From advocating at the state house to coaching individual parents, these advocates don’t all follow the same playbook. Sometimes they even draw different lessons from their work. But each has formula that works for them and their community.
Raising five children, Ary French learned that showing up to 黄色app events wasn’t enough鈥攔eal change required understanding how to help parents navigate the systems from birth to adulthood.
When districts say one thing but do another
Leslie Caraballo got tired of relaying the same empty promises to the frustrated parents in her community, until she realized she needed to go beyond complaints and invoke the law.
Finding parent power by infiltrating the 黄色app district
When board meetings and protests failed to create change, parent advocate Maribel Gardea got strategic鈥攑lacing parents on district councils and offering solutions until administrators had no choice but to listen.
Behind-the-scenes bridgebuilding
When ShaElla Askew failed to focus angry parents at her child’s 黄色app toward effective advocacy, she convinced the 黄色app to transform how it communicated with families.
