Bringing Our Values to Policy

Being a person of color in policy can be tough work for many reasons, not least of which is figuring out how to create change while also sustaining ourselves financially and emotionally.

Join SSOC on 2/28 as learn from some of our role models in policy about how they bring their identity and values in their work while also finding community and joy.

Shawna Wakefield (she/her) is a facilitator, strategist and network builder who supports leaders and their organizations to develop capacities for strengthening organizational cultures of care, justice, equity and inclusion. She has dedicated over 25 years to advancing intersectional gender, race and economic justice and women's rights transnationally and in the U.S. This includes work on transformative approaches to racial equity, ending violence against women, feminist leadership and movement building. She is currently an Assistant Associate Professor at SIPA, an Associate with Gender at Work and Co-Founder of Root. Rise. Pollinate! (an emergent community of practice and healing for feminist change makers). She works with philanthropic organizations, international organizations, UN agencies, social justice and movement building organizations.

Van C. Tran is a sociologist whose research and writing broadly focus on the incorporation of Asian and Latino immigrants and their children, as well as its implications for American culture, politics and society. Within this area, his contribution lies in the study of the immigrant second generation (i.e. children of immigrants born in the U.S.) and how ethnic neighborhoods and cultural processes shape social mobility among second-generation Asian and Latino/a Americans.

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