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Economic Democracy Advocates Creating Cooperative Solutions to Support Common Needs
With Jacelyn Eckman
Program Synopsis: Jacelyn will talk about the genesis of EDA, and how she first came to learn about Prout, recognizing the natural synergy between the two groups. She’ll provide an overview of EDA’s values, mission and vision and why they’ve chosen to focus on food, water and energy.
EDA members and volunteers work through four main teams: Education, Advocacy, Research and the State Legislative Database Team, which enables them to track legislative action across each of the 50 US states. State and local issues are explored through biocapacity research, education and training, and community and legislative advocacy. The most recent legislative win on water in Texas is serving as an action template that we're adapting to other states and resource needs.
The talk will end with Q&A and a group discussion focusing on the need for collaboration among like-minded individuals, communities and groups. How can we help each other reach our goals in these increasingly troubled times? Coalition building is key.
Jacelyn Eckman served in the U.S. Diplomatic Corps on three continents, developing programs on international trade, intellectual property rights, local and global environmental issues, drug trafficking and other matters of bilateral concern in the countries to which she was posted. Since leaving the Foreign Service, she’s been engaged in political advocacy in Washington D.C. and in her own state.
Jacelyn is one of the founders of Economic Democracy Advocates. She has been engaged from the initial work to create EDA to the present as someone who has remained active in multiple leadership roles within the organization. So, her observations and experience are firsthand and will provide insights into how the vitally important work EDA is engaged in came to be and how it continues in its laudable efforts for needed change.
Jacelyn is also an author, a teacher of the Chinese martial arts, and an avid hiker in the beautiful North Carolina mountains she now calls home.
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