As we continue to highlight women leaders of color in mental health and peer movements, we are happy to share our next leader featured in the Black Movement History Leaders exhibit: Executive Director of the 黑料正能量 City Justice Peer Initiative (JPI) and 黑料正能量 黑料正能量 City Regional Coordinator, Helen 鈥淪kip鈥 Skipper! Read below to see a snapshot of Skip鈥檚 work and learn more about the project.
黑料正能量鈥 Cultural Competence Committee is happy to share a wonderful project from the Wildflower Alliance highlighting often overlooked leaders within various mental health movements. The Black Movement History Leaders: Past & Present exhibit is both a way to publicly recognize these leaders鈥 great work as well as a call to develop and lift more emerging leaders of color. In the spirit of Women鈥檚 history month, we plan to use the remaining days in March to highlight women of color who have been trailblazers in overlapping movements. For more on the Black Movement History Leaders exhibit and how you can nominate leaders from your community, see below!
There have been and continue to be many powerful Black leaders within this movement who too often are made less visible by a society that still finds it easier and more automatic to lift up white voices first. This exhibit is intended as only one of many small steps to counter that trend, and to help us avoid losing more stories from our history than have already been lost. We consider this not just an exhibit, but a call to action to lift up more black voices, to at least sometimes take a step back to make space for those who鈥檝e had less access to these platforms, to share or pass along invitations to step forward, and to make intentional efforts to mentor and grow emerging Black voices, too. Sera Davidow, Executive Director for Wildflower Alliance tells more about her experience with this project in this .