More Than Enough
More Than Enough
Guaranteed Income as a tool to transform people's lives.
Mia Birdsong, Next River
Mia is a pathfinder, writer, and facilitator who steadily engages the leadership and wisdom of people experiencing injustice to chart new visions of American life. She has a gift for making visible and leveraging the brilliance of everyday people so that our collective gifts reach larger spheres of influence, cultural and political change, and create wellbeing for everyone.
Mia is the founding Executive Director of Next River, an institute for practicing the future. Next River moves conversations, culture, and resources to nourish the people and communities whose ways of being, doing, and relating can move us toward a liberated future.
Mia Birdsong's four-part podcast from The Nation explores how a Guaranteed Income might actually transform people's lives.
Mia Birdsong’s work inspires us everyday. From this amazing podcast series with the Nation on why a Guaranteed Income matters, to her current work at Next River: An Institute for Practicing the Future, Mia’s efforts to center human dignity, connectedness, and joy grounds us in the purpose of this work - not just what we hope to achieve, but why it matters.
The More Than Enough podcast series explores not just the idea of guaranteed income, but more importantly, uplifts the voices of those who would benefit most from the policy, with a particular focus on the experiences of Black women. There are so many pearls of wisdom in this series - it is definitely worth your time!
Targeted Universalism
Targeted Universalism
Policy & Practice
john a. powell, Stephen Menendian, Wendy Ake
The Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley advances groundbreaking research, policy, and ideas that examine and remediate the processes of exclusion, marginalization, and structural inequality—what we call othering—in order to build a world based on inclusion, fairness, justice, and care for the earth—what we call belonging.
Targeted Universalism offers an inspiring framework for those who want to reimagine new systems for all, while closing the opportunity gaps that are embedded in today’s systems for many historically marginalized groups.
Targeted Universalism encourages us to dream big about the world we want to build, and set universal goals that apply to all of us, as humans. And then it encourages us to look with clear eyes at the inequities embedded in and reinforced by our current systems, and craft targeted strategies to make sure that all truly means ALL, and that everyone achieves those universal goals.
We’re not only inspired by the framework, but also all the helpful tools that our friends at the Othering and Belonging Institute have published to make the framework actionable.
Check them out below!
