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Updates from our September Membership Call
Sep 27, 2019The USHRN September membership call took place on September 12, 2019. Several USHRN members presented their work on the call including: Ron Davis (The Jordan Davis Foundation), P. Moses (Black Lives Matter Memphis), Nyasa Hendrix (Black Women’s Blueprint), and Jamila Flomo and Amanda Suarez (University of Miami Law School Human Rights Center). If you missed the call but would like to hear updates from these and other members, check out the recording link here. For more information on each of the presenters, click here.
We encourage our members to connect and build with presenters and their organizations, each of whom are doing important work across the US. Please find the contact information of members on the call who would like to collaborate with you at the bottom of this article. We look forward to updating you on our burgeoning work with various members that evolved through the September membership call.
Our next membership call will take place on Thursday, November 21, 2019. Register for our next call here. If you would like to present your work at our next meeting, please email member@ushrnetwork.org and we will make sure to add you and your organization to the agenda.
Are you an active USHRN member? Please contact us to make sure your organization’s membership status is active. Not a member? Click here to become a member today.
September Member Call presenter contact information:
Ron Davis, The Jordan Davis Foundation
Phone number: (404) 447-6181
Email: monvie4u2@gmail.com
Website: www.walkwithjordan.org
P. Moses, Black Lives Matter Memphis
Email: pamelamoses.blm@gmail.com
Website: www.blacklivesmattermemphis.org
Hershel Daniels, Friends of the African Union
Email: fauchairman@friendsoftheafricanunion.com
Website: www.friendsoftheafricanunion.com
For more information on the #BlackFolksPlan visit: www.friendsoftheafricanunion.com/the-daniels-idiq
Nyasa Hendrix, Black Women’s Blueprint
Email: education@blueprintny.org
Website: www.blackwomensblueprint.org
Training Website: www.bwbtraining.org
Additional Resources: www.blackwomensblueprint.org/black-feminist-resources
Sexual Abuse to Maternal Mortality: www.bwbtraining.org/hands-off-our-bodies
Jamila Flomo and Amanda Suarez, University of Miami Law School Human Rights Center
Email: hrc@law.miami.edu, j.flomo-clinic@law.miami.edu, a.suarez-clinic@law.miami.edu
COURAGE Project (Community Oriented and United Responses to Address Gender Violence and Equity) website: https://www.law.miami.edu/courage
Vickie Casanova Willis, Human Rights Cities Alliance
Email: vickie.casanova@yahoo.com
Website: wiki.humanrightscities.mayfirst.org
International Decade for People of African Descent Resources:
Visit USHRN’s IDPAD website to learn about the International Decade for People of African Descent.
Website: www.idpad.org
Universal Periodic Review Resources:
Email: UPR Task Force Co-chair Joshua Cooper, joshuacooperhawaii@gmail.com
Email: UPR Task Force Co-chair Mary Gerisch, marygerisch@gmail.com
List of UPR Working Groups: www.upr2020.org/join-a-working-group
Website: www.upr2020.org
To join a Working Group, you can also contact Salimah Hankins, shankins@ushrnetwork.org
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