Illuminate
Powered by Melanin MeetUps, Illuminate is a dynamic Ted-Talk-like series featuring leading Black luminaries, visionaries, professionals, and changemakers tackling society's most pressing challenges. Hear powerful stories and innovative ideas from established and emerging voices across all industries, addressing imaginative and solution-based ideas from climate change, mental health, entertainment, social justice and more. Illuminate aims to unlock human potential and forge a new path of enlightenment. Download now to be inspired and enlightened.
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How trauma-informed services help voter turn out | Park Cannon
What happens when you're othered by a racist ad campaign or forced to vote in line during a pandemic? Georgia State Representative Park Cannon explores these questions in her Illuminate talk, connecting trauma with recent voting suppression initiatives in Georgia. She argues for trauma-informed services to help communities heal from state-level abuses and to move beyond toxic patterns. (2021)
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