Connecting Our Heartlands: Towards an Inclusive American Creed

January 19, 2023

1:30-3:00pm PST (+for educators, 3:00-3:30pm PST interactive workshop)

SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND DISCUSSION EVENT:

Speakers:

• David M. Kennedy
• Danielle Allen
• Eric Liu
• Jace Charger
• Jonathan Blair
• Sam Schimmel

Join historian David M. Kennedy, co-host of the American Creed documentary initiative, and civics scholar Eric Liu (Citizen University) and political philosopher Danielle Allen (Harvard University Safra Center for Ethics) for a special photography and discussion virtual event with young rural leaders whose community organizing and documentary work affirms and challenges our notions of freedom, fairness and opportunity.

• Sam Schimmel will show and discuss his Kenaitze Tribe’s effort to take charge of economic development in alignment with community values.
• Jonathan Blair will show and discuss the program he leads to provide a pathway for blue collar descendants of coal miners to earn a college degree and stay in Appalachia.
• Jace Charger, co-founder of the very first protest camp at Standing Rock will show and discuss their ongoing work protecting land and water through intergenerational solidarity.

All are invited to join Dr. Kennedy for this special virtual event, from 1:30pm to 3:00pm PST. Register today! https://forms.gle/dNAoV2nnonFzNERNA 

Educators: join a half hour interactive workshop on how to bring “Citizen Power” photography projects and other American Creed curricula to your community. 1/19: 3-3:30pm PST / 4-4:30pm MST

This event is co-presented by the Center for Rural Strategies’ Rural Assembly; their media platform, The Daily Yonder; the documentary organization Citizen Film; the National Writing Project, the nation’s largest network of teacher leaders focused on the teaching of writing; and Working Assumptions, a program that supports high school and college students to photograph and write about work and family in their lives.

Register here.