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
The Practice of Belonging
Thursday, March 19, 2026
1pm – 2pm ET / 10am – 11am PT
The first installment of the 2026 NOW Webinar series, The Practice of Belonging, explores the question, how do we design systems that cultivate shared humanity, connection, and agency in everyday practice? Through real world examples, we will deepen our understanding on how centering humanity, relationship building, and shared responsibility shape communities where people experience dignity, voice and collective care. Through the lens of birth justice, we will learn from local leaders how practices of shared humanity, connection and agency in this movement advance our collective liberation.
Featured speakers include:
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Stefanie D. Belnavis, Founder and Perinatal Movement Psychotherapist, A Bucket For The Well, LLC
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Tayla Kelly, Doula, Birth Assistant, Birth Justice Fellow
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Moderator: Aditi Subramaniam, Director of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Policy at Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Simultaneous Spanish interpretation services will be available / La interpretación simultánea en español estará disponible.