{"id":5062478,"date":"2024-02-01T05:16:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T05:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illatinonews.com\/?p=5062478"},"modified":"2024-02-01T05:16:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T05:16:16","slug":"claude-robinson-eliminating-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/illn\/2024\/02\/01\/claude-robinson-eliminating-barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Robinson: Eliminating Barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a society that is becoming increasingly diverse, different communities must come together and find common ground. Black and Latino communities, particularly, have a unique opportunity to collaborate as they face similar challenges and share common experiences. These communities can create a stronger collective voice, fight against systemic injustices, and promote social and economic progress by working together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Onyx Strategic Partners is a multi-disciplinary, purpose-led strategic business consulting firm that, among a laundry list of services &#8211; partners with organizations to implement value-added government and community engagement strategies and full-scale diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Claude Robinson, the Founder and President of Onyx Strategic Partners, was a guest on the program\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cantv.org\/3Questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201c3 Questions With\u2026\u201d<\/a>\u00a0hosted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HugoBalta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hugo Balta<\/a>, publisher of IL Latino News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3 Questions With...Claude Robinson, Onyx Strategic Partners\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7RDY_gm28Wo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We focus on working with smaller non profits who are looking to grow scale, and are doing incredible work, but don&#8217;t have the capacity to navigate between philanthropic, government, corporate,&#8221; said Robinson about how Onyx Strategic Partners seeks to eliminate barriers including communication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robinson was a Multicultural Leadership Academy (MLA) cohort in 2018. The MLA is an initiative by the Latino Policy Forum that, in part, seeks to nurture coalitions between Black and Latino community leaders. &#8220;We never thought about sports being a way of bringing people together,&#8221; Robinson recalled how his classmates reacted to his suggestion of athletics as a bridge builder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A sports enthusiast, one of Robinson&#8217;s heroes is baseball legend Roberto Clemente, revered as one of the greatest athletes and humanitarians of the 20th century. Clemente died in a plane accident during a humanitarian mission to Nicaragua, which he had helped organize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it turns out, baseball brought Robinson&#8217;s attention to a young immigrant boy and his family from Venezuela. &#8220;I was at my 12-year-old son&#8217;s baseball game in Hyde Park,&#8221; said Robinson about the chance meeting in September 2023. Despite a language barrier, the child&#8217;s mother let Robinson know her son&#8217;s desire to play baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve gotten him involved in baseball. He&#8217;s currently in eighth grade at a Chicago public school. The husband has found a job, and they&#8217;re staying in one of the shelters on the South Side,&#8221; Robinson said. Drawing from his experience with the Multicultural Leadership Academy, he is helping the newcomers get much needed resources. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been able to help them get some of the paperwork that they needed completed, a lawyer working with them, and trying to get them an apartment.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robinson said he is committed to the migrant family, &#8220;My family morally and spiritually adopted them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Publisher&#8217;s Notes: the names of the Venezuelan family were deliberately withheld due to their concerns over being undocumented.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201c3 Questions With\u2026\u201d is co-produced by the Latino News Network (LNN) and CAN TV, Chicago\u2019s hub for community-centric news, hyperlocal stories, and educational resources.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You can support stories like this one by donating to IL Latino News,&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=D5V5HHQGENUQL&amp;source=url&amp;ssrt=1702486051205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a society that is becoming increasingly diverse, different communities must come together and find common ground. 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