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This year, LJIST and Latino Network are celebrating 10 years of UNID@S for Oregon, a cohort-based Latine leadership program. UNID@S, the vision of two of Oregon’s boldest Chicana leaders, Serena Cruz and Carmen Rubio, was born, like many visionary ideas, on a cocktail napkin. Despite being neighbors in NE Portland, Serena and Nanci first met…

Reflecting on Recent Engagements This fall we connected with a range of clients to bring our transformational healing approach to both first-time and return participants, including multiple conference sessions and a keynote. Survivor AllianceIn July, long-time partner Survivor Alliance hosted us at their 2021 World Congress, bringing together survivors of human trafficking and slavery from…

In August 2020, Nanci E. Luna Jiménez led a live virtual session about adultism and the LJIST Theory of Healing at the National Education Association’s Summer Justice Series (this session is still available for viewing on Facebook, now with over 2,400 views). Among the viewers was LaAlice Hopkins, at the time the Instructional Advocacy and…

Reflecting on Recent Engagements This spring we connected with a range of clients to bring our transformational healing approach to both first-time and return participants, including the first deliveries of our redesigned Giving and Receiving Just Apologies workshop. “Thank you so much for the workshop. It was incredibly powerful to see everyone’s vulnerability, as well…

LJIST’s partnership with the National Campus Compact as well as regional Compacts, like California Campus Compact (CACC) and the Campus Compact of New York & Pennsylvania (CCNYPA), emerged from a web of relationships. In 2017 the CACC hosted LJIST’s signature Transforming Relationships Program, which they called the Listening and Learning Institute (LLI). Nanci met Elaine…