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Defense & Resilience
The light is on in this Ready House before anything happens. Come in and take what you need.
What Defense & Resilience is
The legal and political conditions around health equity work keep shifting. This is where the tools live, so nobody has to build them alone in the middle of a hard week.
What you will find here
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Everything on this page is yours to take, adapt, and use in your own setting. The legal guide is a reference. The crisis communications checklists are working documents you fill in ahead of time. The notetaker policy tells you how meetings in this community are recorded.
When to reach out
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You do not need a crisis to use this hub. Teams get the most out of it by walking the checklists while things are calm, so the decisions are already made if a call ever comes. If something is happening now, write to the J2 inbox at the bottom of this page and say so plainly.
Who holds this work
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They are in the four lit windows below. Their work shows up here as the guide, the checklists, and the policy, and they are available through the J2 team when a team needs more than a document.
Who is in the house
Shu-Ling Zhao
Defense & Resilience lead
Leads this work across J2, with a focus on security and cybersecurity for teams and the information they hold.
Ruqaiijah Yearby
Legal resilience
Co-author of the J2 Legal Resilience Guide, covering the legal landscape around health equity and structural racism work.
Prashasti Bhatnagar
Legal resilience
Co-author of the guide and of its updates as federal policy continues to change.
Olivia Almagro
Crisis communications
Author of the crisis communications tools in this hub, and available to advise and review team communications.
The reading room
J2 Legal Resilience Guide
Written by Ruqaiijah Yearby and Prashasti Bhatnagar for JUSTICE SQUARED teams. It covers the legal landscape shaping health equity and structural racism work, including what is currently in effect and what has changed. Read it before you need it.
Open the guideThe hook by the door
Two things hang here, ready to lift down. Fill them in while things are quiet and they will do their job when things are not.
Crisis communications checklist, hour by hour
What to do and in what order once something breaks, laid out by the hour. Walk it now so the first hour is not the hour you are deciding who does what.
Open the checklistCrisis communications go bag checklist
The things you want already packed: who speaks, what is approved to say, where the statements live, and who gets the call first. Assemble it once and keep it somewhere you can reach fast.
Open the go bagThe notice by the door
Notetaker policy
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Notetaker policy
As part of a commitment to data security and protecting the people and information in our community, only one notetaker or transcription tool may be active during any JUSTICE SQUARED (J2) meeting, and it must be a WE in the World-approved source. All personal AI notetakers, transcription apps, and recording tools, including personal accounts on platforms like Otter.ai, Fireflies, or Fathom, should be turned off before the meeting begins. If an unrecognized notetaker or bot appears during a meeting, it will be removed. Official notes will be shared with participants after each meeting through established J2 channels. This policy applies to all J2 meetings, including planning calls, webinars, peer sessions, and train-the-trainer sessions.
Current as of February 26, 2026.
Say something early
If a team is facing legal pressure, a media inquiry, a security concern, or anything that feels like it might become one, write to the J2 team. Early is always better than tidy.
Write to the J2 teamj2@weintheworld.org
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Questions of any kind go to j2@weintheworld.org. There is no such thing as a question that is too small.
