Insights
Our guest for this episode of Bottomless Coffee is Aisha Adkins, the new co-executive director of Love Labor Project. This is our second conversation on caregiving. In our first conversation, Rachel Austin gave us an introduction to the needs of the millennial caregiver community and shared some ways that we can show genuine support to the caregivers in our lives.
With Aisha, we dive into the values and experiences that allowed her to see that many historically marginalized people – like Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and members of the LGBTQIA+ community – need culturally competent and/or culturally specific support. We also lean into what motivated Aisha to create the organization Our Turn 2 Care as a means of addressing that gap.
And as an added bonus, Aisha shares some background on how she helped to get funding for caregivers included in President Biden’s American Jobs Plan!
About Aisha:
Aisha Adkins is a sought-after writer, speaker, and consultant who is passionate about building an equitable, inclusive, and comprehensive public health and care infrastructure using media, storytelling, and culture and policy change. She earned her Master’s of Public Administration and Nonprofit Professional certificate on the Nonprofit Management Track with an individual concentration in Public Health and Sociology from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in 2020.
She recently joined Love Labor Project as Co-Executive Director following the merger with Our Turn 2 Care, which will become a sector of LLP continuing OT2C’s mission to connect marginalized millennial caregivers to information, resources, and each other. Aisha is also the Constituency Organizer for Caring Across Generations, organizing family caregivers, older adults, and persons with disabilities to collectively transform the way care is given, received, and viewed in the U.S.
