Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian Highlighted in Blog Spotlight

December 30, 2016

My Blog, Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian and my best of 2016 roundup of posts was highlighted in a spotlight feature at Just Living 808, a social justice blog written by my friend and colleague Mike Spencer, Fedele F. Fauri Collegiate Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan and currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work.

“I’d like to take the time to spotlight a blog by a friend who is very special and extremely talented. The blog is called Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian and the author is Relando Thompkins-Jones. I met Relando when he was a student at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, where he worked with our team facilitating intergroup dialogue with high school youth in Ann Arbor. Since then, he has never ceased to amaze me with his grace, thoughtfulness, and skills. He is an outstanding dialogue facilitator and diversity educator….”

Considering that my experiences with Mike, my teachers and friends naomi warren, Mikel Brown, and others on the intergroup dialogue team encouraged me to start writing in the first place, this unexpected affirmation served to reinforce my belief that we are who we are because of others, and no one can “get there” by themselves.

Read the rest of Mike’s post and check out his blog, Just Living 808. I’ve added his blog to my blogroll and I hope you do too.

Ubuntu,

From Aspiring Humanitarian, Relando Thompkins-Jones, MSW, LLMSW

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Relando Thompkins-Jones

I'm a macro social worker, social justice educator, and consultant who uses media and education to advance equity and social justice within people, organizations, and communities. I am also the Founder, Host, Editor and Producer of Social Justice Origin Stories, a storytelling project that highlights the personal stories and defining moments that have inspired individuals and organizations to labor for equity and social justice. I started Social Justice Origin Stories because I believe in the power of storytelling and making our experiences accessible to others, because I believe in the liberatory effects of social justice education, to support justice-seekers in finding community and feeling less alone given the relentlessness of oppressive systems, and hopefully to be a resource of support and reflection for those who are thinking through how they could best contribute to the work. We need all who can, to do what they can.