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a diverse network of people changing the world with words: activists, teachers, storytellers, coaches, mental health professionals, writers, poets, librarians, facilitators, performers and more.

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From Our Founder

Our goal is to connect to each other and support the development of language used for liberation, growth, and celebration.

—Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Founder, TLA Network

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The TLA Network exists to support and promote individuals and organizations that use the spoken, written, or sung word as a tool for personal and community transformation.

The Transformative Language Arts Network (TLAN) is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our offerings, organization, and aspirations. Words have the power to question, subvert, and transform limiting cultural narratives as well as reinforce entrenched stories and stereotypes. The TLA Network wants to make clear that we celebrate and uplift conversations across identity and difference, whether rooted in race, religion, social class, ethnicity, disability, health, gender, sexual orientation, age, military service, and other identities. In the past we have responded to a lack of diversity by actively recruiting underrepresented groups to: present and keynote at the Power of Words conference; serve on the TLAN board; teach classes; and contribute to our publications. We will continue to look at ways to incorporate greater access and representation in all of our projects, not just through the power of words but through the specifics of our practices.

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The Transformative Language Arts Network is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization

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