Feminist. Storyteller. Trying to make the world more just. Director of @reentryvoices. Changing narrative with @AntracismCtr. Ida B. Wells is my hero.
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2 Jun 2023
Excited! First publication in @the_emancipator!
31 May 2023
Work requirements have a “long and racist history” stemming from anti-Black ideas with roots in slavery — they have no place in a country that values the welfare of all its people, Nomi Sofer from @AntiracismCtr writes in The Emancipator.
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17 Mar 2023
Are you local to Cambridge, MA? Join us on Sunday 3/19, 4pm for a screening of our award-winning film Voices of Reentry, following by a community conversation with storyteller George Halfkenny, @ThriveMA's Kim Yeasir& film director @NomiSofer. eventbrite.com/e/voices-of-r…
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9 Mar 2023
Honored to be producing antiracist public scholarship in such illustrious company.
9 Mar 2023
Have you seen the amazing work coming out of our Public Scholarship Shop? #PublicScholarshipShop Shoutout to the leadership of @jenbeard7 @ejgraff @NomiSofer for helping to get these pieces written and placed...
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1 Mar 2023
BA, English @BrandeisU; MA & PhD @BUDeptofEnglish. Now: Associate Director of Narrative @AntiracismCtr and director of @ReentryVoices. Previously: a rich and varied career. #Iwasanenglishmajor
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28 Feb 2023
TOMORROW!!! View our award-winning documentary and hear from Voices of Reentry storyteller George Halfkenny, director @NomiSofer and moderator Linda Small of Justice Radio on @WMPG_Radio and Reentry Sisters. #reentry #reentrymatters #documentaryfilm
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9 Feb 2023
Loved working with @ejgraff on this piece, with support from @AntiracismCtr. George Halfkenny is one of the storytellers in the film @ReentryVoices and the co-founder of @ThriveMA. #reentry #reentrymatters
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Nomi Sofer retweeted
19 May 2022
Last night we pre-screened Voices of Reentry with the film's storytellers, all members of @ThriveMA, and what a special night it was! The film will launch soon, and we're planning a series of community conversations this summer and next fall. Stay tuned! #reentrymatters
ALT Screen capture showing eight participants on a Zoom call for a pre-screening of Voices of Reentry, a documentary.
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7 Jan 2022
Today we honor one of the foremothers of Black feminist anthropology. Zora Neale Hurston was born January 7, 1891. An author, an anthropologist, playwright, folklorist and so much more.
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20 Dec 2021
#OTD in 1956, the Montgomery Bus Boycott prevailed, ending racial segregation on the public transit system. A federal ruling upheld the decision in Browder v. Gayle and declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.
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20 Nov 2021
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28 Jul 2021
We're delighted to share that Mapping Child Opportunity has won a 2021 @APDU Data Viz Award. Kudos to the team that built it: @ClemensNoelke, @TheHellerSchool's Nick Huntington, @NomiSofer, and the talented crew at @hyperobjekt.
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16 Jul 2021
Today is the birthday of Ida B. Wells, my spiritual godmother. The NYT once called her a slanderous and nasty-minded mulattress. They can’t defeat your work so they try to defeat your dignity, but that is something over which they have no control. Happy Birthday to a real one.
16 Jul 2021
Today: Third time someone who called me referred to Nikole Hannah-Jones as "the 1619 girl."
The degree to which my reminding them she is a 45 year old woman seems to make no real impression is remarkable.
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7 Jul 2021
Honored to be listed as an author alongside these incredible researchers and advocates for true #equity and inclusion in U.S. social policy. #childrenofimmigrants
7 Jul 2021
Delighted that our paper by @DAcevedoGarcia, @TheHellerSchool's Pamela Joshi & Abigail Waters, @EmilyRuskin & @NomiSofer is included in the outstanding @Health_Affairs special issue "Borders, Immigrants & Health." healthaffairs.org/doi/full/1…
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Nomi Sofer retweeted
3 Jun 2021
We've been busy wrapping filming for the Voices of Reentry mini documentary, coming this fall, and we wanted to lift up some amazing #reentry stories we've encountered along the way. Please RT, share and add your own stories. A short thread (1/4).
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4 Mar 2021
We all need a safe place to live. That's why I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Calling on State Legislators in MA to Prohibit Public Housing Agencies and Landlords from criminal background Checks. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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3 Nov 2020
I vote because it took Joe Ella Moore seven tries before she finally got onto the Prentiss, Mississippi voter rolls in 1965.
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9 Oct 2020
If you want to understand racial disparities in U.S. jails and prisons, look at how they start in the juvenile system.
Black children are only 14% of children under 18.
But 42% of boys and 35% of girls locked up are Black. prisonpolicy.org/reports/you…
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