Welcome to the second meeting of the year! Join us as the ACLC discusses projects and campaigns they’re working towards. the ACLC is planning a recap of this year’s session of the FL Legislature. Come hear about the bad, the ugly, and maybe (?) the good from a variety of different movements.
This will be an in-person meeting (with an option to zoom in), with food and drinks beginning at 6 pm. The meeting will take place at the Emmanuel Mennonite Church (1236 NW 18th Ave). Feel free to invite your friends!
For those who wish to attend virtually, please register in advance.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Kai Christmas (pronouns: they/them) is the Regional Organizer for Planned Parenthood of South East and North FL. Kai has worked with Planned Parenthood for five years. They have been in this Regional Organizer position for three years and previously was the Gainesville sex educator. Kai is a 2019 graduate of UF with a Master’s in Health Education and Behavior and is a certified health education specialist. The 2022 legislative session was their third legislative session as an organizer.
- Since the late-1990s, Candi Churchill has been a movement organizer with National Women’s Liberation and NOW, and an early member of the Alachua County Labor Party (the ACLC’s predecessor). As the executive director of United Faculty of Florida, she leads a staff team of 8 serving over 8,500 union members and 34 chapters, who serve over 1 million students in Florida’s colleges and universities.
- Scott Darius is the Executive Director of Florida Voices for Health. Scott graduated from the University of Florida College of Law in May of 2013. He also completed his bachelor’s degree at the University of Florida with a major in political science in 2010. As a law student, he focused on health policy, insurance law, and social justice issues. He began his career in health advocacy in 2012 when he joined Florida CHAIN as a volunteer intern helping with assorted advocacy projects and research assignments. In 2014 Scott officially joined Florida CHAIN’s staff as the Digital and Community Organizer and became an Affordable Care Act Navigator. He eventually became the Advocacy Director where he helped to coordinate the statewide campaign for Medicaid expansion. Scott has always had a passion for health care issues and hopes to be engaged in the process until quality affordable health care is truly available for everyone.
- Lynn Leverty with the League of Women Voters. “I have a Ph.D. from American University in International Relations and, for the first part of my career, I worked in the public sector in the federal government and in state government in Texas. My focus was on refugees and social services until I went to work for Governor Ann Richards (some people may remember her). I worked for Ann for 8 years. I came to Florida in the mid 1900’s as a lecturer in the UF Political Science Department where I taught Politics of Immigration, Women and Politics, and Public Leadership and Ethics and both the grad and undergrad levels. After its creation, I also worked for the Bob Graham Center for Public Service. I retired a couple of years ago and now work with the League and as a Guardian ad Litem.”