Show Notes
Tuesday and Tim are joined by Natalie Williams + Alex Schneider, advocates of social change, who talk about their work, via The Wellbeing Blueprint, of reimagining a country where everyone has an opportunity for wellbeing.
About The Wellbeing Blueprint:
It’s a community, a roadmap and a movement grounded in six key principles:
Start with what matters to people: wellbeing
Build on social connections and social capital
Span boundaries
Push against harms in communities already facing the greatest adversity
Build financial security
Sustain transformation beyond the pandemic
About Natalie Williams:
Natalie believes that all people should have the opportunity to live their best life. She is passionate and committed to advancing equity and wellbeing for all people. As the Director of the Wellbeing Blueprint, Natalie focuses on driving transformative change by centering communities’ voice and empowerment.
Natalie brings over 20 years of activism experience both in the community and within systems. Her expertise includes community mobilization, health and human services transformation, organizational effectiveness, national coalition-building, and advancing racial equity and justice. Natalie has been relentless in supporting marginalized communities through inclusion, education, innovation, and a data-driven outcome approach in all of her work. Natalie sees a future centered on all people having social and economic empowerment and believes proximate and formal leaders have the power to change the world one day at a time. In addition, Natalie is a wife and mother. Most weekends, you can find Natalie cheering her children on from the sideline of a soccer or baseball game.About Alexander Schneider:
Alex Schneider is a Senior Manager on the Justice Lab’s Youth Justice Initiatives (YJI) team, which is focused on ending the punitive youth prison model and accelerating investment in those communities that have been hardest hit by youth incarceration. Alex works on strategic communications and producing events, publications, and other materials to further YJI’s mission. Previously, he managed an environmentally focused workforce development program at Sustainable South Bronx and The HOPE Program and also coordinated an adult education program for people with justice involvement at The Fortune Society. From 2011 to 2021, he volunteered with the People's Education Initiative, providing educational classes at the women's jail on Rikers Island. He also spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English as a second language in Ukraine. Alex has a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Management from The New School, and a BA from the University of Toronto.
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Song lyric that Alex is carrying in his back pocket: “I am an untold story, gotta tell it first, or they’re gonna tell it for me…“ from the song “Untold Story,” by Bre of “The Care, Not Control” campaign, Pennsylvania.
Quote that Natalie is carrying around in her back pocket: “It always seems impossible until it is done.” - Nelson Mandela