Mutual Aid organizations are increasingly rising to meet community needs, filling the widening gap left in the US by our rapidly unraveling social safety net. Join us to explore how mental health professionals can fit into this vital work, expanding our clinical skills beyond the therapy room into frontline communities.
The Climate Mobilization Project will describe their work at the intersection of mutual aid and climate action - creating survival programs that simultaneously meet people's psychosocial and material needs, organize communities, and fuel movements. Together we will brainstorm how we can align with and support this essential work.
This workshop is hosted by the Community Models and Social Justice Committees. The committees will also be hosting follow up workshops in which members can dive deeper into this emergent work and support each other in developing strategies to take our skills outside the clinical office and into the community. Dates TBA, coming soon!
Meet the hosts
Mariyah Jahangiri (she / her) is a first-generation Pakistani farmer and climate justice organizer that has spent the past 8 years leading successful campaigns for Just Transition, food sovereignty, housing justice, immigrant justice, and tenant organizing workers’ organizing – as well as being involved mutual aid projects – across more than 15 localities and with more than 20 social justice organizations across the country.
Currently, as the Co-Leader at Climate Mobilization Project (CMP) and Co-Founder of Dogbane Movement Hub – her current focus areas are facilitating national and local community education programs and trainings focused on building pathways for disaster resilience and food, land, energy, & water sovereignty for BIPOC and youth-led mutual aid and social justice organizations. Through this work, she currently intensively supports and facilitates educational trainings for various climate justice organizations, mutual aid groups, solidarity economy projects, and regenerative and BIPOC farmers across the country.
Rebecca Harris is Resource Organizing Director and Co-Leader at Climate Mobilization Project. She first began organizing against militarism at age 16. After years of organizing for economic justice and housing rights, she joined Climate Mobilization Project in 2018 as a volunteer campaign coach. After joining the staff, she coached dozens of local climate groups, launched the campaign for a national Climate Emergency Declaration, and collaborated with Acton, MA residents to launch Housing and Climate Justice for Acton, a renters rights and climate justice group led by public housing and Section 8 renters and other low-income residents that won several campaigns in its first two years. Rebecca previously worked as Development and Communications Manager at Latino Union of Chicago, an immigrants’ and workers’ rights organization.
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Speaker portions of the event will be recorded. No breakout rooms will be recorded. Ticketholders will receive the recording within 48 business hours of the event ending via email.
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