E is for Email #AtoZChallenge
My 2025 A to Z Challenge theme is activism. I’ve been a Black Lives Matter activist for over a decade. I’m not an expert. I do have experience to share and I’m hoping to learn from your experiences, too. We’re all in this together.
Today, I rise to praise the lowly email.
Emails are my most-used tool for activism.
I send emails to individuals for connection or requests or in invitation.
I send emails to small groups to brainstorm and organize meetings, actions, and events.
I send emails to large groups to garner support and attendance to meetings, actions, and events.
In recent days, I used email to organize a lobby day in our state capital. I used email to set up a meeting to figure out a response to the Department of Education’s latest attack on the best methods used by public schools. I responded to a request for information about school board candidates via email. And, more.
Can we change the world with the lowly email? In our times, I can’t imagine that we could change the world without email.