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Director/Co-Founder, Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities queer/non-binary. we can all be free. love Chicago

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At March 18 ARCC Community Research Learning Exchange, participants can also connect with ARCC Seed Grantees and get application support for 2026 ARCC Seed Grant Applications (due Apr 23).

RSVP bit.ly/ARCCLE

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At March 18 ARCC Community Research Learning Exchange, we’ll also be joined by Access Living, an ARCC Steering Committee member, who will facilitate a breakout session on using research to challenge inequities, inform policy campaigns, and build community power.

RSVP bit.ly/ARCCLE

13.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Announcing our featured panel at next week's March 18 ARCC Community Research Learning Exchange:

β€œCommunity Violence Intervention: Building Data & Relationships to Address Trauma and Promote Healing.”

Panelists include the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago & @cornersresearch.bsky.social

Announcing our featured panel at next week's March 18 ARCC Community Research Learning Exchange: β€œCommunity Violence Intervention: Building Data & Relationships to Address Trauma and Promote Healing.” Panelists include the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago & @cornersresearch.bsky.social

Featured panel at next week's March 18 ARCC Community Research Learning Exchange: β€œCommunity Violence Intervention: Building Data & Relationships to Address Trauma and Promote Healing.”

Panelists include the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago & @cornersresearch.bsky.social

RSVP bit.ly/ARCCLE

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I'm honored to be on the host committee this year for @crossroadsfund.bsky.social spring fundraiser, Seeds of Change!
 
Join me to raise money for Chicago social justice movements! Fri, March 13, 2026: Malcolm X College: 5:30 pm.🌱

🎟️Buy Tickets/Sponsorship today: crossroadsfund.org/seedsofchange

I'm honored to be on the host committee this year for @crossroadsfund.bsky.social spring fundraiser, Seeds of Change! Join me to raise money for Chicago social justice movements! Fri, March 13, 2026: Malcolm X College: 5:30 pm.🌱 🎟️Buy Tickets/Sponsorship today: crossroadsfund.org/seedsofchange

I'm honored to be on the host committee this year for @crossroadsfund.bsky.social spring fundraiser, Seeds of Change!

Join me to raise money for Chicago social justice movements! Fri, March 13, 2026: Malcolm X College: 5:30 pm.🌱

🎟️Buy Tickets/Sponsorship today: crossroadsfund.org/seedsofchange

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Over the years, ARCC has distributed more than $2 million to nearly 150 community organizations and community-academic partnerships β€” leading to advancements in health equity, stronger collaboration, policy change, over $40 million in subsequent funding, and 50 peer-reviewed publications.

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For 18+ years, ARCC has invested in community research across Chicagoland. Grants support partnerships & work rooted in community priorities & leadership whether you’re interested in how research can be a tool to amplify your CBO, building a new partnership, or piloting a research project together.

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πŸ’² FUNDING πŸ’² for Community Research! from Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities
Community Capacity Building, Partnership Development, Research Pilot
Learn more http://bit.ly/ARCCgrants! 
Info sessions: Feb 27 virtual, Mar 18 in-person
Due Apr 23

πŸ’² FUNDING πŸ’² for Community Research! from Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities Community Capacity Building, Partnership Development, Research Pilot Learn more http://bit.ly/ARCCgrants! Info sessions: Feb 27 virtual, Mar 18 in-person Due Apr 23

Seed Grant FUNDING for Community Research from Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities

πŸ‘‰Community Research Capacity-Building $2,500, 6 mos
πŸ‘‰Partnership Development $5K, 12 mos
πŸ‘‰Research Pilot $25K, 24 mos

bit.ly/ARCCgrants
Info sessions: Feb 27 virtual, Mar 18 in-person
Due Apr 23

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This 3-month Fellowship will support a cohort of 4-5 Fellows and provide to fellows:
- reimbursement of up to $4,000
- capacity building sessions including a mix of in-person (2-3) and virtual workshops (2-3)
- informal virtual cohort check-ins
- resources
- and connections.

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2. Enhance journalists’ capacity to understand health science, data sources, and issues.
3. Cover changing health landscape, including shifts in health and science misinformation and disinformation, the public’s health and science literacy, and trusted messengers.

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Goal of Fellowship is to support Chicagoland community media journalists in making health science, data, & issues accessible, understandable, & actionable for the benefit of public’s health.
The Fellowship is an opportunity to:
1. Grow field of journalists covering health science in Chicago area
..

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New Fellowship, Applications Open!
Health Science Reporting Fellowship for Community Media Journalists is co-led by @publicnarrative.bsky.social & the Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities at Northwestern University.

Deadline: March 16, 2026
Learn more: lnkd.in/ggefwD5x

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Join us at the ARCC Community Research Learning Exchange next month on March 18 in Pilsen- RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gPGM5rsK

Join us at the ARCC Community Research Learning Exchange next month on March 18 in Pilsen- RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gPGM5rsK

Join us at the ARCC Community Research Learning Exchange next month on March 18 in Pilsen- RSVP here: lnkd.in/gPGM5rsK

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We look forward to entering the new year in deeper and more intentional solidarity, continuing to collaborate for justice while caring for ourselves and one another. Wishing you peace, restoration, and love this holiday season. πŸ’•

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Rest & celebration are not retreat from the work but a vital part of sustaining & expanding it. In this season of pause & celebration, we honor rest as resistance, care as strategy, & joy as fuel for the long road ahead.

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Together, we also held space for visioning & planning for futures we want to build including research & knowledge sharing partnerships rooted in community power, lived experience, & shared commitment to health justice.

This work calls for courage and persistence and it also calls for rest and joy.

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Happy holidays from the Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities! As we close out 2025, we hold deep gratitude for the ways our community continued to show up for one another, organizing, questioning, resisting, & advocating in the face of ongoing harm impacting our neighborhoods.

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As they live Chicago’s β€˜Death Gap,’ a three-generation West Side family fights to end it

West Garfield Park residents are expected to live on average until 67 years old, compared to 87 in the Loop. This is the widest death gap in Chicago.

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Chicagoans! I was part of this project about a decade ago. Highly recommend! The experiences and friendships are lasting gifts.
Apply by THIS FRIDAY Nov 14

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Resign @durbin.senate.gov

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It is a time to gather, a time to connect, a time to reimagine & plan, a time to act...
Join the Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities Fall Partner Gathering! Opp for community & academic researchers to discuss challenges & reimagine what’s possible together. πŸ‘‰ bit.ly/ARCCFallGathering

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Yessssssssssss!!!!!
⚑❀️πŸ”₯✨

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Bad Press is a documentary that will take you through the freedom of the press journey in a Tribal community! A must see for those that care about the role of the press in democracy!
Oct 24, Northwestern University, Evanston

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One sheet for documentary film "Heightened Scrutiny." An upside down supreme court building hangs guillotine-like above the thumbnails of  filmmaker Sam Feder and the guest speakers Lilly Wachowski (me,) Crispin Torres, Mickey R Mahoney and AllienSteve Mullen.

One sheet for documentary film "Heightened Scrutiny." An upside down supreme court building hangs guillotine-like above the thumbnails of filmmaker Sam Feder and the guest speakers Lilly Wachowski (me,) Crispin Torres, Mickey R Mahoney and AllienSteve Mullen.

join me and my pals at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social where i'll be bringing my patented run-on sentences and cul-de-sac musings to this panel for new doc by the brilliant @samfeder.bsky.social
tickets are limited!

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Read the essay and reflect on how you might use your own power and share with others. Interested in learning more or joining us in HPOP? Contact us at HPOPstaff@gmail.com

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To do this, HPOP is building a network founded in authentic relationships to inform future collective actions. A key strategy of HPOP is building relationships/partnerships with and learning from community organizers and community organizing principles.

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Strong collective analysis of the Health & Power Organizing Project (HPOP) argues that academic public health must enhance its capacity in building & breaking power to make meaningful change.

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Must read @amjpublichealth.bsky.social commentary: β€œWhy Building Power is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity”: lnkd.in/gE-fh_vr

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Standing Up for Core Principles in Departments of Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health: Department Chairs Speak Out | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 11 American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

Recommendations in Call to Action:
-Sustain & Strengthen Community Partnerships
-Protect Academic Freedom & Scientific Integrity
-Support Colleagues Facing Threat & Disruption
-Support Resilience
-Promote Advocacy & Effective Communication

brnw.ch/21wWweb

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The Plight of Marginalized Populations in 2025: The Assault on Health Equity Through a Systems Lens | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 11 American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

For the public health community, the moral imperative is clear. It must uphold its values to protect the needy, denounce racism & other forms of discrimination, & advocate social justice-regardless of political retribution."
From @shwoolf.bsky.social et al. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

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"Chicago’s health leaders & hospital CEOs must now step forward as their predecessors once did.... (with) a declaration that hospitals are sanctuaries, not staging grounds for federal raids."

Model citywide policy is needed to...rebuild trust in Chicago’s health institutions as safe havens for all

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