"Dear Beloved Community: Welcome to the Struggle" with Amanda Florence Garcia Goodenough from Social Responsibility Speaks

This offering extends an open invitation to join (or stay in) the struggle toward realizing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a just and equitable society. While acknowledging the painfully slow progress, setbacks, and renewed barriers, the facilitator will emphasize the need to maintain hope for the joy and liberation that can only be found through building a beloved community. But because hope, while necessary, is not a strategy, participants will be urged to find their place in this critical movement, through engaging in big and small acts of love, and a commitment to hold people and places accountable for doing better.

Facilitated by Amanda Florence Garcia Goodenough from Social Responsibility Speaks.

Amanda Florence Garcia Goodenough (she/her/hers) is a dedicated educator operating from a cultural humility framework to center and elevate historically marginalized voices, promote belongingness and mattering, disrupt structural inequities, and advance intersectional social and racial justice. She is currently the CEO & Founder of Goodenough Consulting and a Team Lead & Partner for Social Responsibility Speaks. Amanda is also a member of the Greater La Crosse Area Diversity Council's (GLADC) Speakers Bureau, an independent contractor/facilitator for the La Crosse Area YWCA Racial Justice workshops, a cultural guide for the Waking Up White Collaborative and Creating a Healthier Multicultural Community initiative, and a board member for The Pump House Regional Arts Center. Amanda was the 2021 recipient of La Crosse’s 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award and the 2010 recipient of the Social Justice Achievement Award for YWCA's Tribute to Outstanding Women, and she previously served as the Director of the Research & Resource Center for Campus Climate at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Leaning on 20 years of professional experience in justice, equity, decolonization, and interconnectedness (JEDI) efforts, Amanda engages in systems-change work and strives to speak truth to power as an act of love and liberation.
 

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