2024 PACT Civics Cohort

Dinner, Childcare, and Spanish/Vietnamese Translation Provided | Hybrid Option

The purpose of our PACT Civics Cohort is to provide civic education for members of our community for the purpose of building and sustaining a functional democracy.

This cohort will provide participants with civics education and community organizing tools needed to build power and create change in San José and beyond. In addition to providing practical tools and leadership training, we will create a sense of community, where we can engage diversity of thought and experience across race, gender, sexuality, country of origin, and religious or spiritual beliefs.

This is a collaboration between Only in San José, CreaTV, and PACT - People Acting in Community Together.

Only in San José: The Only in San Jose’s (OSJ) podcast mission is to strategically provide free civic education, that enables, and empowers the people of San José with the knowledge, skills, resources, and confidence to create the change they wish to see in their community. Through collective and strategic civic participation, we can begin to transform the process of community and civic engagement into a high functioning process of strategic problem solving for our most pressing issues.
[ www.onlyinsj.org | IG @onlyinsj ]

Ellina Yin, CEO, Founder: Ellina Yin is a first-gen Cambodian American multidisciplinary artist, civic participation activist, and entrepreneur. They work at the intersection of art, technology, and lawmaking to create and explore new forms of civic participation. As a producer and writer of various podcasts, Ellina threads together art and technology to reimagine the way we practice democracy at a local level. In collaboration with community she co-authored and help with the passage Measure I in San José in 2022, elevating ethics and equity values in City of San José Charter. Most recently in continuation of her work on "Measure I," Ellina worked with the City of San José's Office of Racial Equity to launch the city's first Civics Masterclass in the city's top three languages: English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. As an artist, Ellina creates in honor of their ancestors and the animate world they live in, with a focus on our relationship with the land.
[ www.ellinayin.com | IG @ellinayin ]

PACT, People Acting in Community Together: We are PACT: Diverse, multi-faith community builders who challenge ourselves and all those with power to catalyze a movement to end racial and economic inequalities in Silicon Valley. With a prophetic voice that organizes people to speak truth and justice we demand and create pathways to shared prosperity and a society in which every person lives with dignity and respect.

CreaTV: Our mission is to inspire, educate, and connect San José communities, using media to foster civic engagement. We fulfill our mission by providing the training, tools, and platforms that allow diverse and often underrepresented communities to tell their stories and express their views through digital media.

Host or Publisher PACT - People Acting in Community Together