WIN Network Makes Huge Gains In Fight For Racial, Economic, and Civic Justice

Oct 18, 2022

Celebrities, Communities and Prominent Speakers to Highlight Equitable Change during WIN Week 2022

PELHAM, N.H. - Oct. 18, 2022 - PRLog -- The leading national organization–Well-Being In the Nation Network (WIN) – is hosting an interactive and engaging virtual series of free events October 24 - 28, 2022 themed, "How Might We Sharpen Movement Strategy For Lasting Change?" Discussions will focus on innovative strategies to address racial justice, an equitable well-being economy, and the right to voice and vote for everyone.

WIN Week will feature the nation's foremost social justice change and thought leaders across sectors committed to advancing intergenerational health and well-being and equity across the nation. To address these unprecedented challenges, WIN Week's design is rooted in community, building non-traditional bridges, and changing the narrative, system, and structures to advance intergenerational well-being and equity.

"WIN Week's underpinning is that to achieve lasting change, we first have to grapple with the painful legacies of the past that inform our current beliefs and reality.  On the foundation of that shared analysis, we can create pathways for a more just future built on mutual abundance" said Somava Saha, founder of Well-being and Equity (WE) in the World and executive lead of the WIN Network.

All WIN members commit to dismantling oppressive policies of structural racism and other inequities. "We see this as a precondition to building pathways for a more just, equitable, and inclusive society in which everyone can participate, prosper, reach their full potential, and contribute to that of others" noted Abeni Bloodworth, co-founder and chief executive officer, chromatic black™ which serves on the Core Implementation Team of the WIN Network.

Register for WIN Week to learn more about the schedule of activities.  Prominent Speakers and Celebrities Include:

Tuesday, October 25  from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST| Equitable Economies Panel:
Discussion: Growing and building power in the movement for a more equitable well-being economy


Wednesday, October 26 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST | Data For Equity & Power Panel:
Discussion: Learn how changemakers use  measurement in creative ways to improve equitable well-being
  • Dawn Hunter, director southeastern regional office, Network for Public Health Law
  • Karen Moseley, president, Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO)
  • Ramandeep Josen, stantec asset management specialist

Thursday, October 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. EST | WIN Network Hope Exchange - Storytelling Session
  • Learn from other WIN members through storytelling

Thursday, October 27 from 3-5PM EST| Action Lab!  The Right to Vote and Voice
  • Explore how communities have experienced disenfranchisement over hundreds of years
  • Develop an action plan to assure the right to voice and vote for everyone

Thursday, October 27 from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. EST| The Life & Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer

Marking the 105th anniversary of Mrs. Hamer's birth—brings together a panel  to honor the life and work of this extraordinary leader and delve into today's civil and human rights issues.
  • Aunjanue Ellis, Academy Award-Nominated Actress
  • Abeni Bloodworth (https://www.levelforward.co/partners/abeni-bloodworth), writer, artist-activist, and co-founder of chromatic black™ (https://chromaticblack.org/)
  • Malikah Berry Rogers (https://www.moneymakingconversations.com/malikah-berry-rogers-latosha-brown/), executive director, Southern Black Girls and Women's Consortium
  • Lotosha Brown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTosha_Brown), community organizer, political strategist, co-founder Black Voters Matter

Friday, October 28 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST | WIN Network Early Career Networking Session (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/win-week-how-might-we-sharpen-movement-strategy-for-lasting-change-tickets-422720768197)
  • Network with others beginning their careers and find ways to connect and support one another
  • Sara Ivey, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-ivey-08126b31/) project director, Institute for People, Place and Possibility

WIN's work is grounded in shifting relationships, policies, investments and narratives at the organizational, community, state, and national levels to create the world we all want for ourselves and for future generations.  We believe this cannot happen without unprecedented collaboration.

"WIN accomplishes more by working together in a  movement to thrive together" observed Bobby Milstein, director of system science, the Rippel Foundation's ReThink Health Initiative. The power of this movement grows when all of us feel we belong and are valued for what we bring. That is how we build the civic muscle needed to expand humane housing, meaningful work and wealth, lifelong learning, and other vital conditions for well-being, equity, and racial justice."

About The WIN Network (http://winnetwork.org)

The Well Being In the Nation (WIN) Network (https://winnetwork.org/) is a growing strategic network of organizations, communities, and federal agencies working  together to advance intergenerational well-being and equity.

WIN Network is building an intersectional, multiracial, trans political, grassroots to grasstops movement that stands in solidarity:
  • those who have been leading movements for Black, Latino, Indigenous, migrant and other lives of communities of color
  • those who have been leading intersectional movements to build a more equitable and just democracy,
  • those who have been creating the conditions for well-being and equity in economy, health, business, housing, and other sectors.  

WIN Network (https://winnetwork.org/) Core Implementation Team

While WIN is powered by hundreds of partners, it is led by five core implementation partners.

chromatic black™ (https://chromaticblack.org/) a Black female-led artist-activist collective and producer of the award-winning short FANNIE, starring Oscar-nominated actress Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard) in the titular role.  chromatic black™ is powered by a collective of 10,000 artist-activists across a spectrum of creative disciplines.  chromatic black  works across film, television, live, and digital entertainment.  By amplifying futuristic perspectives on intergenerational healing and well-being, chromatic black™ seeks to introduce counter-narratives to the conventional perspectives that normally dominate the public common.

chromatic black™ (https://chromaticblack.org/)signature campaign Keep Black Love Alive (http://www.keepblacklovealive.org) is a storytelling and story-catching campaign to preserve cultural memory and immunize the Black community from truth decay. chromatic black™ (https://chromaticblack.org/)serves on the Core Implementation Team of WIN.

Community Initiatives Network (https://www.communityinitiatives.com/) is a network of curious and committed souls, advancing communities marked by a sense of belonging, stewardship, and willingness to act for the common good.  Community Initiatives is a founding partner in the WIN Network.

The Institute for People, Place and Possibility (https://www.i-p3.org/) is a nonprofit organization working to create healthy, equitable, sustainable communities that advance well-being now and for future generations.  IP3 serves on the Core Implementation Team of WIN.

ReThink Health (https://rethinkhealth.org/) works with national and regional stewards to discover what it takes to design and execute transformative change and produce better health and well-being for all.  ReThink Health serves on the Core Implementation Team of WIN.

Well-Being and Equity (WE) in the World (https://www.weintheworld.org/) (WE in the World) is a diverse team of well-being and equity architects who advance intergenerational well-being and equity on a foundation of racial and economic justice. WE in the World leads the Core Implementation Team of the WIN Network.

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