Biography in Brief
Verda H. Olayinka was inspired to write, (2016) Activating Social Solutions: Essential Keys to Progress, (2nd Ed. 2020) after observing the nationwide “Occupy” and “Black Lives Matter” Movements. She was concerned that folks were demonstrating and returning home to social conditions that were the same as when they left. The book attempts to cultivate another strategy for developing Change Agents and Social Solutions Groups that would meet in a safe space, and work with people they already know, to plan and execute local change projects. Activating Social Solutions... provides the ground work in understanding of the role of the social sciences needed to take place in order to reinforce and ensure focused continued success.