Description taken from CuratedQuestions.com:
Naomi Campbell is Director of the Right Question Institute’s (RQI) Legal Empowerment Program. She is leading their efforts to promote the adoption of the Right Question Strategy in legal practice settings serving low-income communities. She is also a member of the Micro-democracy team, collaborating on RQI’s voter engagement, school-family partnerships, health care, and social services programs.
Naomi has dedicated her career to helping people advocate for themselves and have a voice in decisions that affect them. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was a student attorney in the Immigration and Refugee Clinic, representing women from Central America in their asylum cases, and the Negotiation and Mediation Clinic, focusing on dispute systems design. She was a teaching assistant for Harvard Law School’s Negotiation Workshop for cross-disciplinary negotiation courses.
From 2017 to 2018, Naomi was a legal fellow in Mexico City, where she supported migrant workers in defending their rights as they moved between their home communities in Mexico and their places of work in the United States.
Naomi was admitted to the New York bar in 2018.
In my early days of developing the Curated Questions project, I came across The Right Question Institute and was inspired by the work they have been doing. A shout out to Lynn Borton host of the Choose to Be Curious radio show and podcast, for making the introductions
In this episode, host Ken Woodward is in conversation with Naomi Campbell, and they delve into the transformative power of teaching people to ask questions, highlighting its impact across various fields, including education, legal practice, and healthcare.
Naomi shares her journey from an inquisitive childhood encouraged by her family and school, through law school at Harvard, to her work in Mexico City advocating for migrant workers. The episode emphasizes the importance of questioning as a sophisticated skill that fosters personal agency and enhances democratic participation. Naomi also discusses RQI’s unique methods for teaching this skill and how they support change agents in different communities.
The conversation provides insightful examples of how empowering people to formulate their own questions can lead to meaningful social change and better navigating decision-making systems.
This Curated Questions episode can be found on all major platforms and at CuratedQuestions.com.
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