Voice to Action
Voice to Action
  • Join
  • Act Now
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
Voice to Action

Voice to Action

A Brighter Future for Every Child

  • Join
  • Act Now

Chioma Oruh

January 12, 2021 by

I Am Chioma Oruh

Tanesha's Work.

“There’s a fight on my hands as a Black mother of children with disabilities. And this fight has always been a lonely journey in education.”

Parent Power.

Chioma Mary Oruh is the mother of two children with autism and has a wealth or personal and professional experience in navigating DC’s education and health systems. In her current role as Parent Support Specialist with Advocates for Justice and Education (AJE), Chioma utilizing her experience and knowledge, provides direct services and peer-to-peer emotional support to families of children with special needs and special health care needs. She is a certified instructor in Mental Health First Aid and provides training to help parents build their capacity to advocate.

What's the Big I.D.E.A.?

Family Leadership

The pillar of my institutional knowledge is rooted in the transformative journey to helping system actors become more family-centered in policies and practices. I have a passion for family-centered practices, primarily because of my own lived experiences as an black African immigrant mother raising two young sons with autism

Read Chioma’s writing.

Follow Chioma’s local activism efforts in Washington D.C.

Watch Chioma’s previous broadcasts. What’s the Big I.D.E.A.?

PETITION: Call on Mayor Bowser To Support a Guaranteed Income in D.C.

Far too many families in our nation's capital are struggling to meet their basic needs as extreme income inequality, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow. Call on Mayor Muriel Bowser to address these extreme economic divisions by showing…

ACT NOW

Filed Under: Activist

Copyright © 2023 · voice-to-action on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

[email protected]

  • About
  • Take Action
  • Privacy

Voice to Action is a platform of brightbeam, a network of education activists demanding a better education and a brighter future for every child.

© 2020–2023 brightbeam. All rights reserved.

  • About
  • Act Now