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    Black, Brown & Political:Get Informed, Get Empowered and Change the Game!
    Black, Brown & Political:Get Informed, Get Empowered and Change the Game!
    Black, Brown & Political:Get Informed, Get Empowered and Change the Game!
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    Black, Brown & Political:Get Informed, Get Empowered and Change the Game!

    By Chandra Lopez-Brooks

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    Do you want to sit at the table to be on the menu?In this Book, Black, Brown, and Political Chandra Lopez-Brooks, provides easy to understand tips and resources to navigate your local community government so you can get involved now; and shares stories of local elected officials who take advantage of our non-engagement, techniques to become an influencer and why it's so important for communities of color to become engaged. If you ever wanted to become a: Community InfluencerLeader, Local Elected OfficialCommissionerSchool Board Member Or just create impactful change within your communityThis book is for you!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChandra Lopez-Brooks
    Release dateNov 4, 2017
    ISBN9781370550791
    Black, Brown & Political:Get Informed, Get Empowered and Change the Game!
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    Chandra Lopez-Brooks

    Chandra Lopez Brooks is the President of Building Peaceful Families. In that role, she is the “face” of BPF in the community and the primary media contact. In her professional life, Chandra is the Northern California Staff Director for SEIU-USWW, one of the largest and most active unions in the country representing some of the most vulnerable workers in California. Before SEIU Chandra was the Business and Community Director for San Jose Jobs Corps, a Federal Residential Workforce Educational Program under the Department of Labor. While at Job Corps, Chandra established partnerships with organizations such as Levi Stadium, Smart & Final, Kaiser and The Valley Transportation Authority. In this position, Chandra recruited local Congress members Michael Honda, Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren to join the Friends of Job Corps Caucus, a National Caucus that advises the National Job Corps Association.

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      Black, Brown & Political:Get Informed, Get Empowered and Change the Game! - Chandra Lopez-Brooks

      Black, Brown and Political

      Get Informed, Get Empowered and Change The Game!

      By: Chandra Brooks

      eBOOK EDITION

      Copyright © 2017 by Chandra Brooks

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed Attention: Permissions Coordinator, at the address below.

      Chandra Brooks

      1009 E Capital Expwy

      San Jose, CA 95121 #251

      www.chandra-brooks.com

      Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.

      Black, Brown and Political

      ISBN-13: 978-1977986702

      ISBN-10: 1977986706

      TABLE OF CONTENT

      Introduction

      Dedication

      Chapter 1 - Sit At the Table Or Be On the Menu

      Chapter 2 - Running for Office

      Chapter 3 - Why They Don’t Want Us Active

      Chapter 4 - Easy to Understand Local Government Structure

      Chapter 5 - Change Starts With You

      Chapter 6 - Why It Always Comes Back To Policy

      Chapter 7 - Run Women Run

      Chapter 8 - A Call to Action

      About

      Connect

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to my husband, children and all my mentors and awesome public servants that have shown me how exemplary leaders can make significant positive change within our communities.

      Introduction

      Why I’m writing this book

      Ten years ago, when I started following politics, I quickly figured out that it impacted everything. When I speak about local politics with friends, family, and acquaintances, they have no idea what I’m talking about. They vaguely know who their Mayor is or what he/she does or who their local elected officials were. They have no idea that in local elections they have the opportunity to vote in Judges, District Attorneys, and the Sheriff. This was alarming to me. Communities of color are affected the most by these elected

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