Ellie 2.0 - Am950 The Progressive Voice Of Minnesota

Block A: Marsha P. Johnson, a founder of the modern transgender human movement and a participant in the Stonewall Riots; Block B: Living as a transgender person in the Trump/Pence America and believing in the other, far larger more welcoming and accepting America.

Block A: Viola Desmond, “Canada’s Rosa Parks”; Block B: Ellie as an advocate for women and on the value to mentoring to girls and young women via Big Sisters.

Block A: Ami Dar, founder of Idealist.com; Block B: How a human connection is incredibly important to spur and inspire idealism.

Block A: Parkland Fla. high school students leading our “leaders” on changing the gun rights conversation; Block B: Ellie as a whistleblower in college.

Block A: Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center; Block B: Ellie’s unexpected acceptance by Mississippians during her South road trip.

Block A: Harvey Milk, LGBTQ idealist who shook the world; Block B: Ellie’s experience with how a Talking Circle empowered humans and revealed “organizational PTSD.”

Ellie Live from Montgomery, Alabama sharing about local civil rights history; how Court Square in Montgomery represents the worst and the best of America.

Block A: The “Tougaloo 9” who sought to desegregate a white Library in 1961; Block B: Ellie’s upcoming Speaking and Listening Road Trip through the South.

Block A: Emmanuel Mehsah, an immigrant hero who died saving others at a time when President Trump maligned those from “*hole countries”; Block B: Ellie’s experience meeting a true inclusionist in Baltimore.

Block A: Jahkil Jackson, a 10-year-old boy who created blessing bags for the homeless; Block B: Meeting another idealist (Julie the Librarian) through Fate.

About me and how I became and Idealist/Morris Dees Story