Community organizing around issues affecting underprivileged communities
Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end.
Tara Dickman holds an MA in Comparative Politics from New York University, where she worked on the 2005 riots in France and the “jeunes des quartiers” from an international minority rights perspective. Prior to her M.A, she graduated in Information and Communications at Université Paris 8, studied EU cultural and social politics, and attended Brown University on a year-long exchange program on race and urban politics. From 2007 to 2012, she worked for Humanity in Action France, an educational organization whose mission is to inspire, train and connect young leaders interested diversity issues using a historical, comparative and action-based approach. In 2011, she set up the first nation-wide grassroots-lead initiative to address police abuse and racial profiling at the legal, media and political levels. She is the co-founder of Studio Praxis, a consultancy organization specialized in community organizing on diversity, social justice, empowerment and civil rights issues in France.
