Full Network
EJGP's Full Network serves as an opportunity for organizations and individuals to meet and discuss pressing interconnected issues in the region. We alternate quarterly between working meetings, where we discuss what we can do together and how we can improve what we're already doing, and "hot topics" meetings. Our "hot topics" meetings typically feature 1-2 issue-focused advocates and 1-2 community advocates who discuss how their work intersects and how it shows up in the lived experiences of residents in communities that have been and continue to be overburdened and under-resourced. Our meetings are free and open to all, so register below!
upcoming Full Network Meetings
past full network meetings
Visit our YouTube page for recordings of select panel discussions!
Education and Immigrant & Refugee Experiences and Rights
Jaime Martinez, Community Defense Organizer, Casa San Jose
James Fogarty, Executive Director, A+ Schools
Meg Booth, Youth Advocate and Education Specialist, ARYSE
PUblic & community Health
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Iulia Vann, Director, Allegheny County Health Department
Panelists:
Terri Shields, Executive Director JADA House International
Tracey Joiner, Director of Community Health and Support, Neighborhood Resilience Project
Qiyam Ansari, Valley Clean Air Now
Kevin Quisenberry, Litigation Director, Community Justice Project
Voting, Disinformation, and Democracy
Tobias Estes - New Voices for Reproductive Justice
Ruth Quint - board member, League of Women Voters of Pittsburgh
Calum Matheson - Chair, Dept. of Communication, University of Pittsburgh
Malik Bankston - former Executive Director, Kingsley Association
Carl Redwood - Community Advocate and Project Director, Black Worker Center
Meagan Niebler - Community Democracy Program Manager, Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services
Bob Damewood - Regional Housing Legal Services
Lisa Freeman - Freeman Family Farm & Greenhouse
Jo Deming - Pittsburgh Food Policy Council
Jennifer Flanagan - Community Kitchen Pittsburgh
April 2023
Dina "Free" Blackwell - House Manna Faith Community & Homewood Renaissance Association
Nick Cotter - Allegheny County Department of Human Services
Quinten Boose & Tyra Townsend - Neighborhood Resilience Project
Donna Jackson - Larimer Consensus Group (Community Development)
Ariam Ford-Graver - Grounded Strategies (Health)
Dan Sullivan - ACTION Housing (Housing)
December 2022
Ana Hoffman - CMU CREATE Lab
Germaine Patterson - Women for a Healthy Environment
October 2022
Lee Smith - New Voices for Reproductive Justice (Voting Rights)
AUGUST 2022
Brandi Fisher - Alliance for Police Accountability (Public Safety)
June 2022
Cheryl Stephens - Pittsburghers for Public Transit (Transportation)
Rochelle Jackson & Bryn Young - Black Women's Policy Center (Livelihoods)
April 2022
Tiffany Taulton - Hazelwood Initiative (Environment)
Markese Long - Partner 4 Work (Livelihoods)
February 2022
Stephanie Lewis - Remake Learning (Education)
Chef Claudy Pierre - EAT Initiative (Food)
November 2021
Laura Poskin and Randi Vega - Age Friendly Greater Pittsburgh (Aging)
September 2021
Anne Wright - Carnegie Mellon Create Lab (Housing)
Dr. Tracy Conti - UMPC-McKeesport (Health)
July 2021
Richard E. Ashby - Sto-Rox Library (Literacy & Authorship)