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November 14, 2016
Experts on Protests, Voter Suppression, Immigration, Climate, Reproductive Justice, & Infrastructure
This week WMC SheSource features experts on issues in the news following the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States.
Expert Spotlight
Rinku Sen
Executive Director
Narrative Initiative
For interviews on anti-Trump protests.
To discuss the anti-Trump protests that continue across the nation, we SPOTLIGHT Rinku Sen. Sen is the President and Executive Director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation (who organized Facing Race – the largest multicultural conference in the US, that was held this weekend) and the Publisher of the award-winning news site Colorlines. Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity through research, media, and practice. Sen’s cutting edge book Stir it Up, read widely by community organizers and taught on campuses across the country, theorized a model of community organizing that integrate a political analysis of gender, class, poverty, sexuality, and other issues. Media includes: Huffington Post, The Nation, MSNBC, National Public Radio, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle Tavis Smiley Show, Diane Rehm Show , Utne Reader.
Areas of Expertise:
Activism and advocacy, Immigration, Media and Entertainment, Race and ethnicity, Social justice
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Featured Expert
Tova Wang
Director of Research Projects in Democratic Practice
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
For interviews on voter suppression.
With news of voter suppression laws having prevented hundreds of thousand of voters from casting their vote, we FEATURE Tova Wang. Tova is Senior Democracy Fellow at Demos, a Fellow at The Century Foundation, and a consultant to organizations working to improve democracy around the world, such as the National Democratic Institute and The Carter Center. She is the author of the 2012 book The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans’ Right to Vote (Cornell University Press). Her work focuses primarily on voting rights and increasing political engagement, especially among immigrants, communities of color, ethnic minorities, and the poor. Media includes: The Today Show, Good Morning America, ABC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, C-Span’s Washington Journal, MSNBC, NPR.
Featured Expert
Marisa Franco
Director and Co-Founder
Mijente and Mijente Support Committee
For interviews on immigration.
Donald Trump has promised to immediately deport 2 to 3 million undocumented immigrants and to enact much tougher immigration laws. With experience of life in Arizona under SB1070, we FEATURE Marisa Franco. Marisa is the Director and co-founder of Mijente, a digital and grassroots organizing hub for Latina/o and Chicana/o people. Most recently she led the #Not1More Deportation campaign, recognized in 2014 by the National Organizing Institute as Campaign of the Year and co-authored How We Make Change is Changing, which describes Not1More’s campaign strategy and structure that activated hundreds of organizations across sectors and communities to demand a stop to deportations. Media includes: Politico, CNN, MSNBC, Univision/Al Punto, Washington Post.
Featured Expert
Kim Knowlton
Senior Scientist and Deputy Director, Science Center Program
Natural Resources Defense Council
For interviews on climate change.
Based on his tweet that 'global warming was created by and for the Chinese', many climate advocates are worried about how Donald Trump's presidency may effect climate change. To discuss, we FEATURE Kim Knowlton. Kim Knowlton, Dr.P.H., is a senior scientist with NRDC in New York City. She is also assistant clinical professor of environmental health sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; and chair of the Global Climate Change and Health Topic Committee of the American Public Health Association’s Environment Section. She is co-convening lead author for the human health chapter of the 2013 National Climate Assessment; and was among the researchers who participated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 Fourth Assessment Report. Media includes: NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio, Bloomberg News, Reuters.
Featured Expert
Renee Bracey Sherman
Reproductive Justice Activist & Writer
For interviews on reproductive justice.
On 60 Minutes last night, President-elect Donald Trump confirmed that he will appoint a Supreme Court justice who opposed abortion. To discuss what such an appointment would mean for women across the U.S., we FEATURE Renee Bracey Sherman. Bracey Sherman is an award-winning reproductive justice activist and the author of Saying Abortion Aloud: Research and Recommendations for Public Abortion Storytellers and Organizations. In 2015, she was named one of Planned Parenthood’s 99 Dream Keepers in honor of Black History Month. Bracey Sherman holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from Cornell University and currently sits on the board of NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation. Media includes: BBC, The Guardian, EBONY, Time, Salon, Fusion, The Atlantic, WMC Features.
Featured Expert
Rossana G. D’Antonio
Executive Director | Infrastructure expert, civil engineer, author
NV5
For interviews on infrastructure construction.
Last week, Donald Trump repeated his promise to inject $1 trillion into infrastructure projects over the next 10 years. For analysis on what that might mean for the country, we FEATURE Rossana G. D'Antonio. D’Antonio is an Assistant Deputy Director for Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, the largest department of public works in the nation. Only the second female to achieve the position of Assistant Deputy Director in the history of the Department, Ms. D’Antonio is well aware that she serves as a role model to other female engineers in her organization and in the engineering industry. She is responsible for directing the technical design of all public infrastructure facilities including highway, flood control and bridge structures. Media includes: Pasadena Now 92.3 FM, The Beat radio show, The Women's Eye, Annual Women’s Leadership Conference Series.
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