The Field Foundation, in partnership with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, announced the 2022 Leaders for a New Chicago cohort.
“Surprise.” “Amazing.” “Fantastic.” “So exciting.” All are words used by some of the 10 recipients of the Field Foundation’s Leaders for a New Chicago award, announced Tuesday by the foundation, in partnership with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
“We were created to expand that network,” she said. “We have more than 200 positive disrupters, people with disabilities representing the diversity of disability, the diversity of Chicago, and we help them lead. I think our opportunity is really around culture change. How do we change people’s understandings, ideas around disability ... and change people’s attitudes and the stigma around it.”
Antonio Gutierrez, strategic coordinator and co-founder of Organized Communities Against Deportations, an organization that defends its communities, challenges the institutions that target and dehumanize them, and builds collective power; Trina Reynolds-Tyler, director of data for Invisible Institute, whose mission is to enhance the capacity of citizens to hold public institutions accountable;
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