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“When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.” 
— Iyanla Vanzant
Transformative Justice Winter Webinar Series:
Reimagine Everything
Join us for a series of conversations designed to inform and inspire us as we fight to change our culture’s attitudes towards crime and punishment. This two week series will examine topics such as youth incarceration, transformative justice, disability justice, and prison abolition.
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2020-21 Everett Fellows Spotlight
Meet Some of the Fellows in This Year's Cohort!
Presenting our new International Partner!

The Everett Program strives to make a positive change within our own community and amongst others. Every year, students apart of the Everett Program get to work with a local or international project partner. This year, we have ten teams collaborating with different community partners working to make a positive change. The Everett Program is excited to work with a new project partner known as Voices of Women Media. 
Voices of Women Media is a feminist, nonprofit organization based in Nepal. Their mission is to promote a world-wide feminism movement, uphold women’s rights, and to be able to live in a world of equality where we are able to exercise our basic rights. According to their mission statements, VOW Media are “committed to offering access and opportunities to media technology and different forms of art, so that girls & women* can voice their own lives – in order to raise hidden and silenced issues in our communities.” Through the use of technology, they strive to create a world in which we are all on an equal playing field–specifically one which raises the voices of women and girls. The organization has multiple projects to help accomplish their goals including Memory, Truth, and Justice, Junkiri: The Feminist Library, and VOW Media Techno Hub. * (both cis and trans)
This year, the team consists of Lily Li, Amy Cruz, Andrea Lopez, and Sereena Yeghiazarian. These students are all committed to helping VOW Media with their Techno Hub project by developing a curriculum to help the staff transfer computer knowledge to Nepalese girls in a creative and innovative way. 

Source: Voices of Women Media, “About Us,” http://www.voicesofwomenmedia.org/aboutus/.

A Narrative Shift
In late spring to early June of 2020, the Community Bridges Everett team filmed a short series of interviews with unsheltered older adults in Santa Cruz. Initially, the Everett team’s project supported a promotional effort by Community Bridges on behalf of their Meals on Wheels Program, which in 2020 was slammed by a 40% increase in meal requests and still determined to bring meals to all seniors who needed them. But it grew to be more than that. Through speaking to these folx who had benefited from Meals on Wheels, the team heard more of what their everyday life was like - with struggles that no one should face, an often tight-knit community of unhoused individuals, and huge gaps between who they are as people and who the Santa Cruz community sees. The team grew more determined to change these experiences, shift Santa Cruz’ narrative from “community threat” to “community asset” and bridge the long-standing gaps between humans.

HERE is just one story the team came away with.
Everett News!
Digital Nest founder Jacob Martinez was recently announced as the new external adviser to the chancellor! The Digital Nest in Watsonville is has been a consistent partner to the Everett Program since it was founded in 2014. 

We're excited for Martinez and all of the contributions he will be able to make in this new position. 
 
Visit the link below for more about Martinez, his new position, and the Digital Nest:
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Black Owned Businesses in Santa Cruz!
By supporting more Black-owned companies, you can help create more opportunities for meaningful savings, property ownership, credit building, and generational wealth for black communities. If we all do our part in supporting black businesses, then we’re helping with the progression of strengthening many black communities. Supporting black businesses shouldn’t be a trend; it should be a lifestyle.

Visit the Santa Cruz black owned business directory here to support local black owned businesses!
Want to organize something where you live? Or promote other Everett-related events? Email Mai Sutton at maira.sutton@gmail.com or join the Everett Alumni slack to tell us about it so we can share!

If you have any questions, feedback, concerns, or content to share with the Everett Program community in future newsletters like events, job postings, or alumni spotlights please feel free to email our Engagement Team members:
Jordan(jorejime@ucsc.edu), Dora(dkhuu@ucsc.edu), Hannah(hmccaffe@ucsc.edu), Bianca(besquivi@ucsc.edu)
Shay(dwashin1@ucsc.edu), Miles(mklieman@ucsc.edu), and
Karina (kcruzros@ucsc.edu).
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