start at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for my Masters of Social Work. Before I leave I wanted to share with you some things I’ve […]
Holding the Hula Hoop — by Lia Kaz
Tags: civic engagement, Collective Visioning, community organizing, empowerment, Lia Kaz, linda stout, We the People
What can you do with a hula hoop and a bunch of tacos? They were integral components to We the People’s most recent community meeting about education. Dedicated community members opened up real dialogue in plain language about education policy. One community member offered to do research, another offered to help secure food, and everyone […]
Let’s Discuss Healthcare – Community Meeting
Tags: civic engagement, Collective Visioning, community organizing, empowerment, Lia Kaz, linda stout, We the People
We the People: Working Together recently held its first 2017 Monthly Community Meeting – Let’s Discuss Healthcare. In these meetings, we focus on issues that community members identify and develop plans of action. We ground ourselves in real life experiences and build bridges to the policy realm by making research accessible and political leaders reachable. […]
The Joy of Organizing Along the Road to Justice
It is a powerful time to be doing election work. When we ride out to the communities, there is a merging of fear and excitement. We round the unpaved roads through the Blue Ridge Mountains, rural Appalachia full of reminders that there was once a thriving industry here. We pull up to the mobile home […]