Ep 04: Igniting Your Activism!: Part 1

Beautiful Humans: The Social ChangeCast

We have something really special for listeners who are interested in social justice organizing. We have an incredible and beautiful human joining us, Brea Baker. Brea will detail how to take our feelings of frustration and turn it into protest and organizing behavior as a testament to values driven action. Brea Baker currently serves as a Director of Programs for Inspire Justice, a social impact firm founded by Matt McGorry and JLove Calderón. She was recently the Program and Youth Engagement Coordinator at The Gathering for Justice and Executive Assistant to Carmen Perez, Executive Director at The Gathering for Justice. Baker has been involved with youth activism for years as the President of Yale’s Chapter of the NAACP where her focus was juvenile justice through campaigns such as raising the age in CT, mandatory memorandums of understanding in school, and against police brutality in New Haven. Baker began working with the Women’s March, as their youngest national organizer, focusing on partnerships, college mobilization, and logistics. Brea Baker is racial and gender justice activist working locally and nationally towards the liberation of all oppressed people with an emphasis on black people and women. When not organizing, you can find her traveling the world, listening to Beyonce, or manifesting the life her ancestors deserved. Find out more about this Brea by visiting https://www.breabaker.com/ Readings and Show References: Benson, M. Behav. Soc. Iss. (2017) 26: 187. https://doi.org/10.5210/bsi.v26i0.8240 Bosanquet, A., & Rytmeister, C. (2017). A career in activism: A reflective narrative of university governance and unionism. Davis, A (2016). Freedom Is a Constant Struggle. Retrieved from https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/780-freedom-is-a-constant-struggle Fernandes, Ramon & Dittrich, Alexandre. (2018). Expanding the behavior-analytic meanings of “freedom”: the contributions of Israel Goldiamond. Behavior and Social Issues. 27. 4-19. 10.5210/bsi.v27i0.8248. http://www.gatheringforjustice.org/six-principles-of-kingnian-non-violence Skinner, B. F. (1971). Beyond freedom and dignity. New York, NY, US: Knopf/Random House. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beautiful-humans/support