We recently added several new staff members to our organizing, communications and regional support team. Learn more about them below and see how, together, we're continuing to proclaim a new vision for the Central Valley. Alexandra Alvarado is new to…
In this next installment of our Faith in the Valley Justice Interview series, we talk with Aaron Cho and Susie Gamez about the recent surge in anti-AAPI violence across the country and how the faith community can combat the hate.
In this next installment of our Faith in the Valley Justice Interview series, we talk with Dr. Karen Crozier about what it was like growing up in Fresno and what drew her to a life of serving the church.
Faith in the Valley applauds the Biden Administration’s historic plan to invest $5 billion dollars in evidence-based, community violence intervention programs over the next eight years.
Faith in the Valley and the Kieshaun White Cleaner Air Experiment discuss the complexities of Black youth navigating a system that claims to have their best interest at heart, but continues to fail them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMTvy0qVtEE
We mourn with our Asian-American/AAPI kin as they navigate a country that has a longstanding tradition of targeting them with legal and interpersonal discrimination and marginalization; they have experienced increased hate and violence since the outbreak of COVID-19.
This installment of the Faith In the Valley Justice Interview Series is a conversation about political violence in California's Central Valley. Participants think through political violence as not reducible to white-nationalist protest violence, but rather political violence as constitutive to the structural reality of America itself.
The most recent youth shootings involved a 15-year-old in southeast Fresno on Nov. 15, and a 13-year-old boy from central Fresno on Nov. 24 — two areas highly impacted by gun violence. The city has seen a steep climb in gun violence this year with 63 homicides. Marcel Woodruff, lead organizer with Faith in the Valley, said the most active pockets of town are known to have some of the worst air quality in Fresno.
In this Faith in the Valley Justice interview, we feature three Faith In the Valley organizers from different locations across the Central Valley and we explore how to critically engage new and infrequent voters who question the electoral voting process.
In this conversation, Dr. Christophe Ringer discusses the critical importance of November’s election through the intersection of faith and politics. Ringer says we all need to vote not just because voting is what keeps us connected as a society, but voting is also a shared responsibility for each other.
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