January 18, 2023 at 1:00 pm Eastern | 12:00 pm Central | 11:00 am Mountain | 10:00 am Pacific (1 hour)
Webinar Faculty: Deepa Iyer, Senior Adviser at Building Movement Project
About the Webinar: Join Deepa Iyer, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Building Movement Project, on January 18th (1pm EST) for an hour-long workshop about strengthening our social change roles and ecosystems. Outcomes include: (a) learning about a new framework developed by Iyer called the Social Change Ecosystem Framework; and (b) applying the framework to increase individual and collective effectiveness and sustainability.
About the Faculty:
Over the course of two decades supporting social movements, Deepa Iyer has played many roles: weaver, frontline responder, storyteller, and guide. Currently, she is the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Building Movement Project where she builds projects, resources, and narratives around transformative solidarity practices. Deepa’s primary areas of expertise include post September 11th policies, civil rights, and Asian American/South Asian histories of community building. Deepa served as executive director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) for a decade after 9/11, and has also held positions at Race Forward, the US Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, and the Asian American Justice Center.
She is the author of two books,We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future(The New Press 2015) about post 9/11 America, andSocial Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection(The Thick Press, 2022) about the social change ecosystem framework that she developed. She also hosts a podcast calledSolidarity Is Thisfeaturing storytellers, disrupters, and builders around the world who are experimenting with solidarity during a time of polarization.
Deepa has received fellowships from Open Society Foundations and the Social Change Initiative, and in 2019, she received an honorary doctoral degree from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She serves on the Advisory Council of the Emergent Fund, which resources grassroots organizing and power building in communities of color.
An immigrant who moved to Kentucky from India when she was twelve, Iyer graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School and Vanderbilt University. More information about Deepa’s work is atwww.socialchangemap.comandwww.buildingmovement.org.
Sponsored by NAPD’s DEIJ & Racial Justice Groups / Open to all
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