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2022 Night of Storytelling
On Thursday, April 21, 2022, we hosted our first in-person Night of Storytelling – a night filled with shared stories and conversation with Magnolia Mother’s Trust moms and Kiese Laymon, the award-winning author of Heavy: An American Memoir and several other books and essay. You can watch the livestream of the event below!
2023 Night of Storytelling
On Thursday, April 20, 2023 we hosted our annual Night of Storytelling – a night filled with shared stories and conversation with Magnolia Mother’s Trust moms and Angela Garbes, the award-winning author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change. You can watch a recording of the event below.
2024 Night of Storytelling
On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, we hosted our annual Night of Storytelling – a night filled with shared stories and conversation with Springboard To Opportunities’ mothers and Dwayne Betts, a 2021 MacArthur Fellow and Executive Director of Freedom Reads. You can watch a recording of the evening below!
The Magnolia Mother’s Trust Featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show!
Exciting news! Our CEO, Aisha Nyandoro, and Magnolia Mother’s Trust Recipient, Sequaya Coleman, were featured on an episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show! Watch the full video below!
Aisha’s TED Talk is Here!
“Wealth is about a sense of agency, a sense of freedom, and being able to care for the collective whole.”
Last week, our CEO, Aisha Nyandoro, took to the TEDWomen stage to ask us all if we are brave enough to reimagine what wealth looks like in this country. Through a powerful personal testimony, the stories of Springboard families, and the results of The Magnolia Mother’s Trust, Aisha challenges us all to listen more deeply to the stories of families living in poverty and create new narratives, policies, and systems that can disrupt poverty and actually support families as they build wealth according to their own definition.
We are thrilled to announce that Aisha’s dynamic TED talk has officially been publicly released.
We hope you’ll take some time today to watch it yourself and share it within your own networks, too. Pass it along to 3 more people to watch, and ask them, “What does wealth truly mean to you?” We need to start a conversation about what wealth means in this country, and that starts with us in our communities.
We are grateful to count each of you as a partner on this journey and look forward to continuing to grow this movement of centering family voice and pushing for a trust-based social safety net system alongside each of you.
