In his new book The Moment: Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice, bestselling author Steve Fiffer presents an oral history from today's social justice activists—many of them still under thirty years old—that is pitch perfect for these dissonant times. In this panel event, Mr. Fiffer will be joined in conversation by three of the changemakers highlighted in his book: Don Katz, founder of Audible.com; Michael Strautmanis, executive vice president for external affairs at the Obama Foundation; and Clarissa Martinez De Castro, vice president for Latino Vote Initiative of UnidosUS. The event will be moderated by Howard Rossman, founder and board president of the Chicago-based Civic Leadership Foundation.
Audible.com and Don Katz are generously offering 50 free one-month trials of Audible's Premium Plus Membership to webinar registrants on a first come, first served basis. If you are interested, register for the program and then contact contact Mary Diduch at mdiduch@audible.com for details and a promo code. In the subject box, write The Moment promo.
Those featured in The Moment--including Bryan (Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption) Stevenson and Glencoe's own Don Katz, founder of Audible.com--are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and white. Urban and rural. Immigrants and native born. They are students and teachers. Athletes and artists. Lawyers, doctors, politicians, farmers, architects, novelists, and more. Names familiar and unfamiliar. But as diverse a lot as they may be, these changemakers share one thing in common, each is committed to fighting inequality and injustice. Each, too, can pinpoint a moment when they were moved to action, when it became impossible to sit on the sidelines and just watch: when the teacher uttered racial slurs, when no one in the college club looked like they did, when the city was on the brink of disaster, when the authorities came for their undocumented mother, when they discovered their ancestors enslaved people, when the cop stopped them in their own driveway, when there was no fresh food in their community, when their right to vote was threatened. These first-person accounts look to inspire us to act, offer a blueprint for making change and, perhaps, most importantly, give us hope for the future. You can learn more about the book at themoment-thebook.com.
REGISTER HERE for this Zoom program. Copies of The Moment are available for purchase from the Book Stall.
About the author: Glencoe native Steve Fiffer is a New York Times bestselling author of twenty books, including his own memoir Three Quarters, Two Dimes and a Nickel and collaborations with the late civil rights icon C.T. Vivian, Southern Poverty Law Center founder Morris Dees, and former Secretary of State James Baker. A graduate of Yale and the University of Chicago Law School, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He currently serves on the advisory board of the Chicago-based Civic Leadership Foundation.
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