F174. Writing for Social Change: Inclusive and Equitable Organizations
Friday, March 29, 2019
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Writing for Social Change shares how writing in community and investing in organizational supports can create more respectful and just communities. In a time of public xenophobia, racism, white supremacy and all phobias that cast humans aside, we will share how writing in community brings us closer to our common humanity. We will also share how investing in equitable and inclusive organizational fundamentals is essential for literary organizations to achieve outcomes and effect social change.
Participants
Moderator:
Elizebett (Liz) Eslinger (MPA, BA English) is Executive Director of Write Around Portland. She elevates underrepresented voices, builds community and creates social change through the power of writing. Liz is a new mom, essayist, poet and editor of Roads Less Traveled and Oregon Ghost Towns series.
Jenny M. Chu is the daughter of immigrant parents from Saigon and Hong Kong, the first of her immediate family to go to college, and the only to graduate. She received her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco, and is the Outreach & Volunteer Manager at Write Around Portland.
