ORGANIZING EFFORTS

Afro-Eco 

Founded in 2004, it played a role in organizing the first conference nationally on Black Environmental Thought and Practice. Presented at numerous conferences, including the 2007 United States Social Forum. Contributing a chapter, with Dr. Rose Brewer, on Black Environmental Thought and Practice that offers perspectives on movement building within the US and internationally. I am working with 3 other activists to prepare an article for the Political Economy of World Systems Journal this year. AfroEco is fund raising for the Black Environmental Thought and Practice Conference to occur at the University of MN in September 20-23, 2012 - stay tuned for details! I am working with one other consultant to get out a number of grants by the end of 2011 to support our work in 2012- including the first ever BET Summer, which will be a Twin Cities version of Detroit Summer!

We are developing a strategic plan to help the Pan African community in the Twin Cities to be food secure by 2020.

Co-Motion Cooperative 

Founded in 2007 to work towards embodiment in social change through an emerging field of Social-Somatics.

Full Circle Community Institute 

Co-founded in 1995, and currently co-lead an initiative to promote both healing and organizing among cultural communities impacted by disparities in out of home placement in one county. Parents are scripting cultural policy theater that helps the county understand how their practices of structural racism and cultural misunderstanding create the negative outcomes. We are doing a strategic planning process for Full Circle in 2011 and designing strategies to support national and international work for the organization in 2012.

Grassroots Public Policy Institute 

co-founded GPPI in 2003 to organize the black community around its policy agenda in the Twin Cities metropolitan region of Minnesota. This group is now seeking national and international work.

 

 

CONSULTING PROJECTS

Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative 

Partnership with RDP Consulting to provide evaluation and technical assistance to a network of community colleges serving as intermediaries in partnerships designed to close opportunity gaps.

Clearway 

Partnership with African and African American Tobacco Education Network (MAAATEN) to support a recently emerged collaborative of african immigrant communities - intending to reduce the harm of commercial tobacco use. 

 

Full Circle

Strategic planning process for the Equity in Employment Action Team under the auspices of the Minneapolis Employment and Training Program.

 

 

CONSULTING PROJECTS 2009-2010

Full Circle

Public Private Ventures

National Gender and Equity Campaign

Clearway MN

Twin Cities local Initiatives Support Corporation