August 3, 2015 | Read Time: 2 minutes
Trish Tchume, the inaugural director of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, sees every day how technology is redefining the meaning of social change in places such as Ferguson, Mo. In a conversation with The Chronicle as she prepares to leave the organization, the 38-year-old nonprofit leader shared some of her favorite individuals to follow on social media.
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
Trio of grass-roots activists who in 2013 created the Twitter hashtag #BlackLivesMatter
“I think they’re the perfect example of what modern-day social-change work looks like. It’s leaderful, network-based, online, and offline.”
Jay Smooth
Hip-hop scholar and commentator
“He’s been producing the Ill Doctrine web series for years and often gives me clear language for explaining things that are too frustrating or painful to explain.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Writer for The Atlantic
Ms. Tchume and Mr. Coates are nearly the same age, so they have many similar points of reference, Ms. Tchume said. “Deep race and class analysis via lived experience, thorough experience, and an encyclopedic knowledge of history and policy. His autobiography The Beautiful Struggle is one of my top-five all-time favorites.”
Glynn Washington and “Snap Judgment”
The radio host and his program were picked up by NPR in 2010
“It’s thought-provoking and beautifully produced — like This American Life for the rest of America. I listen to it at the end of the day or on the subway.”
Julia Smith
Marketing and communications manager at Interfaith Youth Core
“She has an incredible gift for curating great content from the web on a wide range of topics. She’s also very passionate about connecting good people via social media and promoting other people’s content based on quality rather than Klout,” an app that measures users’ online influence.
Correction: An earlier version of this article included the incorrect picture of Julia Smith.
