Building Movements Panel Rossy Lima, Xian Barrett, and Tawana Honeycomb Petty, three public educators and community activists, will tell stories of movements across borders. Rossy will share about her immigration experiences in South Texas, Xian will talk about testing resistance in Chicago, and Tawana will present on issues of racial justice and the Black life matters movement in Detroit. Rossy, Xian and Tawana will elaborate on how their work represents movements across borders both in concept and delivery. The presenters will employ multiple genres (poetry, spoken word, story, media) for delivering their message.
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The following questions will help guide the presentations:
What is my work?
Where do I get the courage to do my work?
How do I do this work and with whom?
How is "moving across borders" important to your work?
Why is this work important?
How is "moving across borders" important to your work?
We invite you (conference participants) to reflect on these questions for your own work.
This panel conversation will be followed by Open Space Technology.
What is my work?
Where do I get the courage to do my work?
How do I do this work and with whom?
How is "moving across borders" important to your work?
Why is this work important?
How is "moving across borders" important to your work?
We invite you (conference participants) to reflect on these questions for your own work.
This panel conversation will be followed by Open Space Technology.
Rossy Lima, South Texas
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Xian Barrett, Chicago,ILXian Franzinger Barrett teaches 7th and 8th grade social studies and language arts
in Brighton Park, Chicago. He is a strong supporter of student led social justice movements and was a founding member of #EduColor, UCORE and CORE, a social justice union caucus within the Chicago Teachers Union. He was ranked #5 in the universe for education policy on social media by a completely invalid an unreliable measure. Emiliano A. Guajardo,
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Tawana Honeycomb Petty Detroit, MITawana is a social justice organizer and poet who centers visionary organizing and resistance as an avenue to combat sexism, racism, capitalism, militarism, and extreme materialism in her organizing work. Tawana is committed to social justice and youth advocacy, and is heavily
engaged in transformative visionary organizing on the ground in Detroit. She is a board member of the Jamesand Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, a Data Justice Community Researcher for the Detroit Community Technology Project, a Detroit Equity Action Lab (DEAL) Fellow, a member of Detroiters Resisting Emergency Management, We the People of Detroit, and the The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition. Miguel A. Guajardo,
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