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Tulsa Triumphs – Julie Davis, YWCA Tulsa TulsaPeople Magazine
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Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.
On the first day of January, YWCA Tulsa CEO Julie Davis stood at the podium of the Centennial Year Launch program for the upcoming 100th commemoration of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
She was there to announce the launch of the nonprofit organization’s Tulsa Triumphs initiative, which is a commitment to eliminate racism through pledges to do things like shop local Black businesses or learn more about our city’s past. The mission of eliminating racism is one of the YWCA’s main goals as a nonprofit organization.
Julie joins me on this episode to talk about Tulsa Triumphs and about the tangible ways she and her staff are investing in the Black community as part of their pledge. She also talks about the other ways the nonprofit are working to empower women and help our community flourish.
She joined YWCA as CEO in 2017 and leads an organization that started locally in 1914. Seven years later, after one of the worst race massacres in U.S. history occurred, the YWCA opened a center in north Tulsa to provide shelter, hot meals and job training for young Black women who were forced into homeless after at least 35 city blocks were burned to the ground.
A decade later they helped women and their families during the Great Depression. They have also focused on helping immigrants who arrive in Tulsa looking for a new start in a new land of opportunity by providing citizenship services, legal services and education like English language classes.
Today, that includes the program Flourish Tulsa, which is a partnership between YWCA, TCC, Workforce Tulsa and the City of Tulsa. We feature an article about the program in our February issue and Julie discussed it and more in this zoom conversation recorded in late January.
Julie’s a native of Missouri but has called Tulsa home since attending TU for her masters. We talk about her time in Tulsa and why she’s devoted her career to working for nonprofits, and how being a mom of two girls impacts her work.
I had a great time getting to know Julie and learning more about her and the important work the YWCA is doing in Tulsa. You can learn more about all their programs, including in health and wellness at YWCATulsa.org.
Following that conversation, a new song from Saugeye, which just released their debut album. More on that later.
OK, let’s get this going.
This is Tulsa Talks with Julie Davis.
Saugeye is a Tulsa band named after avid fisherman and band frontman Jared Tyler’s favorite catch, a hybrid blend of the walleye and sauger. The band members describe their sound as hybrid roots music, and you can hear it here with the single “Keystone Lillie.” On January 29th, Horton Records celebrated the release of Saugeye’s self-titled debut, which is now available at HortonRecords.BandCamp.Com. Sidenote, Brian Horton will be our guest on the next episode of Tulsa Talks.
Here is Saugeye’s “Keystone Lillie.”
Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.
On the first day of January, YWCA Tulsa CEO Julie Davis stood at the podium of the Centennial Year Launch program for the upcoming 100th commemoration of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
She was there to announce the launch of the nonprofit organization’s Tulsa Triumphs initiative, which is a commitment to eliminate racism through pledges to do things like shop local Black businesses or learn more about our city’s past. The mission of eliminating racism is one of the YWCA’s main goals as a nonprofit organization.
Julie joins me on this episode to talk about Tulsa Triumphs and about the tangible ways she and her staff are investing in the Black community as part of their pledge. She also talks about the other ways the nonprofit are working to empower women and help our community flourish.
She joined YWCA as CEO in 2017 and leads an organization that started locally in 1914. Seven years later, after one of the worst race massacres in U.S. history occurred, the YWCA opened a center in north Tulsa to provide shelter, hot meals and job training for young Black women who were forced into homeless after at least 35 city blocks were burned to the ground.
A decade later they helped women and their families during the Great Depression. They have also focused on helping immigrants who arrive in Tulsa looking for a new start in a new land of opportunity by providing citizenship services, legal services and education like English language classes.
Today, that includes the program Flourish Tulsa, which is a partnership between YWCA, TCC, Workforce Tulsa and the City of Tulsa. We feature an article about the program in our February issue and Julie discussed it and more in this zoom conversation recorded in late January.
Julie’s a native of Missouri but has called Tulsa home since attending TU for her masters. We talk about her time in Tulsa and why she’s devoted her career to working for nonprofits, and how being a mom of two girls impacts her work.
I had a great time getting to know Julie and learning more about her and the important work the YWCA is doing in Tulsa. You can learn more about all their programs, including in health and wellness at YWCATulsa.org.
Following that conversation, a new song from Saugeye, which just released their debut album. More on that later.
OK, let’s get this going.
This is Tulsa Talks with Julie Davis.
Saugeye is a Tulsa band named after avid fisherman and band frontman Jared Tyler’s favorite catch, a hybrid blend of the walleye and sauger. The band members describe their sound as hybrid roots music, and you can hear it here with the single “Keystone Lillie.” On January 29th, Horton Records celebrated the release of Saugeye’s self-titled debut, which is now available at HortonRecords.BandCamp.Com. Sidenote, Brian Horton will be our guest on the next episode of Tulsa Talks.
Here is Saugeye’s “Keystone Lillie.”
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