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So often people feel like there is nothing they can do about seeing change in a world of so much injustice. Let’s change that narrative. Here are 4 areas you can actively participate in that are practical. Maybe you can only do 1 or maybe you can do all. The point is... #wecanalldosomething So whether you 1. Call - contact government officials and leaders to demand change 2. Email - Write a letter or sign a petition and use your personalized words that relay your passion. 3. Protest - There is something powerful about getting out to march and rally with others for a cause. 4. Vote - While the Presidential election is important every 4 years, your local elections are monumental in seeing change that effect your personal community. Be it the district attorney, judges, school board, do your research and vote accordingly!

WEBSITE LAUNCHING AUGUST 1st, 2020

wecanalldosomething.org

Instagram  - @wecanall.dosomething

Twitter - @wecanalldo

Facebook - We Can All Something

#wecanalldosomething

Rahim Buford was paroled in 2015 after being caged for 26 consecutive calendar years. A native of Nashville, Rahim has seen and felt how poverty negatively impacts people in the criminal legal system. Arrested at age 18, he spent 26 years of his life caged within seven different prisons across Tennessee. During that time, he completed course work for Lipscomp University, Ohio University, and Vanderbilit Divinty School. Rahim was a co-founder of Salt (Schools for Alternative Learning and Transformation), an inclusive undergraduate program that provides a safe learning space for non-tradtional students at Riverbend Prison. While incarcerated, he also self-published his own book, Save Your Own Life. Upon his release from prison, Rahim received a Presidential Scholarship to American Baptist College, and worked part time as an organizer for Children’s Defense Fund Nashville. In 2017, he founded Unheard Voices Outreach to empower formerly incarcerated persons to be leaders in reentry, community building, and to raise awareness about “felonism.” Rahim graduated from American Baptist College with a bachelor’s degree in Entrepreneurial Leadership in 2019. He now manages the Nashville Community Bail Fund, where he has bailed out over 500 low-income Nashvillians since May 2018. Rahim continues to use his voice to advocate for decarceration and transformative justice.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/UnChained-Destiny

https://www.unheardvoicesoutreach.org/

https://nashvillebailfund.org/

Unheard Voices Outreach

Instagram - @unheardvoicesoutreach

Facebook - Unheard Voice Outreach

Twitter - @outreachvoices

Nashville Community Bail Fund

Instagram - @nashvillebailfund

Facebook - Nashville Community Bail Fund

Twitter - @nashbailfund

Author and memoirist, Nefertiti Austin writes about the erasure of diverse voices in motherhood in Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender and Parenting in America. Her work around this topic has been short-listed for literary awards and appeared in the "Washington Post", “Huffington Post”, MUTHA, “The Establishment”, matermea.com, Essence.com, “Adoptive Families” magazine, PBS SoCal’s “To Foster Change” and PBS Parents. She was the subject of an article on race and adoption in “The Atlantic” and appeared on “HuffPost Live” and “One Bad Mother”, where she shared her journey to adoption as a single Black woman. Nefertiti’s expertise stems from firsthand experience and degrees in U.S. History and African-American Studies. Nefertiti is a former Certified PS-MAPP Trainer, where she co-led classes for participants wanting to attain a license to foster and/or adopt children from foster care system. An alumna of Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and VONA, her first two novels, Eternity and Abandon, helped usher in the Black Romance genre in the mid-1990s.

https://nefertitiaustin.com/

Instagram - @iamnefertitiaustin 

Twitter - @nefertitiaustin

Facebook - Nefertiti N. Austin

Based in Atlanta,  Walker & Associates is a leading firm in the entertainment industry, known for its litigations, music, tv & film legal work as well as business & corporate legal work.  Attorney James L. Walker, Jr. is the main principal of the firm and is admitted to practice throughout CT, GA and Washington, D.C.  He is the author of “This Business of Urban Music” and has been a professor or instructor of classes and workshops at Harvard Law, Yale Law School, UCONN Law School, Howard Law School and many others.  He is often featured on CNN, ABC, ESPN, FOX and BET.  James represents a Who’s Who of the entertainment industry and more information can be found about his work on the firm's website.

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Twitter  - @jameslwalkeresq

Facebook - James L Walker, Jr. Esq

www.walkerandassoc.com

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Gary Clemons started at Friends of the Children - Portland in 2008 as a Friend

to eight boys. He has had multiple roles from Children Selection and Special

Projects Manager to supporting fund raising efforts for the Portland chapter. Later

Gary became Friends of the Children - National's Chief Program Officer where

he facilitated innovation, fidelity, outcomes, and collaboration of the program

model and data across the National network. He also supported the network to

grow from 8 to 15 locations during his time at National by helping raise the seed

capital and building the program model to new cities. His passion for helping

vulnerable youth derived from his own story as a youth who was born in New

Jersey and went to high school in Inglewood, California, that struggled to find his

way but was lucky to be empowered by positive adults. Gary is excited to be

back on the East Coast to lead the New York chapter's efforts to change the way the city addresses

children impacted by the foster care and criminal justice systems by providing preventive long-term

solutions that have results. Gary's past experience includes managing a project at Guide Dogs for the

Blind to expand their donor, employee, and visually-impaired client pool across North America. Gary

graduated from Portland State University, and has multiple Project Management certificates. He is a

Leadership Portland alumnus and continues to be an incredible advocate for Friends of the Children.

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Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/friendsofthechildrenny/

Twitter -  https://twitter.com/FriendsNewYork

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/friendsofthechildrenny/

http://friendsnewyork.org/

https://friendsofthechildren.org/

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L studied fine arts and photography at Kean University in New Jersey partly under the guidance of 2000 Pulitzer Prize photo-journalist Matt Reiney. His world travels are well documented and his work has been published in Complex Magazine & Mantra Magazine. L remains the first and only Forbes Travel Guide Award Winning photographer. He is an advocate for human and animal rights and an unwavering vegetarian. He has been photographing the world around him for over 20 years while teaching yoga and meditation around the globe. L has authored 1 book on yoga mantra, 2 albums for relaxation through sound healing and currently lives in Los Angeles. - Connect with him @thelightrecord - Instagram, Twitter & Facebook

Suzzette Turnbull is an award-winning Author, Speaker, and Founder/CEO of Uncommon

Marketing. Her experience includes a successful 20-year tenure in management, marketing and

branding, and social media marketing. Suzzette specializes in leveraging her social media

expertise and vast experience to help organizations grow their brands. She is the author of The

Ultimate Guide to Understanding and Getting Started with Social Media. Suzzette is currently a

doctoral candidate at Ashford University pursuing Organizational Development and Leadership

with a specialization in Social Media and Technology. Notable clients have included Henry

Fernandez Ministries – a global mega ministry; The Faith Center Ministries – mega ministry in

South Florida; JAVEN – an internationally acclaimed recording artist; and Terrell Fletcher,

former NFL athlete, author and senior pastor. These clients along with countless others have

attributed their online brand recognition and/or their audience’s development to Suzzette Turnbull and her company.

@suzytun - Instagram & Twitter

@Suzzette Turnbull - Facebook

https://linktr.ee/suzyturn

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Entrepreneur, and Author Anim Ameh affectionally calls herself a wannabe interior decorator. It is only fitting since she has designed a career path filled with philanthropy, mentoring, and educating the public-at-large on mental health.

Securing a master’s in social work was a seed that was planted by her supervisor while she was working at the VA, doing outreach, and providing services to veterans. Anim credits the meteoric rise in her field to the keen guidance of her mentors and fellow trailblazers (all women).

She has coined the phrase Therapy Over Silence, which is tied to a social movement that addresses the unique needs of black and brown people in the mental health space. She believes that providing holistic approaches to mental health can effectively treat inner-city communities. Being the daughter of a Haitian and a Cameroon parents, she understands the cultural biases, nuisances, and even the frailties of this underserved and overlooked group. Consequently, she penned a children’s book titled Elijah Was Brave, the first of its kind used to support black and brown families dealing with mental illness.

Elijah Was Brave, but so is its creator who opened her own mental health practice in 2018.  “I wanted to start my own practice to provide culturally sensitive support that was not dictated by insurance companies.”

When she’s not rocking the mic, giving talks on mental health, or carrying out her duties as a board advisor and consultant for a Boston based nonprofit, she’s relaxing on the beach with her family and friends in tow.

https://linktr.ee/animaweh

https://linktr.ee/therapyoversilence

Instagram - @animaweh

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Ted Phaeton is an Anchor/Meteorologist at Fox Carolina. He Co-Anchors the morning newscast Monday through Friday. (Meaning, he wakes up VERY early!) A member of the National Weather Association, he received his NWA Television/Radio Seal of Approval in December of 2016, making him a certified meteorologist with the national organization. Ted is also the host of the “No Rain... No Rainbows” podcast helping listeners overcome adversity in their lives. A passion for growth and mentorship also played a factor in Ted being the founder of The Modern Man, a men’s Networking and Empowerment group, helping men find their true potential and live their best lives. When he’s not dancing and having fun on commercial breaks, he likes to stay active by focusing on his fitness and other outdoor activities. Ted often renders his workouts useless by indulging in the delicious restaurants he comes across. A love of music, fashion and learning keep him motivated and hungry for what the future holds.

Instagram - @therealphaeton4kast

Website - phaeton4kast.com

Shaun King is one of the most followed and shared activists and journalists on the planet. Shaun has

authored an astounding 1,500 articles on topics ranging from police brutality and mass incarceration to

white supremacy and voter suppression. His social good campaigns have raised nearly $40 million for

families in need. Shaun's dogged pursuit of violent white supremacists in Charlottesville have helped to

bring more bigots to justice than the work of the FBI and State Police combined. In the past, Shaun has

been the Senior Justice Writer for the New York Daily News, Social Justice Writer for The Intercept,

Writer-in-Residence at Harvard Law School, and voice of social justice on the legendary Tom Joyner

Morning Show.

Today, Shaun is the CEO of The North Star and is very active in the Real Justice PAC & the Action PAC --

the Political Action Groups that he has co-founded. He is also the host of two podcasts: The Breakdown -

a popular news podcast that provides unique analysis of the news rooted in actionability, and Married to

the Movement - a brand new podcast produced by The North Star that he co-hosts with his wife. And

most recently, Shaun completed his book Make Change which considers the ways social movements can

grow and evolve in this hyper-connected era. Shaun's commitment to reforming the justice system and

making America a more equitable place has brought challenges and triumphs, soaring victories and

crushing defeats. Throughout his wide-ranging activism, Shaun’s commentary remains rooted in both

exhaustive research and abundant passion.

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Theactionpac.com

Realjusticepac.org