Zócalo Public SquareFirstRepair executive director Robin Rue Simmons – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 FirstRepair executive director Robin Rue Simmons https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/09/01/firstrepair-executive-director-robin-rue-simmons/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/09/01/firstrepair-executive-director-robin-rue-simmons/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Fri, 01 Sep 2023 07:01:21 +0000 Jer Xiong https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=137668 Robin Rue Simmons is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit First Repair, which promotes local reparations policies around the country to help Black Americans secure financial redress. Before joining Zócalo at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis for for “Why Isn’t Remembering Enough to Repair?”—the third public program in our two-year events and editorial series, “How Should Societies Remember Their Sins?,” presented in partnership with the Mellon Foundation—she shared stories in the green room about forest bathing, her Double Dutch aspirations, and hip-hop’s 50th anniversary.

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