Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice in Everyday Parenting

"The practices in this book will fortify your mind as you unmoor from 500 years of brutality. Then, you will get your reps in and practice liberation with your children until you know it in your bones. Nat creatively weaves ancestral wisdom with liberatory technology to make radical care irresistible. Read this book slowly and let Sister Nat's tenderness ground you in your dignity. Read this book over and over and get more reps in as you build a liberatory infrastructure for our children's children. The moment is now to raise the change agents within you and inside your home so we can co-create a legacy of liberation in community together."
―Dr. Resmaa Menakem, Trauma Specialist and New York Times Bestselling Author of My Grandmother's Hands

“This isn't a self-help book for naval gazing do-gooders; this is for parents who have been pricked by their conscience and called to implement the change they want to see in the world by starting at the root. Nat's heart for wholeness and clinical expertise provides strategic guidance for folks in the trenches of parenting to do just that.”
―Dayna Lynn Nuckolls, The People's Oracle

“Fun and irreverent, practical and accessible, Vikitsreth’s new book is a great guide for parents of young children who are finding themselves overwhelmed by the realities of raising rebels. Do you want to resist capitalism and heal generational trauma alongside your little ones? This is a how-to full of great advice and real world examples.”
―Autumn Brown, Host, How to Survive the End of the World

“Nat Vikitsreth has artfully pushed us all to see how the small moments of caretaking are central and pivotal to building a world beyond structural harm. As longtime participants and documenters of collective struggle, we were comforted and pushed forward by Nat's warm, steadfast commitment to practicing new political possibilities in the intimate spaces of our lives.”
―Daniel Kisslinger and Damon Williams, Cohosts of AirGo

"In Raising Change Agents: Nat Vikitsreth exquisitely provides parents with essential tools and practical actions to bring justice home! This book is a delightful mix of humor, rigor, and love; read and enact this book to ensure your vital work for justice is also happening at home, where the threads of change are being braided together with our children."
―Carla Joy Bergman, Editor of Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy and Co-Author of Joyful Militancy.

"In Raising Change Agents, Vikitsreth offers a transformative guide full of practical tools on how to walk the talk of liberation as parents. Her signature humor, compassion, and wisdom will leave you feeling both understood and inspired!"
―Iris Chen, Author & Founder of Untigering

"Nat Vikitsreth’s work reminds me that liberation in parenting is a daily devotion. Each reflection in these pages carries that rhythm, a drumbeat beneath the words, reminding us that the way we care for our children is also the way we return to a sense of Home. Raising Change Agents moves with a pulse that feels ancient and immediate at once. Nat reminds us that the work of liberation is not measured in progress charts or parenting checklists, but in the quiet moments we choose to be present instead of perform. This book feels like a blessing passed through generations. It’s a remembering that parenting can be a site of healing, that our resistance is also our children’s resilience, and that liberation hums through the ordinary acts of care.”
―Akilah Safiah Richards, Author of Raising Free People

“With her signature compassion and sharp insight, Nat Vikitsreth offers parents and caregivers practical tools for justice-based parenting without guilt or shame. This book will transform the way you parent.”
―Dr. Shelby Kretz, Founder and CEO, Little Justice Leaders

“Raising Change Agents is the action-oriented parenting philosophy guidebook that 21st Century caregivers who are navigating systemic oppression, increasing social isolation, and a hyper mediated world all need. Vikitsreth’s radical praxis of tender intergenerational liberation is what you will experience between these pages as she deftly maps a way forward towards building the socially just futures we all deserve one caregiver-child relationship at a time.”
―Sekile M. Nzinga, PhD, MSW, Author of Lean Semesters: How Higher Education Reproduces Inequity and Editor of Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy

“If you’re eager to divest from supremacy culture but are stuck at home covered in mushed bananas and stale cheerios, Raising Change Agents will show you how to raise the next generation of kind and compassionate leaders. Nat’s book is the map every parent needs to break cycles of generational abuse. It shows us how to balance the need to raise our kids savvy in a harsh world while also teaching them how to reject business as usual and fight for collective liberation.”
―Ashia Ray, Founder of Raising Luminaries

"Nat reminds us that the living room, minivan, and bedtime routine are microcosms of our justice work. This book turns big values into small, doable moves: collaborate, participate, scaffold - so caregivers can practice 'power with' instead of 'power over.' I exhaled reading the book. It is both compass and companion."
―Linda Thai, Trauma Therapist, Educator and Speaker

"Raising Change Agents is a vital and timely resource for caregivers, educators, cultural workers, and anyone committed to raising socially conscious young people in today's complex world."
―Jacinda Bullie, CopFounder, Kuumba Lynx

Transform daily routines into opportunities for raising socially conscious children

“Nat creatively weaves ancestral wisdom with liberatory technology to make radical care irresistible. The moment is now to raise the change agents within you and inside your home so we can co-create a legacy of liberation in community together.”
―DR. RESMAA MENAKEM, Trauma Specialist and New York Times Bestselling Author of My Grandmother’s Hands

“This isn’t a self-help book for naval gazing do-gooders; this is for parents who have been pricked by their conscience and called to implement the change they want to see in the world by starting at the root.”
―DAYNA LYNN NUCKOLLS, The People’s Oracle

“Fun, irreverent, practical, and accessible, Vikitsreth offers a guide for parents of young children who want to raise rebels, resist capitalism, and heal generational trauma.”
―AUTUMN BROWN, Host, How to Survive the End of the World

“Nat has artfully pushed us all to see how the small moments of caretaking build a world beyond structural harm. As longtime documenters of collective struggle, we were comforted and pushed forward by Nat’s warm, steadfast commitment to practicing new political possibilities in the intimate spaces of our lives.”
―DANIEL KISSLINGER and DAMON WILLIAMS, Co-hosts of AirGo