Amber J. Phillips Midwest Culture Lab

Hi I’m Gerald Lenoir from the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley.

HI all - Patrick Moreno-Covington from the Houston Endowment

Prentiss Haney from Ohio Student Association

Ali Bibbo from ProgressNow Colorado, hi everyone!

Hi all! Josh Clark from the Haas Institute, UC Berkeley

Hi all, Jenny Flanagan, Common Cause

Brigid Hall, Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation

Hi, Val Vilott from Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation

Hi, Yvonne Yu from Lake Research Partners

Hi all! Liz Hynes from the Narrative Initiative.

Hi everyone, Pete Altman from Natural Resources Defense Council here!

“Never works to extract from the communities that built it” So well said Prentiss.

This is great. Connecting the culture with this work. As a product of the culture, it’s amazing this connection is happening and working towards it

FYI Amber J. Phillips is a genius.

FACT

Amber J. Phillips + Kirk Cheyfitz = fire

Dream teams!!

Guidelines = ISSA VIBE. ISSA MOOD

These pillars = why working with and centering young people in all this work is the best.

Are the slides being sent out after the webinar?

Yes we can do that!

we are ready for this - love everything here thank you

Great thank you

“The Movement must be fly” - Amber J. Phillips

artist’s work is labor, too - great, Prentiss, that you will be providing those mini-grants

Snaps Prentiss!

Like that scene in Space Jam!

That's a critical distinction and critical knowledge about what moves young people

Hi all! Please put questions into chat if you have them! We will have just a bit of time at the end here to answer them.

Not mention the impact this will have on the existing work in our field more broadly

Yes Jenny! There’s so much for organizing and cultural organizing to learn from each other

Hi Prentiss and Amber - can you please say which influencers (meaning marquee name types) you have lined up to engage on these three campaigns?

And not to mention that beyond building future leaders it builds the progressive "bench" (so to speak) for future elected officials

can you discuss what the collaboration between the three different orgs MLC, OSA and AYO looks like?

Tanya, I also think Stevie can talk about their relationship to Chance the Rapper in Chicago as an example of a relationship

You talk about youth being co-creators in the development of narratives. How else do they exert their leadership within the Culture Lab?

And Tanya, it’s super important to recognize that marquee names are a piece of the puzzle — emerging artists are also crucial. Funding is critical to put in place cultural organizers in each of the anchor organizations to build those networks and ensure creative partnerships are strategic and enduring.

Brigid, the leadership of this project is all young POC leaders: Art Reyes, ED of We The People (Michigan); Stevie Valles, ED of Chicago Votes; Prentiss Haney, ED of Ohio Student Association; Sarah Audelo, ED of Alliance for Youth Organizing; Amber J. Phillips is leading creative and cultural network building. Young people will be hired as youth organizers.

Thank you everyone! Please hit us up with more questions or thoughts! midwestculturelab@gmail.com

There are some cultural strategy consultants available to support with training and resources like myself and Erin Potts (founder of Revolutions Per Minute) and Kirk Cheyfitz. But it’s all led by young people.

Excellent work. Excellent presentations. Thanks so much. I appreciate all of you.

Thanks Gerald!

Thank you, great and exciting work!

Thanks Patrick!!

THIS is the expertise. It's not young people have been failing, it's the old models and structure failing young people. Thanks MCL!

Yes Josh!!

Thanks, all.

Thanks, all! This was great and very helpful.

Thanks all!!