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Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection
If you’ve engaged with the social change ecosystem map, don’t miss out on a new workbook from Deepa called Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection.
August 2024 Update: Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection, now published by Skinner House, is available everywhere books are sold.
Social Change Now is a practical guide for those at every stage of their individual and organizational journeys towards justice, equity and solidarity. It introduces an ecosystems framework that includes ten roles that many of us play in service of our social change values. But the book goes further. It contains detailed descriptions and real-world examples, reflection prompts (with room to write responses), and accessible tips that can immediately be put into action. This book is a resource that will accompany individuals and organizations not only in times of crisis, but throughout their lifelong social change journeys to build connected communities and equitable systems in our world. Over the past three years, people and organizations around the world have used the social change ecosystem framework to respond to the pandemic, express solidarity during the uprisings against anti-Black racism, and support multiracial coalitions struggling for reproductive rights, immigrant and refugee protections, and climate justice.
“To engage in social change at this moment in time requires consistent attention, deep reflection, and committed collective action.”
“Given the world we live in right now, more and more people are becoming outraged about injustice. Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection provides an approach that can benefit those who want to turn that outrage into effective and sustainable action. It’s a roadmap for anyone who’s ready to be part of a broader social movement.”
— Mariame Kaba, Founder and Director, Project Nia; Author, We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
“I have found the social change ecosystem map to be so helpful for individuals and organizations to gain clarity about what role they are playing and why. This book is a guide that should be part of the toolbox for anyone seeking to make change at individual, organizational and systems levels to advance equity.”
— Monisha Kapila, Founder and Co-CEO of ProInspire
“As an anti-oppression educator and DEI professional, Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection is an invaluable resource for folxs seeking to shrink the gap between their campuses’ stated commitment to anti-racism and their actions. As a classroom resource, it offers young people wisdom from organizers and advocates on the frontlines of our current social movements. For any educator and professional seeking to help build the anti-oppression capacity of their students, colleagues, or community Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection is an excellent place to start!”
— Jazmin Pichardo, Assistant Director of Diversity Training & Education, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, University of Maryland