Do you want to make change? Do you feel like your community is not listened to? YOUR VOICE MATTERS! Join us for a training sponsored by Eastside for All and Muslim Community & Neighborhood Association on how to amplify your voice and advocate for positive change in your community! Using real-world examples from successful housing justice campaigns, presenters will discuss how you can:
- Use your unique voice to make change;
- Develop community-driven policies that meet your community’s needs; and
- Build power to change local and state policy through storytelling, organizing, and civic engagement!
Registration is required. We are offering two dates for this training to accommodate different schedules!
Register here for August 18th 5-7pm
Register here for August 19th 5-7pm
We are excited that each training will end with a special guest panel of East King County elected officials focused on why it is so important for them to hear from community members like you!
About the Presenters:
Debbie Lacy co-founded the Eastside Refugee and Immigrant Coalition in 2002. As a member of the national Welcoming America movement, Debbie supports local municipalities in their efforts to advance equity and inclusion. In 2019, she founded Eastside For All, a racial equity and social justice nonprofit focused on East King County communities. Debbie works to build relationships between community members, advocates, and local elected officials to advance necessary policy changes and create lasting systemic change.
Duaa-Rahemaah Williams is the Statewide Organizer with the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance and manages the Resident Action Project. Duaa-Rahemaah is from the King County area and currently lives in Spokane, WA. Before coming to WLIHA, Duaa-Rahemaah has served as a case manager around housing and homelessness and is an advocate for Housing and Criminal injustice.
Caroline Lopez is the Director of Organizing with the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance and the Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund. Prior to coming to the Housing Alliance, Caroline worked as a program coordinator working to house people experiencing homelessness in Clark County, WA as well as serving survivors of violence and abuse. Her focus is on community liberation through racial justice, transformative leadership development, equity, healing and joy, while centering and uplifting people who have been historically excluded from resources.
John Stovall is the Member Organizer with the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance. Drawing on experience as a housing and homelessness service provider, public policy analyst and advocate for housing as a human right, John has worked on state and local campaigns to further tenant rights, strengthen our homelessness response systems, and increase permanent, safe, accessible and affordable housing in Washington. John believes we will achieve housing justice only if we consistently center those most impacted by housing injustice!