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“La Historia de los movimientos sociales BIPOC en Colorado” fue una serie educativa mensual recurrente en Denver y en línea durante el otoño de 2023. Celesté Martinez, dueña de la firma consultora y de asesoría sobre equidad racial Celestial Alegría, facilitó los eventos. Cada sesión examinó la historia de diferentes movimientos sociales en Colorado liderados por y en los que participaron personas negras, indígenas, latinas u otras personas de color. Esta sesión, del 10 de ago. de 2023, examinó más de cerca los derechos civiles y el partido Panteras Negras.
“La Historia de los movimientos sociales BIPOC en Colorado” fue una serie educativa mensual recurrente en Denver y en línea durante el otoño de 2023. Celesté Martinez, dueña de la firma consultora y de asesoría sobre equidad racial Celestial Alegría, facilitó los eventos. Cada sesión examinó la historia de diferentes movimientos sociales en Colorado liderados por y en los que participaron personas negras, indígenas, latinas u otras personas de color. Esta sesión, del 14 de sept. de 2023, examinó más de cerca los derechos de tierras en el Valle de San Luis.
“La Historia de los movimientos sociales BIPOC en Colorado” fue una serie educativa mensual recurrente en Denver y en línea durante el otoño de 2023. Celesté Martinez, dueña de la firma consultora y de asesoría sobre equidad racial Celestial Alegría, facilitó los eventos. Cada sesión examinó la historia de diferentes movimientos sociales en Colorado liderados por y en los que participaron personas negras, indígenas, latinas u otras personas de color. Esta sesión, del 12 de oct. de 2023, examinó más de cerca el movimiento chicano.
“La Historia de los movimientos sociales BIPOC en Colorado” fue una serie educativa mensual recurrente en Denver y en línea durante el otoño de 2023. Celesté Martinez, dueña de la firma consultora y de asesoría sobre equidad racial Celestial Alegría, facilitó los eventos. Cada sesión examinó la historia de diferentes movimientos sociales en Colorado liderados por y en los que participaron personas negras, indígenas, latinas u otras personas de color. Esta sesión, del 9 de nov. de 2023, examinó más de cerca el movimiento indoamericano.
On Oct. 6, 2021, Sonya Renee Taylor (she, her, hers), founder and radical executive officer of The Body is Not An Apology, delved into an exploration of sizeism and fatphobia as well as patriarchy and sexism, side-by-side with other oppressions and considerations of health and health equity. Taylor shared personal stories as well as key elements from her book The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love to help attendees better understand the concept of the “default body,” disrupting the oppression-based body hierarchy, and embracing radical self-love.
El 6 de octubre de 2021, Sonya Renee Taylor (ella), fundadora y directora ejecutiva radical de El cuerpo no es una disculpa, examinó la exploración del tamañismo y la gordofobia, al igual que el patriarcado y el sexismo, lado a lado con otras opresiones y consideraciones sobre la salud y la equidad en salud. Taylor compartió historias personales y elementos clave de su libro “El cuerpo no es una disculpa: el poder del autoamor radical” (en inglés: The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love) para ayudar a los asistentes a entender mejor el concepto del “cuerpo predeterminado”, cómo interrumpir la jerarquía corporal basada en la opresión y cómo adoptar el autoamor radical.
Sonya Shah (she, her, hers) is a social justice educator who works to seed models of restorative justice and trauma healing in her community and across the United States. In 2016 she initiated the Ahimsa Collective, an organization that works to respond to harm in ways that foster wholeness for everyone. Her experiences as a survivor of child sexual abuse are critical in her analysis and approach to this work.In her talk, Shah will speak about types of sexual harm, their specific connections to sexism and patriarchy, and consider ways to address and heal this harm through restorative, transformative and healing justice.
A monthly recurring education series held in Denver and online during the fall of 2023. The events were facilitated by Celesté Martinez, owner of the racial equity coaching and consulting firm Celestial Alegría. Each session examined the history of different social movements in Colorado involving and led by Black, Indigenous, Latinx and/or other people of color.
A monthly recurring education series held in Denver and online during the fall of 2023. The events were facilitated by Celesté Martinez, owner of the racial equity coaching and consulting firm Celestial Alegría. Each session examined the history of different social movements in Colorado involving and led by Black, Indigenous, Latinx and/or other people of color.
A monthly recurring education series held in Denver and online during the fall of 2023. The events were facilitated by Celesté Martinez, owner of the racial equity coaching and consulting firm Celestial Alegría. Each session examined the history of different social movements in Colorado involving and led by Black, Indigenous, Latinx and/or other people of color.
A monthly recurring education series held in Denver and online during the fall of 2023. The events were facilitated by Celesté Martinez, owner of the racial equity coaching and consulting firm Celestial Alegría. Each session examined the history of different social movements in Colorado involving and led by Black, Indigenous, Latinx and/or other people of color.
El 22 de enero de 2020, Miguel De La Torre, PhD, profesor de ética social y estudios latinos en la Escuela de Teología Iliff en Denver, hizo una presentación sobre el concepto de la esperanza como un fenómeno puramente eurocéntrico y cómo y por qué cree que la desesperanza, como estado mental, es en realidad un método poderoso para inspirar el trabajo centrado en la justicia social. De La Torre compartió historias y ejemplos, desde Cuernavaca, México y la Ciudad de Nueva York, hasta Auschwitz y más allá, para proponer que lo opuesto a la esperanza es la desesperación y que esta se puede usar como combustible para organizarse y actuar, en lugar de aceptar las cosas como son.
On Jan. 22, 2020, Miguel De La Torre, PhD, professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, presented on the concept of hope as a uniquely Eurocentric phenomenon, and how and why he believes that hopelessness, as a state of mind, is actually a powerful method to inspire social-justice work. De La Torre shared stories and examples, from Cuernavaca, Mexico to New York City, to Auschwitz and beyond, to posit that the opposite of hope is desperation—and that this can be used as fuel towards organizing and action, rather than accepting the status quo.
Bishii Maajo 14, 2019, Andrea Cristina Mercado waxay waayo aragnimadeeda 20 ka sanno ee ku saabsan abaabulka dumarka lana saffan bulshooyinka soo haajiray iyo kuwa dakhliga hoose, iyadoo dhaqaajisay wadnaha iyo maskaxda si dib looga fakaro waxa suurtogalka ah. Mercado waa agaasimaha fullinta Inta Badan Floridada_Cusub (New Florida Majority) iyo Maaliyadda Waxbarashada Inta Badan Floridada_Cusub (New Florida Majority Education Fund). Waxay ka hadashay muhiimadda ay leedahay awoodda in la dareemo ka-tirsanaanta kooxaha taageera muhaajiriinta ka badbaaday dagaalka; iyo abaabulka 100 dumar, socodka muhaajiriinta 100 ka mayl, in wax laga baddalo socdaalka. Mercado waxay kaloo dadka la qeybsatay sida beerista dimoqraasiyad laga qeybgalo u dhisi karto buundooyin iyo bulshado laga tirsan yahay, xattaa marka la soo qaado mowduucyada dadka kala fogeeyo iminka.
El 14 de mayo de 2019, Andrea Cristina Mercado compartió sus experiencias obtenidas durante 20 años de organización comunitaria junto con mujeres inmigrantes y de bajos ingresos, e inspirando corazones y mentes para imaginar nuevamente lo que es posible. Mercado es la directora ejecutiva de New Florida Majority y de New Florida Majority Education Fund. Ella habló sobre la importancia y el poder del sentido de pertenencia; sobre grupos de apoyo para inmigrantes sobrevivientes de la violencia; y, acerca de la organización de un peregrinaje de 100 mujeres por 100 millas para promover la reforma migratoria. Mercado también compartió aprendizajes sobre cómo el cultivar una democracia participativa puede construir puentes y comunidades de pertenencia, hasta en relación con algunos de los temas más polémicos de nuestra época.
On May 14, 2019, Andrea Cristina Mercado shared her experiences from 20 years of organizing alongside women in immigrant and low-income communities, and moving hearts and minds to reimagine what is possible. Mercado is executive director of New Florida Majority and the New Florida Majority Education Fund. She discussed the importance and power of having a sense of belonging; support groups for immigrant survivors of violence; and orchestrating a 100-woman, 100-mile pilgrimage for immigration reform. Mercado also shared lessons on how cultivating an engaged democracy can build bridges and construct communities of belonging, even on the most polarizing topics of our time.
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Community members in Parachute and Battlement Mesa, in western Colorado’s Grand Valley, are working together to create a better, thriving place to live. Issues they are collaboratively working on include increasing and improving local economic resources, communication and a sense of unity. The Colorado Trust is supporting these efforts via its Community Partnerships approach; learn more at http://www.coloradotrust.org/strategy/community-partnerships
Colaboraciones comunitarias: Grand Valley, Colorado (subtítulos en inglés/español) Los integrantes de las comunidades de Parachute y Battlement Mesa, en Grand Valley en la zona oeste de Colorado, están trabajando juntos a fin de crear un lugar más próspero para vivir. Su colaboración se enfoca en asuntos que incluyen: aumentar y mejorar los recursos económicos locales, la comunicación y el sentido de unidad. The Colorado Trust está apoyando estos esfuerzos a través de su estrategia de Colaboraciones comunitarias; obtén detalles en http://www.coloradotrust.org/strategy/community-partnerships
El 10 de enero de, Taté Walker (ellxs/de ellxs) dio una presentación sobre la violencia y marginación que sufren lxs mujeres (womxn*, en inglés) indígenxs, principalmente debido a los efectos continuos y crónicos del colonialismo de repoblación. Walker, Lakota y ciudadanx de la tribu Cheyenne River Sioux de Dakota del Sur, es unx activista indígenx y cuentacuentos con multimedios galardonadx. Walker señaló que la tasa de homicidios en EE. UU. de lxs mujeres indígenxs en algunas comunidades tribales es 10 veces más alta que la tasa promedio nacional; que unx de cada tres mujeres indígenxs sufrirán un asalto sexual en su vida; y, que las tasas de violencia doméstica son siete veces más altas entre lxs mujeres indígenxs que entre mujeres de otros grupos demográficos. La presentación de Walker proporcionó el contexto para estas y otras realidades violentas desde perspectivas culturales, históricas, sistémicas y basadas en el género, y ofreció estrategias para demandar y alcanzar la justicia para lxs mujeres indígenxs y sus comunidades.
"Womxn" es una manera intencionada de deletrear la palabra “mujeres” en inglés rechazando el patriarcado en el idioma al eliminar “men” como la raíz de la palabra “women”. También incluye proactivamente a lxs mujeres transgénero, a las personas de género queer/no conforme y a las mujeres cisgénero.
On Jan. 10, 2019, Taté Walker (they/them) presented on the violence and marginalization faced by Indigenous womxn*, primarily due to the ongoing, chronic impacts of settler colonialism. Walker, who is Lakota and a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, is an Indigenous rights activist and award-winning multimedia storyteller. Walker observed that the U.S. murder rate for Indigenous womxn in some tribal communities is 10 times the national average; that one in three Indigenous womxn will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime; and that domestic violence rates are seven times higher for Indigenous womxn than womxn from other demographics. Walker’s presentation provided context to these and other violent realities from cultural, historical, systemic and gender-based viewpoints, and they provided strategies for demanding and achieving justice for Indigenous womxn and their communities.
- "Womxn" is an intentionally used alternative spelling that rejects patriarchy in language by removing "men" as the root of "women"; and that proactively includes transgender womxn, female-assigned genderqueer/gender non-conforming people and cisgender womxn.
El 5 de septiembre de 2018, Niki Okuk de RCO Tires exploró la manera como la opresión sistémica de clase funciona para mantener pobres a las personas y como esto puede tener consecuencias negativas en su salud física y mental. Okuk fundó esta pequeña empresa en 2012 con sede en Compton, California. Durante su presentación, habló sobre los desafíos y obstáculos diarios que sus empleados enfrentan para conseguir vivienda asequible y transporte confiable, para que las fuerzas de seguridad pública los traten justamente y más. Okuk también examinó cómo regresarles los medios de producción a los trabajadores a través de cooperativas comerciales que les pertenezcan para así aumentar la justicia y equidad entre las personas trabajadoras.
On Sept. 5, 2018, The Colorado Trust hosted a Health Equity Learning Series presentation by Niki Okuk, founder of Compton, California-based RCO Tires. The tire recycling company provides stable jobs for Black and Latino residents who struggle to find employment because of past criminal convictions or legal status. Okuk’s talk explored the way systemic class oppression operates to make and keep people poor, and the toll this can take on health and wellness. Learn more at https://www.coloradotrust.org/strategy/health-equity-learning-series.
El 22 de mayo de 2018, la escritora científica, editora y especialista en ética Harriet A. Washington, autora del libro Apartheid médico: la oscura historia de la experimentación en los estadounidenses negros desde tiempos coloniales hasta el presente, dio una presentación sobre las inequidades en salud desde una perspectiva del racismo estructural. Esta perspectiva incluyó temas como los experimentos médicos en la gente de color, la creación de patentes genéticas y otros temas. Washington explicó que, en Estados Unidos, las personas afroamericanas han estado sujetas a experimentos involuntaria y cruelmente durante siglos, y señaló que la ciencia y la medicina se han usado para demonizar a las personas de color y respaldar mitologías racistas que continúan existiendo hasta ahora.
On May 22, 2018, The Colorado Trust hosted a Learning Lunch featuring author and ethicist Harriet A. Washington who detailed the medical profession’s role in the abuse of African-Americans, and suggested reforms. Learn more about the Health Equity Learning Series at http://www.coloradotrust.org/strategy/health-equity-learning-series
On May 4, 2017, Ian Haney López, JD, the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at University of California, Berkeley and author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, presented on how the last 50 years of American political leadership and public policy has been shaped largely via racial pandering, resulting in public policies that reinforce deep-seated inequities in our society. Haney López also stressed that improving social and political equity in the United States will require an inclusive approach, and a more widespread understanding that racist policies and practices towards people of color negatively impact whites as well.
On Feb. 28, 2017, Lydia X. Z. Brown (they/them), past president of TASH New England, chairperson of the Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council and a board member of the Autism Women’s Network, presented on inequities in health services for disabled people with an intersectional focus on race, sexual orientation and gender identity. They also explored potential tools for change, from policy and advocacy actions (e.g., strengthening regulations, trainings, education and building coalitions) to community empowerment (e.g., collecting data and stories, creating safe spaces and providing trainings—especially by disabled people of color, for disabled people of color).
El 17 de septiembre de 2015, el profesor john a. powell, director del Instituto Haas para una sociedad justa e inclusiva en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, habló sobre la racialización estructural, el concepto del "universalismo enfocado" y más durante el evento final de la Serie de aprendizaje sobre la equidad en salud 2015. Más de 200 asistentes llenaron el History Colorado Center en Denver, y cientos otros vieron la presentación de powell en vivo, en línea, por todo el estado y alrededor del país.
On Sept. 17, 2015, professor john a. powell, director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at University of California, Berkeley, discussed structural racialization, the concept of "targeted universalism" and more at the final event in the 2015 Health Equity Learning Series. More than 200 attendees sold out the History Colorado Center in Denver, and hundreds more live-streamed powell's talk online around the state and country.
On Sept. 16, 2016, Deliana Garcia, MA of the Migrant Clinicians Network (Austin, Texas) presented as part of The Colorado Trust’s Health Equity Learning Series. The presentation, “Equity at the Intersection of Poverty, Migration and Health,” focused on the health challenges facing migrant workers and how these issues are related to health equity.
El 23 de julio de 2015, Denise Gonzales, directora de programas para la Con Alma Health Foundation, y Susan Wilger, MPAff, directora de programas del National Center for Frontier Communities, hablaron sobre los desafíos y oportunidades para alcanzar la equidad en salud en comunidades rurales de Nuevo México y la manera en que lo aprendido en programas recientes podría aplicarse en las zonas rurales de Colorado. Más de 100 personas asistieron a esta presentación en el History Colorado Center en Denver, y el evento también se transmitió en vivo por Internet a cientos de personas en eventos remotos en todo el estado.
On July 23, 2015, Denise Gonzales, program director at the Con Alma Health Foundation, and Susan Wilger, MPAff, director of programs at the National Center for Frontier Communities, discussed health equity challenges and opportunities in rural communities of New Mexico, and how lessons learned from recent work can be applied to rural Colorado. More than 100 people attended the presentation at the History Colorado Center in Denver, and the event was also live-streamed to hundreds more at remote viewing parties statewide.
El 5 de Febrero de 2015, Doran Schrantz, Directora Ejecutiva de ISAIAH en Minnesota, habló sobre la organización de la comunidad, el poder político y otros temas en el primer evento del año de las Series de aprendizaje sobre la igualdad en la salud. Más de 100 personas asistieron a la presentación en el History Colorado Center en Denver, y el evento también fue transmitido en vivo por internet a cientos de personas en 27 localidades remotas a través del estado.
On Feb. 5, 2015, Doran Schrantz, Executive Director of ISAIAH in Minnesota, discussed community organizing, political power and other topics at The Trust's first Health Equity Learning Series event of the year. More than 100 people attended the presentation at the History Colorado Center in Denver, and the event was also live-streamed to hundreds more at 27 remote viewing parties across the state.
On Aug. 21, 2014, Laura Frank, President and General Manager of News for Rocky Mountain PBS, and Llewellyn Smith, Director of Media for Production at BlueSpark Collaborative, presented how they have told the story of health disparities through video, print and photos, as well as the importance of sharing compelling health equity stories.
On May 8, 2014, Manuel Pastor, PhD, a Professor of Sociology, American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, presented on how building a social movement can help achieve health equity and how communities can be involved. His presentation included recent success stories and a list of 10 key elements to building an effective social movement, such as the need for scale, a viable economic model and a pragmatic policy package. Dr. Pastor also serves as Director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and co-Director of USC's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration.
On Feb. 26, 2014, Mildred Thompson, Director, PolicyLink Center for Health Equity and Place, presented PolicyLink's plan for creating a more equitable society where everyone can participate and thrive. She discussed how reducing inequality is essential to creating health equity.
On Nov. 15, 2013, The Colorado Trust hosted the fifth Health Equity Learning Series event featuring Anthony Iton, MD, JPD, MPH, Senior Vice President, The California Endowment and Winston Wong, MD, Medical Director, Kaiser Permanente. Drs. Iton and Wong shared their experiences working toward solutions to achieve health equity in communities.
On Sept. 12, 2013, The Colorado Trust hosted a Learning Lunch featuring Elizabeth Myung Sook Krause, ScM, Vice President of Policy and Communications at the Connecticut Health Foundation; Nichole June Maher, MPH, President and CEO from the Northwest Health Foundation in Oregon; and Yanique Redwood, PhD, President and CEO at the Consumer Health Foundation in Washington, DC. The foundation leaders shared their challenges, successes and lessons for communities in Colorado working toward health equity.
On July 25, 2013, The Colorado Trust hosted a Learning Lunch featuring Adewale Troutman, MD, Director, Public Health Practice Program, University of South Florida and President, American Public Health Association. For more than 40 years, Dr. Troutman has studied and worked to advance health equity and to eliminate racism and other social injustices. Founder of the nation's first Center for Health Equity at Metro Louisville Department of Public Health and Wellness, Dr. Troutman is featured in the documentary, "Unnatural Causes; Is Inequality Making Us Sick?".
Dr. Troutman shared insights about how social determinants of health – where people live, learn, work and play – affect health, and what we can do to address these factors.
On June 6, 2013, The Colorado Trust hosted a Learning Lunch featuring Brian Smedley, PhD, MA, a leading national expert on health equity, to share information about how states can address health equity through the Affordable Care Act, as well as other ways through which states and local communities can advance health equity. Dr. Smedley is Vice President and Director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC. The Institute explores disparities in health and develops policy recommendations to advance health equity.
On Jan. 31, 2013, The Colorado Trust hosted a Learning Lunch featuring Paula Braveman, MD, a leading national expert on health equity, as she discussed barriers to achieving optimal health faced by racial and ethnic minorities, low-income and other disadvantaged populations. Dr. Braveman serves as director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health within the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is widely renowned for her efforts to help policy and health leaders better understand and address wide and persistent disparities in health and health care between social groups in the United States and worldwide.
T.R. Reid moderated a discussion with Dr. Braveman following her initial remarks. Reid is well known for his long-time reporting for the Washington Post and NPR commentaries, and author of such works as The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.
On Nov. 10, 2016, Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and Partners in Equity and Inclusion (Minneapolis, Minn.) presented as part of The Colorado Trust’s Health Equity Learning Series. Dr. Hardeman’s presentation, “Racism and Health Inequities,” explored the historical context of structural racism, its role in creating health inequities in the United States, and the importance of naming and recognizing racism in order to mitigate its impact on society and health.