Hello everyone! Happy to be here.

Hello everyone! Raquel (she/they) from the HAL team here. Looking forward to our conversation!

Hi all, I am not sure I belong at this meeting, but I am curious to listen in if that's okay. I can't stay long either :( I am Dean of the Honors College and Professor of History at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama

Hey y’all, my name is Farah(they/them pronouns. I’m currently stuffing my face really quick before we officially begin so I apologize for having my screen off. And HI LEORA

Hello Kathy! Greetings from Shaw University in Raleigh.

Hi everyone! My name is Liz (she/her) and I'm a grad student studying with Dr. Anne Parsons from UNC Greensboro. I'm new to HAL sessions and very excited to listen in today!

Hello everyone!!! Happy to be here! my pronouns are she/her and I am looking forward to discussions today

Hi everyone! Here is Desiree (she/her) a fellow for the HAL and a student of Poli-Sci at Rutgers University-Newark

I am a professor of History and Humanities at Shaw University in Raleigh NC. Happy to be here and looking forward to working with everyone.

Hey y’all! My name is Melody (she/her) and I’m a law student in Rutgers Law School and I organize with Brick City Mutual Aid in Newark. Pleasure to meet y’all!

Hey y’all Katt (she/her) educator and community organizer from Newark who centers decolonized workshops on cooperatives and their history

Hi, all. I’m Richard (he/him), the Public Programming and Exhibitions Manager for HAL. Great see to everyone!

And a big hello to everyone from Valerie Ann Johnson (Dean, Arts-Sciences-Humanities) at Shaw University. Glad to see new folks. Pronouns-she, her.

Welcome everyone I'm Liz Sevcenko, Director of HAL. I'm so excited to learn from all of you today

hi everyone! I’m Brenda Flores (she/her) from the Mi Maria mass listening project! Glad to be here with everyone :)

That’s always so magical and witchy— our somatic time. Thank you for making that happen Leora <3

And HAL hub for making sure it happens :))

Hi all, I'm Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan (she/they), public historian at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, working on projects related to poverty/houselessness, oral histories, etc.

Hi everyone! I'm Bryan Ramos Romero, from the Mi Maria project in Puerto Rico. Its a pleasure to meet/see you again!

I have a huge sheet lol

so many surprises from this exercise!! Loved it

Yes, Farah!

I’m so glad Farah!

That moment was your confirmation!

showing humans that we see them and their existence matters to us because if they are ok we collectively are better

Claudia's amazing framing helped me to understand the mutual storytelling in mutual aid storytelling: WeCount tells its own story and history of organizing to the people who come to them, as well as listening to the people's individual stories

My apologies for needing to leave--I have learned so much and look forward to engaging further, and to the next meeting. Thank you for the warm welcome!

Hacking the University--awesome!

Thank you for joining us Kathy!

I have to go but thank you for including me.

so so true

all of this!!!!!

So good to meet you and hear about your work, Renee!

Thank you for joining us Renee!

on my chart i have ...who heals the healers ...regeneration...trauma ...healing....

Yes ^^^ healing circle to allow the healing circle around to everyone — mutual aid projects centering healing and story too— its a practice of articulation for people who are not used to being centered.

Yes Farrah! Healing circles !!

to me true self care deeply involves community care

Yesss @Camille @Leora — healing and community are incredibly intertwined :))

healing= self care + community care/circles

I’m afraid I have to go to prepare for a 3pm mtg—thank you all!

Great to see you, Julia!!

Thank you Julia!

leorafuller@gmail.com

thank you!