Community Learning Partnership

CLP board member, Rosa Garcia, co-wrote this piece, examining the devastating impact of COVID-19 on low-wage workers.

Workforce inequalities must be addressed before another economic or health crisis The impact of the coronavirus is having rippling effects on the economy and on the workforce. Measures must be put in place to insulate workers from the current and future economic or health crises.

Thanks to Bringing Theory To Practice for shouting out CLP as a "program you should know about!"

August 21, 2019 | Bringing It #22: Programs You Should Know About and Books You Should Read | Bringing Theory to Practice Dear friends, You may have seen our AAC&U-sponsored email blast, sharing a special offer on BTtoP’s publications. For a limited time, we are making our six books, designed for use by educators, administrators, and higher education professionals, available for free through our partners at AAC&U –...

“I’d never been a part of a class where the professor was like, what do you want to get out of this?” said Staci Lowry of her time in the CLP-affiliated Community Leadership Program at Henry Ford College

Staci Lowry, On Developing a Community Change Network Staci Lowry, a 35-year-old mother of three based in Detroit, Michigan, experienced an incredible scare in 2014, when her youngest child suffered a stroke. Her daughter is fortunately fine today. “She’s the most rambunctious of my three children, so she’s resilient,” Staci said. But this mome...

How online organizers are helping to disrupt alt right rallies

The alt-right is in decline. Has antifascist activism worked? Antifascists tactics have led not only to failed events and dwindling cadres but to infighting and blame games in an increasingly fractious far-right movement

Christine Marinoni, the wife of "S*x & the City" Star and candidate for NY Gov Cynthia Nixon is a long time LGBTQ advocate and policy analyst: Via Bustle

Everything You Need To Know About Cynthia Nixon's Activist Wife Considering that television star and activist Cynthia Nixon announced on Monday that she would be running for governor's seat in New York, you might be wondering who Christine Marinoni is. Nixon's wife works in the LGBTQ community as an activist and …

A "powerful" group of students came together at De Anza as part of the Student Voices United for Change conference held last month VIDA

VIDA brings together student activists Student activists gathered for a conference on social justice and student empowerment in the Riverside room of the Student Center on Friday, March 16. The Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Ac…

Student have long been leading the way...

7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism The survivors of the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting have surprised many with their public activism. But they are hardly the first students to push the adult world for political change.