United States Archives - The Average Advocate

June Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days

by Elisa | Jun 17, 2025 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Ethical Fashion, Global Health, Good Charities, Human Rights, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

Want to make doing good easier? Create awareness? Take advantage of the resources out there during the month through June’s themes and advocacy days. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we simply join in with what is already...

Will The Real Woman’s Day Please Stand Up?

by Elisa | Mar 9, 2025 | Global Health, Human Rights, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

Will the REAL Woman’s Day please stand up? I’ve been disappointed by so much of the content I’ve seen on International Woman’s Day for the past few years. Why?

Connecting With and Caring For Diverse Cultures with Dr. Michelle Reyes on Justice Daily S3E2

by Elisa | May 26, 2024 | Adventure, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Justice Daily Interview, Leadership, Love Your Neighbor, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference, Your Voice on Racism | 0 |

How do we connect with and care about diverse cultures, especially when others we know don’t care?

So You Want to Talk About Race?

by Elisa | Feb 12, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Human Rights, Seeking Justice, United States, Your Voice on Racism | 0 |

So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo, has been on my list for a few years, and if I am honest, like most books on racism, it made me feel anxious and uncomfortable to pick up. To my surprise, this book does an...

What is Happening With Migrants Near San Diego?

by Elisa | Oct 4, 2023 | Adventure, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Children-in-Need, Clean Water, Community, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships, Good Charities, Human Rights, Love Your Neighbor, Poverty, Raising Kids, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

What is happening with migrants in San Diego? Are there really outdoor detention camps in Jucumba California for asylum seekers? Here’s what I saw.

Notes From Birmingham Jail & 60th Anniversary of the March

by Elisa | Aug 26, 2023 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Human Rights, Leadership, Seeking Justice, United States, Your Voice on Racism | 0 |

Honestly, I’ve never read more than clips of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s works, even though I’ve talked them up. A major world-changer, Dr. King is mostly known for his “I Have a Dream” speech...

A Road Trip Story: Accepting Kindness When You Rather Give It

by Elisa | Jul 8, 2023 | Adventure, Being World Changers, Community, Family & Relationships, Kindness, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

How to accept kindness when you rather receiving it.

Why Do We Start Caring About Justice?

by Elisa | Apr 29, 2023 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Seeking Justice, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart, United States | 0 |

Why Do you care about justice? Here’s how global missions got me started, how my faith challenged me to care and the why-after-why exercise to help you.

Reframing Welcome With Women of Welcome

by Elisa | Mar 25, 2023 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Giving Back, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Refugees and Immigration, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

What if you are bad at welcoming internationals? Can you reframe your welcome?

How I Used to Fight Human Trafficking vs. How I Fight Human Trafficking Now

by Elisa | Jan 11, 2023 | Being World Changers, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Sex Trafficking, United States, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

I used to fight human trafficking differently than I used to. Here’s how I changed and why.

Spectrum of Belief About Justice Issues: Art of Advocacy

by Elisa | Dec 6, 2022 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Human Rights, Leadership, Safe Spaces, United States | 0 |

Not everyone shares the same beliefs, so using the Spectrum of Belief graph helps us to have healthy conversations about justice that aren’t so black and white.