Updates from our September Membership Call

Sep 27, 2019

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The 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