VIRTUAL LEARNING LAB ARCHIVE
Creating Pathways for Community Leadership
Thursday, November 19, 2020
3pm – 4pm ET / 12pm – 1pm PT
Harnessing community strengths and assets -- such as existing parent and community leaders -- are critical to building local capacity and scaling up innovative solutions. This session highlights local models for creating sustainable leadership pathways for parents, caregivers, and community stakeholders to not only participate, but also design and implement systems change efforts. Speakers will highlight unsung leadership stories and examples of parent-led efforts to address pressing and emerging community challenges, from improving access to health promoting resources to mitigating natural disasters and COVID-19.
Featured speakers include:
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Allentza Michel, Founder, Powerful Pathways
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Regina Elmi, Executive Director, Supporting Partnerships in Education and Beyond; Parent Leader, Family Leadership Design Collaborative
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Ann Ishimaru, Associate Professor of Education, University of Washington; Co-principal investigator, Family Leadership Design Collaborative;
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Moderator: Ronda Alexander, Director of Operations, Vital Village Network at Boston Medical Center
Simultaneous Spanish interpretation services will be available / La interpretación simultánea en español estará disponible.
VIRTUAL LEARNING LAB ARCHIVE
Centering Ancestral Wisdom through the Hogan Dialogue: Reflections on Community Engagement and Data Sovereignty
Thursday, March 13, 2025
1pm – 2pm ET
Join us for the launch of Vital Village Networks' 2025 NOW webinar series, featuring a dynamic conversation with Roberto Nutlouis (Navajo), Executive Director of Nihikeya and 2024 VVN Community Food Systems Fellow. Through Nihikeya's efforts to center Diné knowledge and traditions to build regenerative ecological, food, and water lifeways, Roberto will share about his work to center ancestral wisdom through community engagement processes using the Hogan Dialogue. Learn more about Roberto's and Nihikeya's reflections, learnings, and actions needed to transform community data processes and systems towards greater data sovereignty and community healing.
Featured speakers include:
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Roberto Nutlouis, Executive Director, Nihikeya
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Moderator: Ronda Alexander, Director of National Partnerships, Vital Village Network
Simultaneous Spanish interpretation services will be available / La interpretación simultánea en español estará disponible.