SPEAKER SERIES
Register to join our next HODG Speaker Series:
Sarah Jackie, Founder & Exec. Director of DemocraShe
Join us to learn how to take the mental health research for brains going through extreme adversity and use it to help us regulate and take action under authoritarianism.
The Training:
Led by Sarah Jakle, Founder & Executive Director of DemocraShe, a nonpartisan nonprofit that empowers historically underserved high school girls to be our future leaders, voters, civically engaged citizens and elected leaders. Leveraging the pioneering curriculum she developed for DemocraShe, Sarah will share how we, as activists, can use self-compassion as a fierce source of strength, combat our inner critic voices, and self-regulate at key moments of inflection when we most need to stand up to the pushback and use our voices. DemocraShe has a radical premise: that we deserve to protect our inner lives in these unprecedented times, and we can borrow from trauma research to help return to our authentic selves faster when we get triggered. Heather Cox Richardson says "Authoritarianism feeds on anger and despair, and we fight it with communities of joy.” Let’s come together in a community that learns practices of joy drawn from brain research and how we can harness these practices to sustain ourselves and make change in the world. Sarah's Background:
Sarah Jakle is the Founder and Executive Director of DemocraShe. Previously, she served as the Get Out The Vote Director for the California National Organization for Women and as the National Outreach Director for Field Team 6, leading efforts in the 2020 election through mobilizing women and innovative voter registration. Prior to politics, Sarah worked in direct service work with the unhoused community dealing with mental illness in Los Angeles. Sarah has a Bachelors from Yale (Phi Beta Kappa), a Masters in Social Work from USC and a Masters in Public Policy from UCLA. She was a Fellow with Obama’s Organizing For Action and a Board Member for Urban Partner Los Angeles. The training will be interactive and last 90 minutes.
HODG Speaker Series:
Sarah Jackie, Founder & Exec. Director of DemocraShe
Join us to learn how to take the mental health research for brains going through extreme adversity and use it to help us regulate and take action under authoritarianism.
Monday, June 2, 2025
7pm - 8pm
ZOOM