Ash Lynette is the Director of Development for the Ella Baker Center, a non-profit in Oakland CA dedicated to organizing with Black, Brown, and low-income people to shift resources away from prisons and punishment, and towards opportunities that make our communities safe, healthy, and strong.
Thesis overview
Goal: To understand the ways participatory policy research is being done, and to understand what the possibilities may look like in utilizing restorative frameworks and creative interventions to make the research better, and even healing for participants.
Outcome goal: Research and outcomes that are more effective and democratic
Process goal: Design processes for research that empower and provide healing to the participants.
Vision:
Create processes and methods for restorative research
Shift research beyond participatory towards collective healing
Enhance participatory research through restorative frameworks
Notes:
Stamps campaign- resource organizers inside share things like stamps and folks outside match donations. matching grant of 25k
big restructure happened
more important to tell the story of how they organized
make sure you have something thats just yours
creating space to not be thinking and just doing
taking time to integrate all the things