{"id":11334,"date":"2011-01-08T04:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11334"},"modified":"2011-01-08T04:49:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T04:49:14","slug":"jen-chau-reflects-on-her-work-as-a-change-maker-for-mixed-race-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11334","title":{"rendered":"Jen Chau Reflects on Her Work as a Change-Maker for Mixed-Race Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jvoices.com\/2008\/12\/03\/jen-chau-reflects-on-her-work-as-a-change-maker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jen Chau Reflects on Her Work as a Change-Maker for Mixed-Race Communities<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jvoices.com\" target=\"_blank\">JVoices.com<br \/>\n<\/a>2008-12-03<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cole Krawitz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jen Chau, founder and director of SWIRL, (and an eagerly anticipated contributor to JVoices) will be presenting this Sunday at Inside the Activists\u2019 Studio (which JVoices is a co-sponsor) on how activism needs a serious make-over, and tools for building a sustainable activist life. We caught up with her before the day\u2019s event to ask her a few questions about her work, the celebration of SWIRL\u2019s 8th Anniversary, and how the Obama campaign raised awareness of mixed-race experiences in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CK: Today you\u2019re celebrating the 8th Anniversary of the organization you started, SWIRL, and it\u2019s continual growth and success as a national multi-ethnic organization that challenges society\u2019s notions of race. Tell us how this all got started, and what it\u2019s like to watch your organization continue to grow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JC: My work with Swirl primarily grew out of a real need for community. Since I had grown up very much between and outside of communities, I was determined to create something for those who had also experienced having \u201cone foot in and one foot out\u201d \u2013 mixed race individuals. Additionally, I decided at the start that Swirl would also serve interracial couples and mixed families. We have always been inclusive of anyone who feels that their experiences challenge this country\u2019s traditional notions of \u201crace,\u201d culture, and identity.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/jvoices.com\/2008\/12\/03\/jen-chau-reflects-on-her-work-as-a-change-maker\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jen Chau Reflects on Her Work as a Change-Maker for Mixed-Race Communities JVoices.com 2008-12-03 Cole Krawitz Jen Chau, founder and director of SWIRL, (and an eagerly anticipated contributor to JVoices) will be presenting this Sunday at Inside the Activists\u2019 Studio (which JVoices is a co-sponsor) on how activism needs a serious make-over, and tools for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20,25],"tags":[5106,2806,5107,5108],"class_list":["post-11334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-women","tag-cole-krawitz","tag-jen-chau","tag-jvoices-com","tag-swirl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}