Speaker Spotlight: Alissa Paris

This is Alissa.

Alissa Paris is one of three community leaders you’ll have the opportunity to hear from, learn from and directly support at Power of 100 MSP's Pitchfest 2020. Alissa is a mother, teaching artist, and space-maker who identifies as a queer, Black/latinx/white, cisgender womvn living on the stolen lands of the Anishanaaabeg & Dakhóta peoples (Minneapolis, MN).

In 2014, Alissa co-founded MidWest Mixed, a Minnesota-based organization that supports mixed people and transracial adoptees of color to learn through an intersectional framework, heal racial trauma and build community solidarity in the struggle for equity and justice. MidWest Mixed has functioned for seven years with an all-volunteer team, and Power of 100 is now raising funds to invest in the leadership capacity of MidWest Mixed and support the 3rd biennial MidWest Mixed Conference in Spring 2021.

Pitchfest 2020 is a virtual get-together and activation on December 1 to raise $10,000 in one night for BIPOC-led organizations in the Twin Cities. It’s free to register, but we ask all attendees to be ready to personally donate $100 online to MidWest Mixed or one of the three featured organizations to reach our goal (and because, you know, math! 100 people X $100 dollars = $10,000).

Each year Pitchfest introduces us to inspiring, intersectional non-profit work in our own community, often for the first time. This year we hope to spark conversations for family and friends about the urgency of prioritizing philanthropic support for BIPOC-led organizations now and from now on. Thanks to everyone who is part of the Power of 100 MSP family and who has introduced our events to friends and family near and far so that we continue expanding this community and our impact together. Click here to register today for Pitchfest!