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Who’s the “Bad Guy?” If Your Enemy Is Our Enemy, Support Empower Missouri Financially

I attended a conference with other justice organizers from December 4-6 in Washington, DC, and I have been pondering something that a communications professional said…

Dangers and Opportunities in the 2020 Legislative Session: Our Advocacy for Justice Will Make a Difference

The 2020 Legislative Session begins on Wednesday, January 8, and adjourns on Friday, May 15, with a Legislative Spring Break from March 23 to 27.…

Gearing Up for HIV Modernization in 2020

HIV criminalization is a complex issue. In the time when many of the laws concerning HIV were first established, there was widespread public fear about…

Food security is at stake in 2020

Our core belief around hunger is very, very simple - you cannot have life or liberty or be allowed to pursue happiness if you are…

Breathing New Life into TANF

JMO and I traveled to Washington D.C. October 21-23 to attend the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ (CBPP’s) 2019 TANF Advocate Conference. It was…

Making the most of the conferences you attend

Each year, the months of September and October seem to serve as conference season. In the last 60 days, each staff member from Empower Missouri…

HIV Justice Coalition: Preparing for the Next Chapter – Chloe Owens

On October 26, the Missouri HIV Justice Coalition met for its final strategic planning meeting of the year. Just over half of the group was…

Empower Missouri files public comments for disparate impact rule

Public comment letters are an increasingly effective tool in legislative advocacy at the federal level, with advocates across the country utilizing this format as a…

Highlights from the 23rd Annual United States Conference on AIDS – Kneeshe Parkinson

On September 5th, hundreds of people gathered for the 23rd Annual United States Conference on AIDS (USCA). Themed ‘Ending the Epidemics in Their Memory’, the…

Housing is the Key

Empower Missouri’s Affordable Housing Coalition, a multi-disciplinary team that was formed after our 2018 annual conference, met last week in Columbia to begin articulating clear…