Join us as we celebrate the launch of Deepa Iyer's new guide, SOCIAL CHANGE NOW: A GUIDE FOR REFLECTION AND CONNECTION. Deepa will be joined in conversation by Consuelo Tupper Hernández and Bonnie Kwon!
This event will include a workshop, short panel, and Q&A.
Books will be available for purchase at the event from our friends at Dog Eared Books!
About SOCIAL CHANGE NOW
Social Change Now is a practical guide for those at every stage of their individual and organizational journeys towards justice, equity and solidarity. It introduces an ecosystems framework that includes ten roles that many of us play in service of our social change values. But the book goes further. It contains detailed descriptions and real-world examples, reflection prompts (with room to write responses), and accessible tips that can immediately be put into action. This book is a resource that will accompany individuals and organizations not only in times of crisis, but throughout their lifelong social change journeys to build connected communities and equitable systems in our world. Over the past three years, people and organizations around the world have used the social change ecosystem framework to respond to the pandemic, express solidarity during the uprisings against anti-Black racism, and support multiracial coalitions struggling for reproductive rights, immigrant and refugee protections, and climate justice.
Social Change Now is a collaboration between Deepa Iyer, Thick Press, an experimental publishing practice, and Omnivore, a design studio founded by Asian American women.
About Deepa Iyer
Deepa Iyer leads projects on solidarity and social movements at the Building Movement Project. Her first book, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (The New Press, 2015), chronicles community-based histories in the wake of 9/11 and received a 2016 American Book Award. Deepa’s most recent book (2022), a guide based on the social change ecosystem map that she created, is called Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection.
About Consuelo Tupper Hernández
Consuelo is an interdisciplinary artist and writer born and raised in Chile. After receiving her Bachelor in Fine Arts, she specialized in the areas of social practice and artistic education. Always looking for connections between visual literacy, critical thinking, and community development, Consuelo has spent the past twelve years organizing and supporting projects that use art as a tool for social change. In 2019, she came to the Bay Area under a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue her Master in Fine Arts at CCA, where she focused on issues around migration, storytelling, and epistemological justice. Her relationship with La Peña started as soon as she arrived to California, when she participated in several events that responded to the Chilean social uprising of 2019. Since then, La Peña has meant to her a place of congregation and belonging, which is why it means a lot to her to be part of its team as the Programming and Marketing Manager.
About Bonnie Kwon
Bonnie Kwon is a child of immigrants, parent, and builder. As a policy officer for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), she helps develop and implement the foundation’s policy advocacy strategy. Prior to WKKF, she was as a partner at the Reimagine Collective, an association of mission-driven Asian American strategists, organizers, and designers; director of network innovation at the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum in Oakland, California; and deputy regional director for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders.