Advocacy

It hurts to be trans. It’s stressful. It’s disparaging. People often ignore us and so obviously wish we weren’t even a group that exists. It’s painful. The worst part is that I love being trans. I love feeling like I’m in control of my own identity and that I don’t…

(Adapted from my recent book, Advocating for the Environment, How to Gather Your Power and Take Action, published by North Atlantic Books.) What events have touched your heart? A brilliant sunset over the ocean? The birth of an animal or child? Is there a place in nature where you go…

The image is haunting: a small, cold, tired child walking alone along a road amid a brutal war. The trauma and fear clearly reflected in his young face as he seeks the warmth and security of home. We know that the home he left will never be the same –neither will he. His is the face of every child who is missing: frightened, in pain…

Owning My Light By Juan Acosta Mental Health? What is that? I grew up questioning what mental health was. Growing up I did not learn in school or at home that one must care for their mental health. Conversations around the topic were little to none, and when the conversations presented themselves…

Register for this free, online workshop and RSVP for the public lecture series brought to you by Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) in partnership with Amazon Photos. In 2021, Amazon Photos partnered with PCNW on a year-long workshop series titled Photography as an Agent for Change. …

The Differences Between Conference Attendance Experience as an Advocate versus Speaker and Attendee — It’s tech conference season! I’m starting to find that there are two busy periods in the year for tech conferences: April-May and October-November. It’s kept me busy as a new developer advocate starting in April 2022. It’s more of a learn-by-doing approach, just like learning to swim by being dropped…

Worldwide, over 6 million people are affected by Primary Immunodeficiencies, among which 70% to 90% remain undiagnosed. However, are we even aware of the diseases that come under PIDD or their cure? Due to lack of awareness regarding rare diseases, most of us might have heard the name itself, for…

Why do you hate me so? I advocate for the Persecuted Church — those who are hated without reason. Hated for following Christ. You tell me that I am delusional, and that all Christians are ‘idiots’, yet, I remain strong in my Catholic Faith; the roots of who I am! …