People's Think Tank

INTO THE NEW YEAR 🎺: As we head into 2023, we reintroduce our current working mission statement. May we forge ahead with collective strength.

A Look Back at 2024: If you haven't yet read Janeen Comenote's essay, "Becoming Visible: Centering the Native Experience in Solidarity Building," it's available on our website! buff.ly/3W5leQX . #research #intersectional #justice #indigenous

A Look Back at 2024: Don't forget, this essay is available on our site! Give it a read! #solidarity #trans #california #liberation

2025 is here, and so is The People's Think Tank for Education Justice. #solidarity #research #organizing #community

"When we are winning together, that makes us stronger, that makes us healthier, and that makes us well. That's our goal: for us all to be well." #solidarity #intersectional #south #publiceducation #health (3/3)

"When an individual happens to benefit because of something that we've all done, we have to see that through the lens that the world doesn't often show us: that Jonathan's win is my win and Mark's win is my win. (2/3)

"Our work is never to be about us individually but always to be about us collectively." -Dr. Anika Whitfield, a podiatrist, minister, and organizer with Grassroots Arkansas, in "Refusing to Accept the Unacceptable: Organizing with Humility and Love". buff.ly/3W5leQX

The November 2024 PTT Newsletter is out! Have you subscribed yet? Dig in for deeper insights and updates on our events, research, people, and happenings. buff.ly/49qfkwB . #intersectional #solidarity #organizing #edjustice

"To me, intersectional organizing is rooted in African tradition. I understand culture as a people's way of life. There has to be a way that we organize that is reflective of that understanding. That understanding is that we are one."

Jitu Brown, national director of the Journey for Justice Alliance, takes us on his own organizing journey starting in early 90's Chicago. Jitu has been heavily involved in the fight for sustainable community schools. buff.ly/3W5leQX #african #organizing

"I don't think that anyone wrote in their high school yearbook that they wanted to be an activist." Read more about Tanesha Peeples' fight for her community in our latest #intersectionalorganizing essay! buff.ly/3W5leQX #chicago #childjustice #blackyouth

The July 2024 PTT Newsletter is out! Have you subscribed yet? Dig in for deeper insights and updates on our events, research, people, and happenings. buff.ly/49qfkwB . #intersectional #solidarity #organizing #edjustice

Dr. Chioma Oruh's essay, "Revolutionary Mothering and a Family Centered Movement", is now available! "I'm honored to be a part of the disability justice movement. I love being a mother of neurodiverse children. My kids are my strength, not my weakness." buff.ly/3W5leQX

Here's a look at one of the solidarity-building processes found in our research. . #intersectional #organizing #justice

What might be some of these processes? 🤔

More on our preliminary findings about solidarity-building processes. . #intersectionality #liberation

This week, we revisit our preliminary findings from our research on solidarity-buliding and intersectional organizing. This is finding number 5. (Scroll through our feed to see previous findings)! . #research #solidarity #process

#nativeamericans #indigenous #invisibility

On April 2nd, members of the People's Think Tank gathered at Stanford to speak about "the shocking rise in policing in public schools across the country" and the work being done by community leaders in response. Read the writeup here: buff.ly/44czf0S

#FlashbackFriday to our 2022 Steering Committee Retreat. Jonathan, a nationally recognized leader working toward education justice, is currently Executive Director of Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD).