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 Disability Justice in Intergenerational Movement Building
Thursday, November 20, 2025
10am – 11am PT / 1pm – 2pm ET
Join us for the final installment of Vital Village Networks' 2025 NOW webinar series, Rooted in Connection, Rising in Power, to explore the question: How can nurturing our connected roots help build and sustain our collective power? As justice movements draw on ancestral wisdom and historical learning to inform collective actions in our current moment, dynamic perspectives across generations - from youth organizers to elders in the field - are critical to sustainable community power building. In this conversation, we’ll hear from intergenerational leaders around the importance of centering accessibility and disability justice within movement building spaces. Hear their reflections around strategies to ensure full participation and uphold dignity and collective care across generations.
Featured Speakers:
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Fabienne Eliacin, Parent Advocate and Organizer
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Maria Palacios, SinsInvalid and the Crip Solidarity Network
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Moderator: Francisco (aka Pancho) Argüelles, The Praxis Project
Simultaneous Spanish interpretation services will be available / La interpretación simultánea en español estará disponible.