Racial & Social Justice

May RSJ Spotlight

May 23, 2023

Categories: Advocacy, Community, Education and Training, Get Involved, Impact, Spokane Resources

| Tags: Advocacy, APIC Spokane, Coalition of Color, equity, Lands Council, Muslims for Community Action, Racial & Social Justice, resources, rsj, RSJ Spotlight, Spokane Low Income Housing Consortium, Spotlight

Racial & Social Justice Spotlight Series Each month, our Equity Coordinator, Lara, sits down with an organization or individual in our community to spotlight the work they do to create real and lasting change for a more equitable Spokane. 45 min. listen May Spotlight Naghmana Sherazi, Community Outreach & Advocacy Organizer, APIC Spokane Naghmana Sherazi …

April RSJ Spotlight

May 4, 2023

| By Lara Estaris

Categories: Advocacy, Community, Get Involved, Impact

| Tags: art, equity, mixed media art, Racial & Social Justice, resources, rsj, RSJ Spotlight, Spotlight

Racial & Social Justice Spotlight Series Each month, our Equity Coordinator, Lara, sits down with an organization or individual in our community to spotlight the work they do to create real and lasting change for a more equitable Spokane. 2 min. read April Spotlight Tracy Poindexter-Canton Way back during the lockdown in March of 2020, …

2023 Equity For All – Recap

May 2, 2023

| By Lara Estaris

Categories: Advocacy, Community, Education and Training, Events, Get Involved, Impact, Other

| Tags: equity, Equity For All, event, mental health resources, Racial & Social Justice, rsj, Spokane

2023 Equity for all recap Thank you to everyone who joined us for YWCA Spokane’s annual courageous conversation. Last Friday, April 28th, we hosted this year’s Equity For All event at the Woman’s Club of Spokane with a panel discussion led by key experts in the mental health field. Participants had the option of joining …

YWCA Spokane Rebrands Annual Campaign & Event

April 13, 2023

| By Lara Estaris

Categories: Community, Events

| Tags: #ujji, #ywcaequitychallenge, community, Community Engagement, equity challenge, Racial & Social Justice, racial and social justice, racial justice, rsj

At YWCA Spokane, we have the privilege to invite and inspire activism and engagement toward a world of true equity for all — and we have a responsibility to ensure that is reflected in the names we use. Names are important. Names have the power to invite or to exclude, to inspire or to disempower. …

March RSJ Spotlight

March 1, 2023

| By Lara Estaris

Categories: Advocacy, Community, Get Involved, Impact, Spokane Resources

| Tags: equity, generational wealth, home ownership, Latrice Williams, Learning Community, Racial & Social Justice, real estate, real estate brokering, resources, rsj, RSJ Spotlight, Spotlight, Williams Homegirl Sells

Image of a Black woman with long wavy hair, wearing a black hat and tan blazer with text that reads, "Sometimes we're remiss when we don't think about the youth that are our future. They're the future. So if we teach them when they're young enough to be able to retain, to be able to sustain knowledge, then we have changed the world. And that's what our goal is."

Racial & Social Justice Spotlight Series Each month, our Equity Coordinator, Lara, sits down with an organization or individual in our community to spotlight the work they do to create real and lasting change for a more equitable Spokane. 45 min. listen March Spotlight Latrice Williams and Williams Homegirl Sells at Vision Properties It is …