Webinar: Storytelling for Advocacy

Join us for a unique WPN webinar geared toward students. Sierra Rogers and Darian Isom from The Mockingbird Society will help young advocates understand how getting involved in policy and using their voices and stories can make a lasting impact. They’ll provide background about The Mockingbird Society, an organization that provides meaningful opportunities for youth across Washington state to participate in the social justice effort to improve the foster care system. They will also outline the process for how legislation gets passed and provide helpful tips and advice on how young people can share their own stories while still protecting themselves, advocate for their communities, and help change lives.

This webinar is geared toward students, but practitioners and support staff are welcome to attend as well!

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Presenters

Sierra Rogers (she/her) currently serves as director of youth programs for The Mockingbird Society, curating youth development and support networks locally and nationally. Sierra was the deputy project administrator for Bitfocus and Clarity Human Services. She assisted King County in its data quality and training in HUD data requirements. For many years, Sierra has committed to ending youth homelessness as a lived expert, including being part of the development and implementation of the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project for the Office of Homeless Youth, and being a part of the Y4Y board. Additionally, she has contributed to helping service providers implement Coordinated Entry, shared understanding of HUD requirements, equitable practices in spaces, disability support services and advocacy, crisis intervention practices, trauma & empathy informed approaches, TA support for agencies to thrive, and dedicated time to legislative advocacy to help support those experiencing homelessness, housing instability and foster care systems.

Sierra was born and raised in the beautiful Evergreen State, living in all corners of Washington. She currently resides in central Washington where she has access to all the state has to offer. In her free time, you can find her in nature or traveling in the company of friends and family.

Darian Isom has been working in the youth homelessness sphere for almost four years in Washington state. In this time, she has worked as a youth advocate at Ryan’s House for Youth in Island County, and has been a member of the Youth for Youth, Y4Y, board with the Office of Homeless Youth. She is the outreach and engagement coordinator at The Mockingbird Society, and previously served as the northern engagement coordinator. Darian has a passion for travelling the state and connecting with community organization in order to learn from lived experts.

Darian is originally from Idaho but has had the joy of living in Washington for the past four years. Currently she resides in the northwest corner of the state and loves to curl up with a good book on those rainy days!