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Many Languages One Voice fosters leadership and facilitates community-led initiatives to increase the meaningful inclusion of people in the District of Columbia who do not speak English as their primary language.
View our job openings page for current job and internship opportunities.
View our volunteer page to sign up as a volunteer.
We provide opportunities for engagement through:
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
OUTREACH AND STORY-COLLECTING
PARTNERSHIP-BUILDING & DEVELOPMENT
View our job openings page for current job and internship opportunities.
View our volunteer page to sign up as a volunteer.
We provide opportunities for engagement through:
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
- Health Justice Using an industry-based model, MLOV's health organizing program engages and responds to the needs of workers in industries that have a significant portion of workers who speak English as an additional language and advocates for culturally and linguistically appropriate healthcare.
- Education Justice MLOV's S.M.A.R.T. (Student Multiethnic Action Research Team) program consists of English Language Learner youth in DC Public Schools. The SMART youth work towards quality education for all ELL students a reality, while developing leadership skills that will last them far beyond high school.
- Administering the DC Language Access Coalition, over 40 civil rights and community-based organizations that advocate for increased government compliance with the DC Language Access Act. Member of the Fair Budget Coalition, which advocates for a just and inclusive budget for all DC residents through policy advocacy.
OUTREACH AND STORY-COLLECTING
- Know Your Rights Trainings inform people who speak English as an additional language about their rights to interpretation and translation services under the DC Language Access Act of 2004
- To honor the diversity, history, and experiences of the communities we work with, MLOV documents and shares the often-unheard stories of DC's immigrant communities.
PARTNERSHIP-BUILDING & DEVELOPMENT
- Partnerships with organizations and coalitions that advocate for an inclusive, accessible DC or advance the arts (including the art of language), including All Souls Church, Ayuda, Bloombars, CARECEN, Critical Exposure, Empower DC, La Voz del Barrio, Latino Economic Development Corporation, Language ETC, the Equal Rights Center, Global Language Network, Jobs with Justice, My Sister's Place, Union de Trabajadores, and the Vietnamese American Community Service Center
- Hosting monthly "teach-ins" about social justice with organizations we admire. Past guests have included HEARD DC and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Check out our blog for upcoming events.
