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Articles by Isabelle Moses
Naming What We Do Want
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Generosity Fuels Innovation and Evolution
Nia Michaela! I’m so glad you found us okay! Welcome. What do you think? Michaela I think it’s amazing. I’ve never been on a film set before. Darren You haven’t? Well, then I have to give you the tour. Sasha, this is Michaela. She’s our newest production assistant. Michaela, this is Sasha Sobel. Michaela Of course, hi! I love your work. It’s such an honor to meet you. Sasha Pleasure’s all mine. I’m so glad you’ll be joining us. Nia Let me introduce you to our lighting designer, Darren.
What It Looks Like to Build a Pro-Black Organization
Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. Editors’ note: This article is from the Spring 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “Going Pro-Black: What Would a Pro-Black Sector Sound, Look, Taste, and Feel Like?” Amilcar Cabral, Pan African leader of the Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde national independence struggle, wrote and spoke extensively about the need to fight for tangible, material changes for our communities.
Pro-Black is Pro-Everybody: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Isabelle Moses
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A Journey from White Space to Pro-Black Space
How do you infuse racial and gender equity throughout organizational culture and practice? How do you make it a shared responsibility rather than one person’s job? Not unique to my job or my organization, these are questions that I wrestle with every day. For nearly five years, I have worked at Faith in Action, the nation’s largest faith-based, grassroots community-organizing network.
Decriminalizing Abortion: Women of Color Continue to Lead the Fight for Reproductive Justice
Photo by Tess WB on Unsplash On April 7, 2022, Lizelle Herrera, a 26-year-old mother of two, was arrested and charged with murder in Rio Grande City, Texas for having a miscarriage. Why? While miscarrying, Herrera disclosed information to hospital staff that made them believe she had induced her own abortion. Staff later reported this information to county police. A grand jury indicted Herrera for allegedly causing “the death of an individual,” and her bail was set at $500,000.
"Going Pro-Black: What Would a Pro-Black Sector Sound, Look, Taste and Feel Like?" - Non Profit News
“New Era” by Carlos Gamez de Francisco/www.carlosgamezdefrancisco.com Dear NPQ Reader, The spring 2022 edition of Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine is on it’s way! At the end of 2021, NPQ convened an advisory committee on racial justice and asked the question: What is the edge of current racial justice work? The group converged around “building pro-Black organizations,” and the spring edition topic came into being.
Moving Beyond the Churn
Isabelle Moses: “I was hired at Faith in Action…in large part because there was a lot of turnover of Black women staff in the network, and on national staff. And people started to ask the question, ‘What is going on?’ I do think it kind of stems from this movement that organizations go through from on the spectrum.You start with diversity: we want more representation, we want more people who look like the people we work with every day in our organization. So you hire folks.
Building Pro-Black Organizations
Liz Derias-Tyehimba: “What does power mean to Black people? If we are not fundamentally talking about power, Cyndi, we’re not building Pro-Blackness. Because we’re not interested in a cosmetic approach to building Pro-Blackness.
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