Your Mugshot Moment | Tiara Cooper | TEDxBotham Jean Blvd

This talk discusses past social movements, conflicts, disparities, and barriers that disrupt our lives and communities. Ultimately, these challenges have the potential to serve as an invitation to collective power, hope, and transformation. What can happen when we, as a people, speak out and confront our personal and social issues head-on?" Tiara Cooper is a revolutionary Dallas leader passionate about Transformation, Faith, Justice, and grassroots empowerment. Experiencing a felony conviction as a teen propelled Tiara Cooper into a lifetime mission of Liberation to end mass incarceration, felony disenfranchisement, and dismantle historical systems of white supremacy. She has previously organized with M4BL, Faith in Texas as the Live Free TX Organizer, Texas Organizing Project (TOP), Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce, and Outreach Strategists, enabling her to impact and connect directly with her local community. She is a founding. member of IDOBL coalition (In Defense of Black Lives); She formerly chaired the Live Free Texas; she is an Alumni of Howard University Theology, CUNY Colin Powell Leadership for Emerging Leaders, Racialized Policing, and Justice Reform Cohort– In 2021, she received the Catalyst Award from 2021 Annual Juanita Craft Humanitarian This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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