| Summary: | This session will guide participants in how to select great mentoring relationships, no matter which side you fall on. Participants will: * Learn practical tools they need to assess whom they should work with * Get tips for how to get started * Learn how to grow and develop a mentorship over time * Hear about the skills and responsibilities of satisfying mentors and rewarding mentees. Rinku Sen is a writer and a political strategist. She has trained thousands of organizers, activists, and agents of social change throughout the world. Rinku has over thirty years' executive experience leading racial justice organizations in the United States. She is currently senior strategist at Race Forward, having formerly served as executive director and as publisher of its award-winning news site, Colorlines. She is also a James O. Gibson Innovation Fellow at PolicyLink. Under Rinku's leadership, Race Forward generated some of the most impactful racial justice successes of recent years, including Drop the I-Word, a campaign for media outlets to stop referring to immigrants as "illegal," resulting in the Associated Press, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and many more outlets changing their practice. Her books Stir It Up and The Accidental American theorize a model of community organizing that integrates a political analysis of race, gender, class, poverty, sexuality, and other systems. Rinku is a key advisor in the philanthropy world and a devoted board member of numerous social justice organizations. She serves on the board of Maven, the largest independent media coalition in North America. Rinku also writes and curates the news at rinkusen.com.
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