“[Just Communities] has inspired me in my teaching. I am always incorporating things that I learned from all of you. The experience for me was so enlightening and the growth that I feel each day is tremendous. It is like walking through the world with a fine sheer of linen over your eyes one day, and having it lifted the next. The clarity and awareness is remarkable. I can never thank you enough for allowing me to be a part of the experience.”
~ Amy Wolfslau, Teacher, Dos Pueblos High School |
“Just Communities’ programs are a huge step in the process to making the central coast a stronger, more aware community. If I had my way, I would pursue California legislature to add a bill pertaining to the imminent need for all youth to go through their program. My overall experience with their programs has been incredible, and has truly helped me become a stronger, more independent individual.”
~ Harrison Nalevansky, Student Dos Pueblos High School |
“The most compelling thing I can say about Just Communities is that it changed my life. More than just a one time event, Just Communities has given me a space to learn leadership skills, meet spectacular and passionate people, struggle with my understanding of myself, and to work with others to create the world of our imaginations—one defined by justice.”
~ Vanessa Prell, 2005 |
“This was the single best professional development experience of my career.”
~ Christina Bath, School Counselor |
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SAFE SCHOOLS
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“We received the tools to begin to make a real change!”
~ Safe School Participant |
“This should be a requirement for all schools.”
~ Safe School Participant |
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CommUnity LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
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“It feels like I’ve come to a whole new level of enlightenment. I feel like before I came, I had already been passionate about social justice issues, but now there are things to change.”
~ CommUnity Leadership Institute Graduate |
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INSTITUTE FOR EQUITY IN EDUCATION
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“One of the only life-changing professional experiences I have ever encountered.”
~ Institute for Equity in Education Graduate |
“Powerful, necessary, thought provoking. Life changing on how it opens up your eyes to the oppression in our school system.”
~ Institute for Equity in Education Graduate |
“Handouts/concepts/delivery were outstanding and based on sound research and scholarship.”
~ Institute for Equity in Education Graduate |
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BEYOND NAMES & NUMBERS: BUILDING A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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“It was also a humbling reminder of the work we have yet to do on our boards and in our community with regards to diversity and inclusion! It's one thing to talk the talk, it's another thing to walk the walk!”
~Amanda de Lucia, Board Member, Pacific Pride Foundation |
“The workshop was invaluable in providing me with new tools to not only look at how our commission is and is not diverse, but to look at the unconscious filters I have that may limit my ability to include others when that is my desire.”
~Arlene Stepputat, Santa Barbara Human Relations Commission |
