Non-Compliance w/Roberto Tijerina

The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions to take back to your teams.

In this episode we talk about Non-Compliance with our guest, Roberto Tijerina, Organizer Journeyman/Popular Educator.

Resources from this episode: 

• LGBTQI+ CFO Network
• RoadMap Consulting Resources 
• Movement CFO
• Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC)

Discussion questions to take to your team before tackling non-compliance:

• What is the organizational mission/north star? 
• Is there political agreement around it? 
• Is there political agreement around non-compliance? 
• Have you gamed out consequential scenarios and prepped contingencies?

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Produced by Josh Elstro with Convergence Magazine. Design support from Kimmie David. Music by Tigercat, Sha’s amazing 10-year-old, with polish by Josh.

Guest Speaker

Roberto Tijerina is a queer, Latino, first-generation child of immigrants, organizer and keeper of the heart-space. Since becoming politicized in his early adolescence, Roberto has worked as an organizer connecting his queer, immigrant, multilingual experience to broader racial, economic, and gender justice movements.  His experience includes working for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Highlander Research and Education Center, the Audre Lorde Project, and Southerners on New Ground (SONG).  Learning at the feet of many and by doing the work, he has helped develop a Language Justice framework and lens that are informing current movement work. His political north star has always been the question: “Are you willing to be transformed in the service of the work?”