Convening #12 Keeping Community at the Center in the Move to Policy

Objectives & Outcomes

• Learn from Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder of PolicyLink, and Aisha Nyandoro, CEO of Springboard To Opportunities and co-chair of the GICP,  on moving to policy while centering community, the necessity of narrative changes, and what it will take to win

 

Materials

• Radical Imagination, a podcast hosted by Angela Glover Blackwell

• Cash With No Strings Attached: Changing the narrative of Black mothers and the social safety net (W.K. Kellogg Foundation)

 

AGENDA (EST)

1:00 Welcome & Icebreaker

Kathrine Cagat, Mayors for a Guaranteed Income

1:10 Community Spotlight

Harish Patel, Economic Security for Illinois

1:20 Keeping Community at the Center while Moving to Policy

Aisha Nyandoro, Springboard To Opportunities

Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink

2:00 Breakout Groups

Small group conversations to discuss the conversation

2:25 Closing

Madeline Neighly, Economic Security Project