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Experienced Health Policy Strategist | Building Power for Universal Health Care

Lately I’ve been reflecting a lot on my journey to understanding power building. A few years ago I had no clue what power building was. In the early days of our organizational transition to a power building model, I often conflated community engagement with power building. I’m just now really beginning to understand that community engagement is not the same thing as power building. On the surface the two may look alike but over time the differences become clear. Community engagement often involves teaching people how the current system works and how to navigate within that system. But learning how to navigate within an oppressive system is not liberation. And simply teaching people how to navigate within an oppressive system is not power building. #communityorganizing #powerbuilding #communitypower #communityengagement

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