Our Voice Nuestra Voz

During fiscal year 2021-2022 OVNV continued to organize the community by identifying, recruiting, and developing community leaders. Our virtual and in-person leadership trainings developed strongly invested Black and Brown leaders who can execute complex issue campaigns. For example, during this time our leaders launched the Protect Parent Voice campaign after identifying silencing and retaliation from schools as a widespread issue. They worked with school board members, the media, and other influential stakeholders to run a structured and informed campaign that ultimately resulted in a school board policy codifying procedures to protect parents and students in instances of silencing or retaliation perpetrated by school staff.