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Join us on August 18 at 7pm ET Indivisibles,
Join us for the next installment of our Solidarity In Action speaker series on Monday, August 18 with special guest Cristina Jiménez.
We can’t do this work alone; it takes a village to move mountains, but how do you create that village? Cristina Jiménez is an expert in building, managing, and sustaining effective coalitions. Bringing her whole self to the work, Cristina’s journey from undocumented newcomer to Co-Founder and former Executive Director of United We Dream (the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the country) is a testimony to what we can do when we learn how to work together to effect change. This session will focus on what it means to build and sustain the partnerships we need in order to fight back against authoritarianism.
To get a head start on this event, you can read Cristina’s story in her book Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change.
Dreaming of Home is a coming-of-age story for both a young woman finding her true self and a social movement of immigrant youth trailblazers who inspired the world and changed the lives of millions.
Cristina Jiménez’s family fought to stay afloat as Ecuador fell into a political and economic crisis. When she was thirteen, her family came to the US seeking a better life, landing in an overcrowded one-bedroom apartment in Queens, New York. She lived in fear of deportation and ashamed of being undocumented, but eventually, Cristina discovered she was not alone. She made it into college when students and advocates won a change in the law, allowing undocumented students to access higher education. She was proud to be the first one in her family to go to college, but she felt out of place until she met professors and student activists who opened a new world where she found her calling within a community of social justice organizers.
With deep candor and humor, Cristina shows us what it’s like to grow up undocumented and the reality that being a “good” immigrant doesn’t shield you from systemic racism, danger -- or even the confusion of falling in love. She invites us to acknowledge the America that never was and to imagine the America that could be when everyday people come together, build power, and fight for change, even when the world around us seems to be crumbling.
Advancing Our Values -- Solidarity in Action Training Series
Monday will be the third installment in our speaker series bringing together Indivisibles from across the country to learn from experts on systemic change and allyship. Authoritarianism succeeds when it targets vulnerable populations and everyone turns aside. We will not look away. With this speaker series, we’re going to learn how to better support impacted communities from experts in the field.
Here’s a preview of some of what’s to come:
Every day, it becomes more urgent for us to build the sort of wide-ranging community and coalitions that keep people safe. Power is a numbers game. If we can join together, there is nothing we can’t accomplish and no one we can’t keep safe. Join our Solidarity in Action speaker series for Building Partnerships and Coalitions with Cristina Jiménez Monday, August 18 to learn how.
In solidarity,
Indivisible Team
P.S. Once we have learned about Cristina’s vision for building coalitions, we have to process that vision and make a plan for how we can take that knowledge and implement it in our daily work. Join our Building Coalitions Learning Lab on Monday, August 25 at 7pm ET/4pm PT for an interactive training on how we’ll form and sustain community-rooted partnerships in our own work.
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