Join the dialogue

with activist and community organizer JiJi Wong

facilitated by Abigayel Bryce

Wednesday, September 20th

6-7:30pm PST / 9-10:30pm EST

Our next dialogue features activist and community organizer JiJi Wong (they/them) in dialogue with UHRI facilitator Abigayel Bryce (she/they) and you! We’ll explore the question posed by Jiji: While we think of non-profits as inherently philanthropic and overall beneficial, is there something more insidious about them?

The non-profit sector is a trillion dollar industry, with the non profit industrial complex tying non-profits intimately with governments, foundations, and the owning classes. Join the dialogue and share your perspectives on how the system of relationships can cover up more insidious goals and contribute to human rights violations. AND explore how certain community organizations and nonprofits use this knowledge to reduce harm.

About JiJi

As a multiply marginalized Malaysian Chinese person, JiJi (they/them) has a first hand understanding of what it means to be from the Global South living in the imperial core, thus bringing their complex and nuanced understanding of revolutionary struggles. They are an experienced disability justice advocate, transformative justice worker, and general community organizer who has done workshops for all ages from middle schoolers to university students to adults.

As a core member of Xin Sheng Project, a Chinese diasporic collective fighting mis- and dis-information, JiJi has led social media narrative change campaigns and built out the guiding charter to resist the non-profit industrial complex. They are also a founding member of Divine Zine and Think Out of Frame, both anti-imperial publications. At their day job, is a reference librarian straddling the line between social worker and teacher while building information on a microcommunity scale.