Transformative Talks: Next Webinar on Fri Jun 26
Join us this Friday for "Moving Planning from Colonialism to Liberation"
Building on our recently released reflections and recommendations on Mobility Justice and COVID-19, the Untokening and Pueblo Planning are hosting a series of Transformative Talks to continue to share ideas, uplift community-based narratives and strategies, and create a healing space for BIPOC community leaders, advocates and practitioners engaged in mobility justice.
Planning as a profession has contributed to violence and trauma of BIPOC. Join us Friday, June 26, at noon Pacific for a conversation that will provide space to collectively imagine new methodologies, relationships, strategies, and collective-care as we navigate planning practice during COVID-19 and in support of the uprising for Black liberation and beyond. Co-Facilitated by Annie Mendoza, Yanisa Techagumthorn, Brytanee Brown, and Brooke Staton.
Join us at zoom.us/s/97742743093 or on Facebook live!
Note: We hold space for intimate conversations where we can express, without fear of judgement or retaliation, the challenges we face in our work and navigating mobility spaces. As with all Untokening events, we prioritize participation by BIPOC individuals and actively encourage other advocates who have felt tokenized — including women, members of the LGBTQX communities and people with disabilities — to attend.
Collective Conversation: Community Resilience & COVID-19
Friday, March 27, 2020
3pm ET | 2pm CT | 1pm MT | 12pm PT
Watch the Facebook Live recording
What is our role as mobility justice practitioners and how can we work together to co-develop community resilience?
We hosted this collective conversation space for our network to share what you have been experiencing, as well as strategies for how we can best take care of ourselves and our communities. It is clear that COVID-19 and efforts to mitigate it will have different impacts on different communities. What can we do to disrupt the overburdening of marginalized communities through this pandemic? How do we subvert disaster capitalism with disaster collectivism? What strategies can shift resources while supporting the safety of front-line workers?
View our statement here
Co-Facilitators: Monique G. López (Pueblo Planning) and Dr. Adonia Lugo (The Untokening)
Based on the collective conversation, the facilitators will identify themes for future conversations and the Untokening core organizers will build a statement on mobility justice and the pandemic.
Note: We hold space for intimate conversations where we can express, without fear of judgement or retaliation, the challenges we face in our work and navigating mobility spaces. As with all Untokening events, we prioritize participation by BIPOC individuals and actively encourage other advocates who have felt tokenized — including women, members of the LGBTQX communities and people with disabilities — to attend.
Transformative Talk Webinars: A collaborative virtual space where community experts come together to connect, share, and uplift
As we build our multiracial community around mobility justice, we know how important it is to cultivate professional development, provide support to one another, build power, and collectively change the narrative and practices in mobility spaces. Our monthly Transformative Talks featured invited speakers covering timely topics. See recordings below.
Family T-Time Discussion Groups
We need to hold space for more intimate conversations where we can express, without fear of judgement or retaliation, the challenges we face in our work and navigating mobility spaces. This is what we hope to create through our Transformative Talks Family T-Time discussion groups. Registration for Family T-Times is capped at 25 people, and as with all Untokening events, our registration process prioritizes people of color and actively encourages other advocates who have felt tokenized — including women, members of the LGBTQX communities and people with disabilities — to attend.
Past Events
Transformative Talk: Organizing New Mobility Workers
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
4 pm ET | 3 pm CT | 2 pm MT | 1 pm PT
How are workers organizing to protect and expand their rights in new mobility industries?
Panelists:
Alexandra Carbone, with Rideshare Drivers United, is a ride-hail driver in Los Angeles who is part of a burgeoning movement to get Uber and Lyft to change their policies.
Dolly Winter helped to organize and bring the union, TWU to Citibike in 2015. She also assisted in organizing DC’s Capital Bikeshare with TWU which later won in an election. Dolly has been involved in civic projects with transportation Alternatives and rides regularly on her own despite a near fatal accident.
David Kellman helped lead unionizing the Citibike workforce 2014-2015 and served as the first chief shop steward until he left the company in 2016. Now works for JUMP bikes as a hardware support technician and helps run TWU's Workers Transport, a bicycle services cooperative that currently runs SUNY Stony Brook's bike share.
Transformative Talk: What Is The Untokening?
Transformative Talk: New Mobility & Mobility Justice
Family T-Time: A Resilient Response to Gaslighting
Participants learned how to identify gaslighting, how to respond to it when it happens, and how to be an ally when they see it happening to someone else.
Wed Sep 12 | 4pm ET/ 3pm CT/ 2pm MT/ 1pm PT
Featuring Helen Kim Ho
C0-Facilitated by Adonia Lugo
Our first Family T-Time, A Resilient Response to Gaslighting, was led by Helen Kim Ho, the author of the important and incredibly relevant article, 8 Ways People of Color are Tokenized in Nonprofits. Helen's experience as a first generation Korean immigrant living in the Deep South has informed much of her work. She is an attorney and Founding Partner of HKH Law LLC in Atlanta, where she fights for the rights of workers who have been discriminated against based on their race, national origin, age, disability, and gender. Prior to founding her law practice, Helen dedicated nearly 12 years of her career in the nonprofit sector, culminating in her founding the first civil rights organization dedicated to Asian immigrants and refugees in the South. A sought-out speaker and contributor on issues of racism and diversity in the workplace, she has received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership. Helen’s work has been covered by the New York Times, the New Republic, Democracy Now!, NPR, Huffington Post and more.
