STATEMENT: 2020-2021 School Board Nominating Panel
Calling for more students and parents on the School Board Nominating Panel
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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Started in Philly, UrbEd combines community organizing and policy to uplift students, educate communities, and develop coalitions to give students the education they deserve.
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With the role of Co-ED of administration and strategy already filled, we are excited to introduce the new Co-ED of Advocacy, Erin Gill-Wilson. The path to finding someone who could enter our space and through collaboration, create change, took us admittedly longer than expected… but it was beyond worth the wait.
Co-Founder & Advocacy Advisor
For me being an advocate is definitely an active identity. I think it’s a role that’s always apart of you and a lens through which your view the world. But also advocacy isn’t set in stone like there’s only one approach or perspective it’s a fluid changing path. And that’s another reason I’m so grateful for UrbEd where we can be in advocacy in community and continue to push each other and grow.
Director of Communications and Partnerships
Effective advocacy is checking your privilege and making room for the unheard to be heard.
Director of Policy and Research
An effective advocate has to be an eloquent communicator. Language and persuasion are an advocate's bread-and-butter.
Community Organizer
Advocacy is most impactful when everyone is open to learn. This means being able to be both the educator and the student, with pride.
Communications Advisor
Being an advocate is making sure every voice is heard, to make sure I am doing everything I can to uplift students.
Community Organizer
To be an advocate is to have passion and determination for things that matter.
Director of Program Development
Advocacy is at the heart of agency, it’s devoting your time to understanding the issues most important, and adding your contribution to the solutions. To advocate is to understand that we all need each other, and that the cause is worth the lifelong commitment of doing more than what’s expected of you.
Co-Executive Director
It is the most integral part of living, of being a community member, a student, it is to see a need for change in your community and become that change. To bring people together, develop support networks, and to never stop fighting... It is making sure every voice is heard.