Activism and Advocacy with Cindy Changyit Levin

“Moms in particular make great advocates” - Cindy Changyit Levin

Cynthia (Cindy) Changyit Levin is a mechanical engineer turned activist and global public health advocate. In this episode she explains how motherhood inspired her to leave her corporate career, and well paying job, and find her calling as an activist working on global public health issues. A little over a decade later she is now raising two young activists of her own as well as writing a book and how-to-guide for mothers who wish to go into advocacy.

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Topics discussed in this episode:

Advocacy and activism 

• "Advocacy can be pretty intimidating"
• "My favorite kind of advocacy has to do with relationship building"
• "The average citizen is asking “what can I do?” 
• "I don’t think that disagreement is bad"

Motherhood and raising young activists

• "Motherhood was utterly life changing for me"
• "It has been empowering to add advocate to the titles"
• "Moms in particular make great advocates"

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Blogpost: Advocacy made easy; writing a letter to the editor (link)
• Cindy’s blog on advocacy (link)
• Bread for the World (link)
• Shot at Life (link) 
• Results (link)
• Sunrise Movement (link)
• Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th (link)
• How to talk so your kids will listen, and listen so your kids will talk (link)