Connecting the Dots at Creating Change

Connecting the Dots at Creating Change

Next week, our friends at the National LGBTQ Task Force are holding their annual Creating Change conference, the largest LGBTQ social justice conference in the country. With a mission of advancing LGBTQ liberation, Creating Change is expected to bring 5,000 activists...
Connecting the Dots at Creating Change

2015 in Review: Diverse Elders and the Need for Wisdom

Growing up in an immigrant household, I was raised to respect my elders. Their needs were to be looked after, and their wisdom was to not to be questioned. Often, that came into conflict in our suburban New Jersey community, where American cultural values of...
Connecting the Dots at Creating Change

Diverse Perspectives on The Older Americans Act

A year into working at the Diverse Elders Coalition, I’ve been struck by the learning curve for the range of issues facing the elder constituencies our member organizations serve. I have worked on some of these issues in previous jobs, and I have some experience in...
Connecting the Dots at Creating Change

December 7: A Day that will Live in Many Infamies

As someone with very personal connections to both military servicemembers and the Japanese American community, I hold today, December 7, with a complex set of meanings and experience the gamut of emotions. “I’m feeling all the feels” as they might say these days. The...