Jonquilyn Hill

We have a team that's responsible for transportation mutual aid.

We have a team that's responsible, you know, the patrol stuff.

We provided at my son's school rent support for more than 145 families.

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My name is Shannon Gibney and I live in South Minneapolis.

And the name of the group that I organize mutual aid with and through is Minneapolis Families for Public Schools.

Obviously, there was a lot of stuff going on in 2020.

We made little wash stations before we knew that masks were the important things.

And then we helped distribute masks like other people did.

We also had a fund for service worker people that lost their jobs in the pandemic and distributed about $80,000 in the community.

And then Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina.

We snapped into sort of disaster relief mode.

So we got a donated warehouse space and we put out collection boxes at grocery stores and coffee shops and bike shops and everything all around town, sent tons of material up to the mountains, collected funding to help pay for expenses, buy generators, do stuff like that.

The fire was the most horrific thing all of us have experienced in our lives.

And the way the community responded after, I think is what so many of us are dreaming of the world we want to be living in.

We were able to actually create a bus system.

One of the tour buses that normally is, you know, driving tourists around came to us and said, what do you need?

And we were like, actually, like people would call in and say, okay, we have extra, a pallet extra of these diapers.

And somebody would call in and say, oh, I need diapers.