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Iris M. Crawford

Iris M. Crawford

San Francisco
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Social Justice

  • Activist
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  • Advocate
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  • Community Organizer
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  • Journalist
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  • Podcaster
Focus
Civic Engagement, Policy Advocacy, Socialy Engaged Art
Topics
Houselessness, Income Equality, Labour Rights, Affordable Housing, Environmental Justice, Gender Equality, Healthcare Access & Reform, Intersectionality, Political & Electoral Reform, Racial Diversity & Representation

Projects

active
March 2020 - Present

Trauma, Tresses, & Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narrative

  1. LW
    Lyzette Wanzer
+ 6 more

THE BOOK: Contributors in this collection are African American and Afro Latina authors relating their often shocking real-life encounters--vis-a-vis their natural hair--through personal essays. THE CONFERENCE: This 2-day virtual event will occur August 7th and 8th, 2021.

  1. Literary Arts
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  2. Social Justice
completed
April 2018

Linkages Across the Sea Level Rise Continuum

  1. IMC
    Iris M. Crawford

Overarching goal: Inspire, uplift and build the capacity of youth leadership in coastal states in the United States to address the impacts of sea level rise by storytelling, awareness rising and educating decision makers through experiencing Iceland.

  1. Social Justice
completed
May 2015

To Pimp A Butterfly (A culturally relevant pedagogy)

  1. IMC
    Iris M. Crawford

This lesson plan uses Kendrick Lamar's 2015 album "To Pimp A Butterfly" to explore ethnic notions, perceptions of Black women, and Black history through a culturally relevant pedagogy. Originally developed and presented at the University of Mississippi.

  1. Social Justice