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Lessons Learned During the S4D’s First Year of Action

By Kibo Ngowi Supporting accountable institutions in all the places we work across the globe is a central aspect of Accountability Lab’s mission. It’s work that has become more critical as democracy and human rights continue to come under threat in multiple regions. For a translocal network like the Lab, this is ultimately a question of sustainability, so we are doing all we can to understand how to proactively manage responses to these challenges. At the ecosystem level, this often means collectively organizing to shift political narratives, and increasing the space to push for more fair, equal and accountable societies. [...]

2023-02-17T08:19:52+00:0014th February 2023|

Introducing our 2022 Integrity Icon Philadelphia winners!

Article originally published in The Philadelphia Citizen  By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy Are you, like me, looking for a reason to find hope amidst what can often seem like the rubble of our public life? Well, I’m happy to say you’ve come to the right place. Because I am here with not one, but five reasons to be inspired.Namely, our 2022 Philadelphia Integrity Icons: Rebecca Lopez Kriss, a deputy commissioner in the City’s Revenue Department Lori Maple Hayes, director of urban forestry Stephanie Ridgeway, Indego community organizer Leah Wood, paraprofessional Lauren Young, director of K-12 math curriculum These are Philadelphia public servants you mostly won’t have [...]

2022-04-08T08:07:08+00:0023rd March 2022|

Integrity Icon Philly Awards Ceremony

We celebrated the public servants named the first-ever heroes of high integrity in Philly—and the country. See why they are role models for all of us. BY JESSICA BLATT PRESS What is Integrity? To the five local heroes we honored on Friday night as the first-ever Integrity Icons in Philadelphia—and the country—it means many things, all of them inspiring. “Integrity is not something you do, it’s who you are,” said Richard Gordon IV, the principal at Paul Robeson High School. Gordon, who was also named Principal of the Year for 2020, shared that his earliest model of integrity was his mother, Cecilia Watkins. In [...]

2021-03-31T13:08:24+00:002nd March 2021|

Who Is Philly’s Integrity Icon?

BY JESSICA BLATT PRESS Remember March? Before the world imploded, back on March 2nd, The Citizen announced the launch of Integrity Icon, a contest in partnership SEAMAAC, WURD Radio, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, and D.C.-based Accountability Lab to name the publicly-paid workers in Philly who show the highest amount of integrity in their jobs. We called for citizens to submit their nominations. Then, we asked a panel of judges to review them, and narrow down the candidates to just five. DO SOMETHING Vote The judges were appointed based on their own levels of integrity. There was Michael O’Bryan, an expert in community [...]

2021-03-31T11:46:08+00:0020th January 2021|

Introducing our 2020 Philadelphia Integrity Icons

Today we are introducing the first five winners of our Integrity Icon Philadelphia campaign! This amazing group of public servants is made up of exemplary men and women working in public health and education supporting different needs for their community. Meet our first winner, Carlos Aponte! Carlos Aponte is a history teacher at One Bright Ray Community High School, a school for over-age and under-credited students, and the president of We Love Philly, a non- profit organization that empowers students with positive community experiences and essential professional skills through mindfulness, volunteerism and entrepreneurship. Carlos believes that integrity means sticking to your [...]

2021-03-31T13:00:56+00:0030th November 2020|
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