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Welcome to the new and improved Everett newsletter! As this year’s new cohort of fellows has taken the helm of the program and is ushering in a new class of students, we are excited to get to share with you what is going on in the world of Everett. We will share with you the projects we have undertaken, our favorite tips and tools for tech, leadership or collaboration, catch up with our alumni, and find potential opportunities to network. We invite you to browse and click through our monthly newsletter as well as share it with your family and friends who might be interested in learning more about the program, and have them sign up to receive future newsletters directly. If you have events to let others know about or would like to be interviewed for the alumni profiles, get in touch with us at everettprogram@gmail.com.
Happy Reading,
-Savanna Christy and Sierra Topp, Everett Engagement Team
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Everett Student Project Shoutout
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“...we taught these girls more than just the importance of tech, we shared knowledge about disparities within the world and the importance of sisterhood” Glorianna Klyce
The Youth Empowerment Institute is a week long coding camp for high school girls from Watsonville, San Jose, San Francisco, and the East Bay. This camp is held at UCSC giving young girls the chance to live in the dorms as college students while learning to code their own app. The camp was developed as an attempt to bridge the digital divide across gender and race in the Santa Cruz County. This year's camp had 13 girls in attendance and they created an app instructing users in how to create their own app. Check out more!
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"I love being fellows coordinator because the role allows me to stay connected to all aspects of the fellowship. There's a lot that goes into the program from planning and teaching to outreach and searchlighting, and being able to foster community across those clusters is important to me I love the Everett program for the connections I've built in this space, and it's really rewarding to be able to extend that to the fellowship, the pro staff, and the new students we have this year"
-felix
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Meet felix (pronouns: they/them/theirs), the Fellows Coordinator of the 2018-2019 fellows cohort. The Fellows Coordinator represents the cohort of Fellows, runs weekly Fellow's meetings and communicates with staff on behalf of the cohort. felix also is one of the Leadership Lab leaders this quarter, leading weekly classes with this year's students on communication and leadership skills in small discussion-based groups. They are passionate about building community supports that ensure stable access to food, housing, and adequate healthcare for marginalized folks, especially those who are trans/gender non-conforming, LGBTQ+, disabled, and/or houseless. You can ask them about social media, graphic design, and general tech learning strategies and opportunities to bake/cook for the movement. Their favorite about the Everett Program is the focus on peer-to-peer/near-to-peer learning and the safety net that Everett provides to help students gain experience and try out big ideas.
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"whenever possible I try to demystify technology and find opportunities to teach people" -Suzi Grishpul
Meet Suzi Grishpul: a 2008 Everett graduate, she works with 350.org, a global movement that's inspiring the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis, on web development carrying on her legacy in tech work as the first female technology coordinator for Everett. She has carried over her desire to bridge digital divides and finding news ways to share and democratize technology education and information. We sat down with Suzi to discuss her time in Everett, her career path and how to take the values she cultivated during her time with Everett with her into the professional world. Click here to read our full q&a
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Tips and Tools for: Constructive Conversations
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Content to consume:
Dylan Marron is a social activist who works in the digital space. and has most recently gained notoriety for his podcast "Conversations with People who Hate Me" in which he conducts phone calls with people who have left hate comments with his other online work or facilitates conversations between others about the topics on which they fundamentally disagree. His work is a wonderful example of how to conduct conversations across boundaries, while still holding your own space and values. Check out his podcast or his TED Talk provided above.
Practices to implement:
Source: Sharma, Monica. Radical Transformational Leadership: Strategic Action for Change Agents. North Atlantic Books, 2017. table 7.1 Aware Conversations for Radical Transformation
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