Exec Dir, Booker T. Washington Community Service Center | Fmr Dir. Office of Racial Equity for SF | Harlem-raised, SF-made | Opinions my own
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17 Jul 2022
"We need everyone - everywhere. Every person holds power to change their community for the better, and I’m more into leaderships, than leadership. I remember this every day when I’m at Booker T." @ShakSimley 👸🏿🍑👩🏾🌾#knowyourneighbor sfstandard.com/know-your-nei…
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27 Apr 2023
Join @ShakSimley, on 5.8 at 12-1:30pm PST, for a virtual panel about decolonizing the food system. Hosted by @shapeupsf, Shakirah will be in conversation with Dr. Rupa Marya, Esperanza Pallana, and public health dietitian Anjali Prasertong. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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19 Jan 2023
Thank you 🙏🏾 ♥️
18 Jan 2023
Congratulations to @ShakSimley, Executive Director of The Booker T. Washington Community Service Center for being featured in Sun Reporter’s Talented 25!
#FemaleLeaders #FutureIsFemale #WeAreBCOMM
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Shakirah Simley retweeted
24 Jun 2022
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just overturned Roe v. Wade, ending our constitutional right to abortion. We know you may be feeling a lot of things right now — hurt, anger, confusion. Whatever you feel is OK. We’re here with you — and we’ll never stop fighting for you.
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Shakirah Simley retweeted
20 Jan 2022
52 U.S. Senators blocked voting rights legislation.
Some of them tweeted on #MLKDay, while resolutely opposing legislation to prevent states from suppressing the votes of Black, Brown & rural communities.
These Senators invoke a martyr, while castigating his legacy & teachings.
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Shakirah Simley retweeted
28 Dec 2021
EVERYONE'S GOING TO GET IT
🦋IT = vaccines
🦋IT = healthcare
🦋IT = workplace safety
🦋IT = debt cancellation
🦋IT = guaranteed housing
🦋IT = universal basic income
🦋IT = climate adaptation funds
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Shakirah Simley retweeted
There is a rumor circulating that all #EBT benefits balances must be used by 12/31/21. THIS IS NOT TRUE! Your benefits balance rolls over. There's no need to panic or to use all the benefits if you don't want to. If you have questions about your CalFresh benefits: (415) 558-4700.
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How Shakirah Simley went from running a jam company to working in city government to becoming the executive director of SF’s oldest Black-led, Black-serving community center eater.com/22800948/shakirah-…
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3 Dec 2021
We need food folks everywhere, esp in govt & public service! Thx @Eater for the profile - hope it inspires others to follow their hearts to serve others in (& take care themselves) in more ways than one.
"[Food workers] have really great people skills and are system thinkers." — Shakirah Simley on why food workers make great public servants trib.al/1pJ6IUH
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28 Nov 2021
RT @BerniceKing: Quick reminder:
Kindness and justice are not synonymous.
Be kind.
And advocate and work for justice.
Lives depend on…
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Shakirah Simley retweeted
19 Jun 2021
As the @megablacksf #Juneteenth on the Waterfront event wraps up, I managed to get a photo with my friend & organizer @ShakSimley who was the one that invited me in the first place!
She’s one in a million and this city is an infinitely better place because she’s in it 😍😍😍
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Shakirah Simley retweeted
18 Jun 2021
Me: “I got a Juneteenth t-shirt. I’m wearing it.”
Mom: “I got Juneteenth skin. Imma wear that.”
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Shakirah Simley retweeted
19 May 2021
“I am a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre. Two weeks ago, I celebrated my 107th birthday. Today, I’m visiting Washington, DC for the first time in my life. I’m here seeking justice, and I'm asking my country to acknowledge what happened in Tulsa in 1921.”
–Viola Fletcher
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Shakirah Simley retweeted
3 May 2021
Omg the library just reopened & people lined up and were so excited and the library staff gave an ovation when they walked through the door.
Just loving human beings so much right now.
SOUND ON!
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@SFPublicLibrary
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21 Apr 2021
RT @BerniceKing: Dear baby girl Ma’Khia:
Right now, someone is excusing your death for their own reasons.
No excuses.
I believe that you…
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Shakirah Simley retweeted
17 Mar 2021
Our hearts are with the families of the AAPI women slain yesterday. Hatred is infectious and cumulative - it begins w pejoratives about race and evolves into acts of unspeakable violence. We must do more than condemn. Our responsibility is to protect and defend. By word and deed.
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Shakirah Simley retweeted
17 Mar 2021
protect asian women, asian massage parlor employees, asian sex workers, asian nail techs, undocumented asian people, poor asian folks, asian people who don’t have security & networks and who can’t go to the police for protection. we have to protect us.
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Shakirah Simley retweeted
7 Feb 2021
We don’t know how many chances we will get to reverse our democracy’s near-death experience. We must not waste this one. We must go big — the future of democracy demands it. My op-ed in @washingtonpost: washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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