Posts by Roddenberry Foundation
Self-Care Cannot Be a Buzzword – as an Activist, It Has to Be a Way of Life.
Self-Care Cannot Be a Buzzword – as an Activist, It Has to Be a Way of Life. Alia Salem So I am turning 40 this year yet I still feel like I am in my late 20s, but I am also really tired. I have accomplished a lot of meaningful work in my professional…
Read MoreMeet a Fellow: Alia Salem
Meet A Roddenberry Fellow Alia Salem July 12, 2019 Meet Alia, a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow Alia Salem is the Founder and President of FACE (Facing Abuse in Community Environments). Her professional background is in organizational development, community organizing, and communications with a particular focus on the intersections of institutionalized racism and the push towards an…
Read MoreA Green New Deal is Happening Now, at a Local Level
A Green New Deal is Happening Now, at a Local Level Jessica Tovar I have been working to address the problem of environmental racism and fighting pollution in communities of color, the PG&E Hunters Point power plant in San Francisco and the tar sands expansion of Bay Area refineries. The big question has always…
Read MoreMeet a Fellow: Jessica Guadalupe Tovar
Meet A Roddenberry Fellow Jessica Guadalupe Tovar June 25, 2019 Meet Jessica, a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow Jessica Guadalupe Tovar is an organizer for the Local Clean Energy Alliance, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Local Clean Energy Alliance is the Bay Area’s foremost membership organization working at the local, state, and national…
Read More10 Questions with Heejae Lim
Heejae Lim Founder, TalkingPoints Where is home currently? San Francisco What is your Hometown? Seoul/London Tell us more about your project, TalkingPoints! TalkingPoints’ mission is to drive student success in low-income communities by using accessible technology to unlock the potential of family engagement in children’s education. Our multilingual engagement platform connects family members…
Read MoreMeet a Fellow: Heejae Lim
Meet A Roddenberry Fellow Heejae Lim June 20, 2019 Meet Heejae, a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow Heejae is the founder of TalkingPoints, a non-profit with a mission to drive student success—especially in underserved, diverse immigrant communities—by using accessible technology to unlock the potential of family engagement in children’s education. Heejae founded TalkingPoints based on her…
Read MoreOn violence, memory, God, and Karma
On violence, memory, God, and Karma Evan Weissman | June 15, 2019 As “spiritual but not religious” becomes more and more prevalent I think our communities are in desperate need of some more Rites of Passage into adulthood. I’ll trash-talk the negative aspects of religion with the best of them but if my bar…
Read MoreMeet a Fellow: Evan Weissman
Meet A Roddenberry Fellow Evan Weissman June 11, 2019 Meet Evan, a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow Evan is the founding executive director of Warm Cookies of the Revolution, a Civic Health Club that blends innovative arts and culture with crucial civic issues. Evan teaches nonviolence at The Colorado College. He was a Kellogg Foundation Leadership…
Read More2020 Roddenberry Fellowship Webinar
2020 Roddenberry Fellowship Webinar | June 7, 2019 This is a recording from the June 6, 2019 webinar about the Fellowship and the 2020 selection process. The second half of the webinar will includes a live chat for participants to ask questions. If you have further questions about the Fellowship or application process please send…
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