Let’s expand the algorithm of scientific progress in food security, food systems, and nutrition and health to include the health outcomes of all our communities and let’s use this data to guide new research and resource investments. This is my long-term hope for this work.

This brief summarizes our 2022 network survey results, focusing on community power, features of community power, how groups build community power, the challenges and opportunities they face in their work, and how Praxis can support their efforts.

In this brief, we define popular education, discuss its merits, provide examples of popular education in action, and share recommendations and resources for incorporating popular education into your programming to better support dialogues and liberation.

This brief, created by The Praxis Project and Berkeley Media Studies Group, a program of the Public Health Institute, presents findings from a series of surveys, Learning Circles, and media analyses designed to examine the extent to which community basebuilding organizations (CBOs) played a role in declarations of racism as a public health crisis and how the declarations were covered in the media.

Join the Collaborative for Anti-Racism & Equity (CARE) for a webinar on the work being done to support and address the role of community declarations of racism as a public health crisis.

The Community Justice Exchange and The Praxis Project invite you to the virtual premiere of Getting Free from the Cage Within: Exploring the Intersection of Radical Healing, Abolition and Popular Education, a short animated video that offers a framework denouncing the colonial and white supremacist roots of our current carceral “democracy” and its painful traumatizing impact in our communities while calling us to commit to processes for radical healing centered in dignity and community.

The Praxis Project has partnered with ChangeLab Solutions on two policy briefs designed to aid policymakers, changemakers, local leaders, and organizers explore strategies to advance economic prosperity and racial equity in our rural communities. Read more about the briefs below.

In response to the SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action, we pledge to continue our work to break down barriers, focusing our efforts on building local power through initiatives that advance our democracy.