Mijo Lee
Program Director |
Social Justice Fund NW
Mijo has been an activist and organizer in a variety of movements in the Seattle area, including domestic violence advocacy, fair trade, and police accountability movements. At Social Justice Fund NW she has helped to develop and establish Giving Projects, a new model that uses grassroots fundraising and cross-class community building to fund racial justice organizing throughout the Northwest.
Presentations from Facing Race 2012
Race & Class: Why an Intersectional Approach is Critical in Undoing Structural Racism
Although intersectional approaches to movement work are increasingly popular, we often overlook classism while working on structural racism. Social Justice Fund NW and Resource Generation have successfully collaborated on a multiracial cross-class giving circle model, developing strategies and tools to integrate a class lens into racial justice work. Participants will leave this workshop with a foundational analysis of the intersection of race and class, tools and materials for bringing an intersectional race and class lens into existing racial justice work, and critical questions to bring back to their own organizations.
Speakers: Mijo Lee, Nitika Raj