Join us for a conversation about systemic change processes with Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia (he/him), and Janvieve Williams Comrie (she/her), a Black and Latina human rights strategist, trainer and organizer with a deep commitment to assist in the building of powerful social movements for racial justice and human rights. Janvieve Williams Comrie is a Black and Latina human rights strategist, trainer and organizer with a deep commitment to assist in the building of powerful social movements for racial justice and human rights. She has worked in a variety of fields and for several human rights institutions, including the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights Regional Office Central America, where she coordinated a regional program on race and racism. Janvieve is internationally recognized for her work with Afrodescendent communities.
Presently Janvieve serves social movements as a strategist, facilitator and strategic planning consultant. She is the founder of the AfroResistance, an organization committed to human rights, racial justice and gender justice in the Americas.
She was awarded a Soros Equality Fellowship (2018-2020). She is a faculty member at New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and at The New School. She is a mother to two amazing children and lives between Panama and the Bronx with her life partner, two children, elderly parents, and her three pets.
Learn more about Janvieve here.
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The emerging field of systems change is largely dominated by white/western/academic practitioners. Systems change initiatives are often led from the center of the existing systems we seek to change. Yet, we know that systems change practitioners are working in diverse contexts, communities, doing systems change under different disciplines, using different languages, frameworks, methodologies and coming from various lineages of thought and practice. It is also clear that we need a strong, diverse and connected field of systems change leaders to address the complexity and scope of the problems of the 21st century.
“On the Edge of Systems Change” Utilizes the Clubhouse application, to illuminate the voices of Systems Change Practitioners committed to centering equity and sharing different ways of knowing and deepening our systems change practices. These conversations center people and perspectives from individuals working “on the edges” of the systems change field. It is an opportunity for candid conversation with time and space for listeners to contribute thoughts via chat and to be “handed the mic,” to ask questions or share reflections. The sessions are recorded and posted on the Illuminate Website.
Launched in 2022, this series is hosted by Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia.