Testimonials
“After LDIR, everything I do I see through a social justice lens. I learned about my responsibility to support others, to develop voice, to speak for those who don’t have a voice. I gained awareness of how much work there is to do. I take every opportunity I have to pass on what I know, [...]
Alumni
LDIR’s family of alumni grows every year. Over 700 people have graduated from LDIR’s 6-month leadership training programs in Los Angeles, California’s Central Valley, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. After their training, our alumni collaborate on community projects, participate in future training programs as facilitators, contribute to LDIR’s work by joining project teams, and have even joined [...]
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LDIR’s History
The Leadership Development in Interethnic Relations (LDIR) Program grows out of a specific moment in the landscape of Los Angeles culture. In the late 1980′s, several community centers and places of worship were vandalized with messages of hate. At each press conference after the attacks, the same group of people came together to speak out against these hate crimes. As this group repeatedly came together, a discussion began to take place about what was really needed to alleviate tensions before they escalated to the level of community attacks. By 1989, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) began thinking seriously about developing a program that would provide individuals with specific skills to address human relations issues. The first LDIR class, anchored by one APALC staff person, started in 1991 and graduated the first LDIR participants a few weeks after the Los Angeles 1992 civil unrest. While the first class was conducted solely by APALC, after the graduation the League...
News & Updates
LDIR meets with visitors from Serbia to share learnings and resources.
Carmen Morgan, Lesly Gonzalez, and Goldie Buchanan meeting representatives from minority groups in Serbia On Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 LDIR Program Director, Carmen Morgan along with Lesly González, Youth Programs Coordinator and J. Ileto Hate Crimes Prevention Fellow and Goldie Buchanan, Manager of the Parent Organization Network, met with members of a delegation from Serbia. The delegation represented the various minority populations of Serbia: Mr. Galip Beciri, president...
LDIR Welcomes Povi-Tamu, Shaimaa, and Vanessa to the LDIR Team!!!
LDIR has some new folks to welcome to the LDIR community, and/or familiar faces moving into new roles: Povi-Tamu Bryant Povi-Tamu (pronounced Pahvee-Tamoo) comes to LDIR with a commitment to community work and community health issues. Most recently she has facilitated community workshops with both INCITE!LA and Freedom Schools LA. In addition, she is a former Teaching Assistant with Neighborhood Schools, a program in Chicago public schools where she worked with ESL students. She...
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Welcome Antoinette Reyes!
The LDIR team is excited to welcome Antoinette Reyes as our new Community-based Program Coordinator! Antoinette comes to the LDIR program with significant and varied experience. Most recently as a Researcher with PowerPAC, Antoinette conducted research to examine whether health and human services stimulus funds were being equitably distributed in communities of color. Before her work with PowerPAC, Antoinette was a Program Coordinator for Asian Pacific Health Care Venture where she developed...
APALC, MALDEF, AARC collaborate on district mapping
LDIR is always proud to be sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), a member of Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, and we’re excited to share news about one of APALC’s recent projects. APALC, which is the statewide anchor for the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans for Fair Redistricting, collaborated with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), and the African American Redistricting Collaborative (AARC) to propose new...
LDIRs in Health 2011 & LDIR’s 20th Anniversary
This year, the LDIR program is celebrating its 20th anniversary of facilitating movement building. Since 1991, LDIR has worked to raise consciousness, promote collaboration and power sharing, and provide practical skills and tools for effective strategies for social change. LDIR is based in Los Angeles, but has partnered with communities in Flint, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Merced, California to share LDIR’s community-centered approach to grassroots organizing for...
