{"id":31095,"date":"2023-07-11T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T14:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/?p=31095"},"modified":"2023-07-11T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T14:52:06","slug":"jimmy-rome-ballard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/2023\/07\/11\/jimmy-rome-ballard\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy &#8220;Rome&#8221; Ballard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> California, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Level of Training:<\/strong> (Level I &#8211; 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rome was born in the segregated South and learned about nonviolent direct action as a child. He authored a community-building workshop manual entitled &#8220;Transcommunality-Selling Social Change without Selling Out.&#8221; His collaborative work and exposure to nonprofit organizations such as the East Point Peace Academy, the African American History Committee-AAHC, the Committee for Mexican Culture-CMC, Simba Circle, Barrios Unidos-BU, the Gathering for Justice, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice-CURYJ, and more, has prepared him to face many challenges in this ever-changing world. Rome has cultivated teams of specialized care and service providers at Urban Alchemy, a San Francisco-based organization tasked with caring for our unhoused population, and he has devoted his life to reversing the negative effects of racism, poverty, and trauma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: California, USA Level of Training: (Level I &#8211; 2023) About: Rome was born in the segregated South and learned about nonviolent direct action as a child. He authored a community-building workshop manual entitled &#8220;Transcommunality-Selling Social Change without Selling Out.&#8221; His collaborative work and exposure to nonprofit organizations such as the East Point Peace Academy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4961,"featured_media":31105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[80,212],"tags":[559],"class_list":["post-31095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-participants","category-united-states-california","tag-summer-institute-2023"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31097,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31095\/revisions\/31097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}