ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We honor those we have learned from by saying their names.
Calling In & Up is written by and for women identified people of color. It is built on shared knowledge and continues to be a living document for women identified people of color and their comrades.
Dedication
We dedicate this work to our nieces, Madison, Neveah, and Awo. We want you to know that we strive everyday to build a world that can hold your fullness.
Acknowledgments
To our current and future ancestors, particularly our mothers and grandmothers. Whenever something good happened in the space, something powerful or divine that we didn’t have an explanation for, we knew it was their hands at work. We appreciate our mothers for being living examples on this plane and our grandmothers for their continued guidance from the next plane.
To our biological sisters - Betsy, Lisa, Samantha, and Trudy - who taught us through bathroom battles, bedroom shares, and parent negotiations our first lessons in interdependence and principled struggle.
To “Team Liberated Zone” — Viveka Chen the Oracle, Zuri the Compass, Holiday the Healer — who expanded our imagination and breathed life and wisdom and skill and love into our vision.
To the first sowers of the seeds of these programs and those who cultivated the soil along the way: Dr. Charlene Sinclair, Nijmie Dzurinko, Tufara Waller Muhammad, Brittini Gray, Margaret Post, Yolande Cadore, Jaimie Walker, Grecia Lima, Ronnie Galvin, Wendoly Marte, Deirdre Reed, LaDon Love, Marcia Dinkins, Erika Peralta, Elsa Barboza, Tammy Thomas-Miles.
Staff of CC who provided support, wisdom, expertise and encouraged us. There are too many to name but special shout out to Kathy Mor (the GOAT) and Vick Baker for handling logistics with such love and intention and Susan Wefald and Community Change Field Support Team for championing this work.
To the visionary creatives who used their time and their talents to make the power of this work visible to a wider audience — Cristina Rayas, Tamika Blu Wright, Jennifer Cossyleon, Maya Simpkins, Karla McClean, Clem Sinclair, and Maris Medina. To Susan Wefald, Bianca Edwards, and Bethel Tsegaye, who offered their experience and wisdom to deepen our work and offer more transformative possibility in these sessions.
Deepest reverence and gratitude for the women of the women’s fellowship, Power 50, and the WoC Gatherings who have been our inspiration and our teachers. Thank you for your insistence that another way of organizing is not only possible but that it’s on its way. We just have to hold space for it.
Last but never least, to Susan Wilcox who is responsible for crafting this curriculum. And to Jocelyn Fong who painstakingly and lovingly translated the curriculum into this beautiful site. Thank you for seeing us — TRULY SEEING US. And for translating this into an offering for others. Ase.
-- Aida Cuadrado Bozzo and Trish Adobea Tchume,
the siblings who together hold and offer Calling In & Up to this community
Core Teachings
These writers, collectives, and publications inform the root and foundation of our work:
Combahee River Collective Statement
Transformative Organizing: Toward Liberation of Self and Society from Social Justice Leadership
Future Trends in Leadership Development by Nick Petrie for Center for Creative Leadership
Practicing Equity: Activating Oppositional Consciousness from the Margin, Zuri Tau in NonProfit Quarterly (February 2020)
Transformative Organizing: Toward Liberation of Self and Society - Social Justice Leadership
Power 50 Evaluation Report (July 2019) & Power 50 Mini-Intensive Report (April 2019) - Zuri N. Tau, Social Impact
Sources for Specific Ideas, Tools, Methods
Throughout the curriculum, you will see that we attribute the source of the ideas, tools, and methods included whenever possible. Please honor and cite these authors when you use our work.
Curriculum
Throughout the curriculum, you will see that we attribute the source of the ideas, tools, and methods included whenever possible. Please honor and cite these authors when you use our work.
Photography
Bio photos: The Calling In & Up community
Photographs: Facilitators and participants of Power50 and women's fellowship programs
Collages of Photographs: Jocelyn Fong