Who I Am and Why I’m Here
Hi, I’m Grace. I’m a climate attorney that is passionate about healing our country. In 2020 I started the Instagram blog @150.reasons with law school friends to write long-form opinion pieces about the Trump administration. I felt we needed a way to talk to voters that were on the fence about the harm the administration was causing not only marginalized groups, but also them. It’s now 2025, and I’ve learned a lot, but I still have a lot to learn about the most effective forms of communication and how we change the cultural tide and turn our country around for the better. Through this substack, I hope to research and share my findings and thoughts, and develop a plan of action for the midterms and the 2028 presidential election that is grounded in data. But, in the immediate term (i.e. the next year or so), I want to provide a space away from social media to do two things. First, I want to help us stay informed without going crazy with a weekly newsletter recapping events of the week. I’m calling this “Voices in the Sky,” a term used in WWII to describe the broadcast system that would provide soldiers the most pertinent news about incoming attacks. Second, for a host of reasons, I want to provide a space to be in community to take action. This space will be called “Sky Blossoms” which is a term that once referred to paratroopers that would descend from the sky to help the wounded during the fight against fascism in WWII. (Sorry for all of the war analogies, but I just love these terms and the fighter in me that they bring out!). I almost decided against creating this - there are so many people already doing great work. But I personally feel the desire to have accountability partners and a formalized structure to take action with community and don’t really know where to go, so thought I’d create this for now. Then, maybe we can join another org or become an Indivisible chapter. But for now, no need to have the talk and label ourselves anything. Let’s just do something about all of this. Let’s go!
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