Connecting Movements & Building Resilience: Achieving Vision 2075

Rio Holaday

Collectrify’s May 6 Learning Community Collaboratory featured two climate-justice luminaries - Jacqueline Patterson, Founder and Executive Director of the Chisholm Legacy Project, and Michelle Andy Martinez, Lecturer and Inaugural Director of the Tishman Center for Social Justice and the Environment at the University of Michigan. 

The discussion, beautifully captured in the graphic recording above, explored:

• How intersectional movement building reinforces climate, housing, and justice goals 

• What it takes to build collective power and respond to today’s urgent challenges

• Opportunities to deepen engagement in this critical moment

  
  

In our first conversation, Jacqui and Michelle shared what brought each of them to the work that they do and led us in a conversation about intersectionality, power building, and what is needed to shift narratives. 

Today’s challenges require deeper alignment across sectors and bolder strategy. 

Working to decarbonize homes offers the possibility of simultaneously addressing energy affordability, housing stability, public health, and climate justice, and it is most effective when it is led by community.

Collectrify is convening conversations within our Learning Community Collaboratory and beyond about how we might work together to create resilient, affordable, and healthy housing for those most impacted by energy burden and climate vulnerability as a way to create a fair economy that benefits all. 

Join us on August 21 from 10-Noon PT/ 1-3pm ET as we continue this series on what is needed to deepen resilience, build power, and shift dominant narratives in the next 5 years to meet our vision for 50 years into the future. 

You can watch how the conversation unfolded in this time-lapse video.  Please be sure to watch at a slow speed to capture the content.