Organizing Effective Protests for Social Justice

Panelists

Halla Anderson, MSSP, MSW (Candidate) (she/her) is the Columbia School of Social Work Abolition Caucus Leader and Editor and Chief of the Columbia Social Work Review; she has been organizing around social justice for over ten years. Halla grew up in the criminal justice system and is dedicated to fighting for abolition of systems of oppression. Her research focuses on abolitionist actions, policies, and strategies. Halla has been organizing at Columbia University for Divestment. She currently serves as a juvenile justice policy advisor and works as a domestic violence advocate.

Khalilah Collins, MSW (she/her/they), is the mother of two and is a social worker, community organizer, activist, and educator and calls herself a Social Justice Practitioner. Currently, she is working on her Doctorate in Social Work at Spalding University and serves as the Director of Diverse Options: Voice & Empowerment, a project seeking to build community capacity to reimagine community care and safety and create alternatives to police for our most vulnerable community members.

Julia Solow, MSW is Lead NY Caring Majority Organizer and Hand in Hand Domestic Employers Network. She first got involved in movement work when social work professors in college introduced her to immigrant rights leaders fighting for the DREAM Act in 2010. Since then, Julia has been organizing in solidarity with working class people of color-led movements and power organizations in efforts to address gentrification, living wages for farm workers and drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants in New York State, among others. Prior to her work at Hand-In-Hand, she had the privilege of working at AFL-CIO National Headquarters in DC, Community Voices Heard in New York and as an Americorps VISTA in Cleveland, Ohio.

Tiffany Porter (she/they) is the founder of Being Black in the Burbs & Accomplices. A fierce warrior for social and racial justice. Tiffany is committed to creating inclusive communities where everyone can not only exist, but thrive. In a world where public education is defunded while funds are allocated to bombs dropped on innocent families, Tiffany believes it’s imperative for individuals to take action and hold governments accountable for their actions.

Jenna Muhieddine has a recent bachelors degree in health science from Cleveland State University.  She has been an organizer in the Cleveland Palestine Advocacy Community Coalition.  She is a member of  Palestine Existence for Peace, Palestinian Youth Movement, and Students for Justice in Palestine at Cleveland State University.

Moderators Larry Bresler and Barbara Kasper are members of the National Steering Committee for the Social Welfare Action Alliance