Callie Himsl: Top 5 New Essentials to Social Justice

When I first stepped foot in the Caribbean country of Haiti, just an hour and a half flight from Florida, it was about a year after the unfortunate 2010 earthquake that brought the country back to the front minds of the world.

I jokingly tell people that at that time we didn’t even have iPhones, ok but seriously we kind of did but like no one did, I was T-9ing on my Nokia brick phone

So much has changed since that time, Uber exists, Airbnb is now a thing, fingerprint pay, tap to pay, Venmo, all the ways to pay have changed, but on a more serious note, the way we approach foreign aid, social aid, and many levels in the world of social justice has changed, which I guess you could say is a good thing, that means we are learning and evolving - but with that comes responsibility, we have to learn these new terms, these new approaches, new theories and do all of this within an always evolving world, after all when you are in the realm of social justice, the root of what you do is working with people, and people are…always changing

So that is what we are here to talk about today, the new words, the new theories and new ways to approach these very complex topics.