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
RESTING IN THE COLLECTIVE
Thursday, June 4, 2026
2pm – 3pm ET / 11am – 12pm PT
In the second installment of the 2026 NOW Webinar series, The Practice of Belonging, we explore the question, how do practices of interconnectedness and interdependence deepen both the feeling and practice of belonging? Alongside featured local leaders, we will learn how lessons from the early care and education field show us what Prentis Hemphill describes as “rest[ing] in the collective” is a necessary strategy for intentional belonging. Through real world examples of this practice – from classroom to state policy – we will examine how practices of recognition, interdependence, and agency create pathways for radical connection and transformative systems change.
Featured speakers include:
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Dorothy Williams, Founder and CEO of Dottie's Family Childcare
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Jovanna Archuleta, Early Childhood Program Director at LANL Foundation
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Moderator: Malkia Singleton Ofori-Agyekum, Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, ParentChild+