COVID-19 has seen the transformation of many real-life classrooms into digital spaces led by not only teachers but families and community members. At the same time, a racial justice uprising is taking place across the US, and continued attacks on women’s health and rights both in the U.S. and globally are ongoing.
How can we turn what looks like a crisis into an opportunity? How can educators seize this moment not only to maintain their educational goals, but to make the classroom a space for understanding pathways to racial and gender justice in the US and globally?
Bring your voice and ideas to this conversation, and hear from a diverse array of educators who are re-imagining education including through the use of Global Fund for Women and YouTube Original’s powerful film series, Fundamental directed by two-time Academy-Award winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
Lori Adelman is Vice President at Global Fund for Women overseeing strategic communications and partnerships. An advocate and media maker with 10+ years of experience promoting reproductive, racial, and gender justice globally, Lori previously served as the Director of Youth Engagement at Women Deliver, a global advocacy organization, and ran the website Feministing.com. She has also worked at Planned Parenthood Federation of America as Director of Global Communications and written for a host of print and digital properties.
Tajma Beverly is a composer and librettist who writes musicals and operas about extraordinary and “ev’ryday” Black people. In her day job, she is a researcher and cultural strategist currently serving as the inaugural Deborah Holmes Fellow with the Global Fund for Women, where she supports the organization in building strong relationships with Black communities, by infusing racial equity into gender justice work. Before arriving at Global Fund for Women, Tajma was a Teaching Artist and Composer-in-Residence with San Francisco Opera’s Education Department, where she joyfully composed mini-operas with Black and Brown 1st and 2nd graders attending Title I, public schools. She’s currently developing a musical about the Black middle class, White Supremacist thought, and the unsung virtues of bacon grease.
Wendy is the President of Picture Motion and has been working at the intersection of storytelling and social change since 2003. She is currently working on campaigns for Time, All In: The Fight for Democracy, The Fight and previously worked on Becoming, Free Solo, Won't You Be My Neighbor, Minding the Gap, Lion, 13th, Food Inc, The Cove and An Inconvenient Truth to name just a few. Prior to joining the Picture Motion family, Wendy was the Senior Director of Film Campaigns at Participant Media and in 2006, she became the first Community Manager for The Huffington Post.
Feminist movements have the power to disrupt the status quo and radically alter the course of history for women and girls—and ALL historically marginalized people and communities globally. But what does it really look like to be a feminist leader today?”
From Global Fund for Women and directed by two-time Academy Award-winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, FUNDAMENTAL profiles a distinct set of remarkable grassroots leaders working on issues from ending child marriage in Pakistan to pursuing LGBTQI liberation in Georgia. These incredible leaders are at the front lines of fighting for gender justice, and mobilizing to write new futures for themselves, their societies, and the world.”
The entire short docu-series is available to any organization, college, university or community that wants to participate this fall at NO COST TO YOU.
Request your screening today by filling out our screening application here.
