Amadee Braxton
Amadee Laila Braxton Executive and Life Coach at SEA Transformational Coaching Greater Philadelphia Area.
Activism/Education
Before coming to Dragonfly Partners, Amadee Braxton worked for eight years as Director of Development with Iraq Veterans Against the War. She served on the National Leadership Council of the Black Radical Congress as well as the boards of directors of the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project and BlackStar Film Festival. She is President of Leeway Foundation, which funds women and trans artists who work at the intersection of art and social change.
Amadee received a Bachelor of Arts in Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a graduate certificate from Temple University in Diversity Leadership Training. She is a fundraising trainer certified by the Grassroots Institute of Fundraising Training.
WURD
Bishop Dwayne Royster does show on radio station WURD with Amadee Braxton.
Pennsylvania Stands Up
Amadee Braxton October 30 2020 · Mobilize ·
I will be phone banking this weekend to get out votes in Pennsylvania. You can join me!
I’m attending Pennsylvania Stands Up’s event, “Defeat Trump: Get Out The Vote with PA Stands Up” – sign up now to join me!
"COVID-19 & the Black Community"
On June 2, 2020 2:00 pm, 215 People’s Alliance, the Office of Councilmember Brooks and WURD cohost "COVID-19 & the Black Community: Why Philly Needs a Black Stimulus".
Speakers/Panelists:
- Amadee Braxton (host, WURD) – moderator
- Kendra Brooks (Councilmember At-Large) – focus on Black essential workers’ rights and City budget
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Author, Race for Profit, Assistant Professor, Princeton University) – focus on structural critique/big picture
- Munira Edens and her son (One PA Organizer) –focus on Black parent/student experience/education
- Jennifer Graham (Essential Worker)
- Shelah Mcmillan (Nurse)
- Chenjerai Kumanyika (215 People’s Alliance Steering Committee Member, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University) – focus on impact of austerity on Black communities, defines Black Stimulus
- Rasheedah Phillips (Senior Advocate Resources and Training Attorney, Shriver Center on Poverty Law) –focus on housing, race, and poverty
- Isaiah Thomas (Councilmember At-Large) –focus on Black youth
- Maurice Mitchell (Working Families Party, National Director) –focus on national scale and importance of voting for Black community/tie-in to election day
PSA
In 1991 Amadee Braxton was a member of the Progressive Student Alliance at the University of Pennsylvania. She attended a Penn for Peace meeting with Marissa Boyer and Mayu Okawa.
Film work
Braxton’s first experience in filmmaking was as lead researcher of the Emmy-nominated research team for Louis Massiah’s PBS documentary, W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices (1996). She was an archival researcher on Cheryl Dunye’s groundbreaking feature film, Watermelon Woman (1997); and later directed, co-wrote, and edited the educational health video, Teens On Sex (1998). She is now in the production phase of her own project, Ladies Spin (w.t.), a documentary on women dee-jays. She also is a Segment Producer as well as an Associate Producer for the Haiti Film Project, an independent documentary production on the history of U.S.-Haiti relations due to air on PBS in 2005.
Philadelphia Direct Action Group
In 2000 Amadee Braxton was an organizer with the Philadelphia Direct Action Group.
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Amadee Braxton is a civilian who brings over 18 years of experience in organizational development, non-profit management, and social change organizing to Iraq Veterans Against the War and has been working with us since October 2004. Amadee's main responsibility is fundraising, including grant writing, major donor solicitation, and direct mailings. She had been active in the massive protests against the first Gulf War in the early 90s as a college student.
FRSO
In 2000, Amadee Braxton was a member of the Nationalities Commission of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and an activist with the Black Radical Congress[1].
Rabb connection
Chris Rabb is a friend of Amadee Braxton.