Book Event: Raising Change Agents by Nat Nadha Vikitsreth

We are excited to host Nat Nadha Vikitsreth for an event to celebrate the release of Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice in Everyday Parenting. Childcare is provided for this event, if you need childcare for this event, please fill out this form.

Tools and strategies for busy parents seeking to instill social justice values in their children

Raising Change Agents gives parents the tools they need to weave social justice actions into their daily routines, raise socially conscious kids, and address their own triggers and trauma, helping them become more than performative, take a proactive approach, and teach their kids and themselves to live in alignment with their values, even when they feel overwhelmed with the demands of work and homelife. The author's proven framework focuses on breaking the abstract concepts of social justice actions into bite-sized actions that parents can implement throughout the day whether during mealtime, bath time, play, or school drop off.

The book explores how to:

• Raise children to be social change agents by first becoming one
• Practice social justice in daily parenting while promoting a child's development at the same time; each social justice action in this book is linked to developmental psychology
• Take concrete actions to support doing the "heart work" of liberation together for the long haul, because liberation starts at home

Raising Change Agents is an essential read for busy parents who believe in social justice initiatives and want to instill these values in their children but don't yet have the tools and strategies to do so, along with practitioners, therapists, educators, and other professionals who work with children.

Nat Nadha Vikitsreth, LCSW (she/her) is a dot connector, norm agitator, and lover of liberation. Nat works as a nationally award-winning decolonized therapist, a keynote facilitator, a trans rights activist, and a host of the Come Back to Care Podcast. She founded Come Back to Care for anyone who loves and raises children to heal as we get free. Her book, Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice in Everyday Parenting, helps parents make parenting political in practical ways.

Because knowing about oppression doesn’t automatically birth a revolution, Come Back to Care serves as a radical healing and (un)learning space. A space that nurtures experimentation which puts social justice awareness into action. A space that aligns social justice actions with clinical practices. A space that invites you to reclaim your whole self and bring it to our liberatory work.

Rooted in Healing, Transformative, and Disability Justice lineages, Come Back to Care weaves play, embodiment, political education, and spiritual storytelling into experiential teach-ins for families, activists, and care providers raising and loving young children.

Nat believes that when parents and providers alike heal our inner child and internalized oppression wounds in a community, we put fragmented pieces of ourselves together to show up to both parenting and community organizing with our whole selves. Then, we can dismantle systemic oppression and rebuild a culture that's rooted in liberation for our future generations.

Her decolonized pediatric and family mental health approach received a Congressional Commendation read into the Congressional Record by Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, was featured in Chicago’s WGN9, and was awarded the Zero to Three Award for Emerging Leadership and the 2024-2026 Zero to Three Fellowship. Her most recent publications include an academic article in the June 2022 Zero to Three Journal and an op-ed piece in Condé Nast’s Them.

Nat is a graduate of the Erikson Institute’s Social Work Program. She also holds another master’s degree in Infancy & Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Outside of her clinical and psychoeducation work at Come Back to Care, Nat provides political education and healing support to youth organizers around the stolen land of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations (Chicago). To embody joy in radical art making, Nat has performed and headlined premier burlesque shows across the USA and in New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, and Canada.

Accessibility: This event is hosted at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are strongly encouraged for this event. Childcare is provided, but please let us know your childcare needs by filling out this form by Friday, April 3rd. If you need ASL-interpretation, please email [email protected] at least 14 days before the event.

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Women & Children First, 5233 North Clark Street, Chicago, United States

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