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Part 1: Digging Deeper: Redefining Equity in the time of health, economic & racial pandemics 7/23/20
The confluence of pandemics brings into focus the need for regional efforts to move past exploring an equity framework to doing the work to put equity in practice. This first session will ground us in data about the current state of equity in the Bay Area and highlight the need for policies to shift this reality. Leaders from various fields will discuss equity responses to the impacts of COVID-19, both health and economic, and the racial justice uprisings happening in many Bay Area cities and all over the country.
Panelists include:
- Darlene Flynn, Director of Oakland’s Office of Race and Equity
- Shakirah Simley, Director of San Francisco’s Office of Racial Equity.
- Jamila Henderson, Senior Associate, Policy Link
Moderated by: DJ Brookter, Executive Director, Young Community Developers
Part 2: Equity in Practice 7/30/20
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Workforce Development is a system that has contributed to the racial inequities that exist in the U.S., unintentionally and intentionally. This panel will help us understand the roots of systemic racism and oppression, and how we in Workforce Development sustain them. How do we challenge our thinking about the long-term ramifications on the community impacted by our work? How do we take accountability, and hold other leaders accountable, for creating a more equitable economy? We will look at local models anchored in equity designed to change systems.
Panelists:
- Adrienne Kimball, Rubicon Programs
- Joshua Arce, San Francisco Office of Economic Development
- Saidah Leatutufu, HOPESF
- Alison Collins, SFUSD School Board
Moderated by: Sheryl Davis, Director of San Francisco's Human Rights Commission
Part 3: From Equity to Emancipation: Moving Toward Liberatory Economic Advancement 9/15/20
HOPE SF is the nation's first large scale transformation and reparations initiative aimed at creating thriving mixed-income communities without mass displacement of its original residents. This session will take a deeper dive into how HOPE SF is approaching economic mobility and advancement through an antiracist lens. Specifically, we will explore how HOPE SF uses people-centered implementation and data to ensure its Black and Indigenous households experience holistic wealth.
Facilitated by Saidah Leatutufu
Director, Economic Advancement, HOPE SF
Office of Mayor London N. Breed
pART 4: system action: Getting Started and Moving Equity forward 10/8/20
Curious about how Workforce Development Boards are addressing Equity? Come hear how regional and state-level Workforce Development leaders are acknowledging and addressing past and current systemic racial and gender inequities. In this session we will discuss and share:
- Using data to inform equitable policy and practices
- The impact of regulations that fuel inequities
- How the State and regions have leveraged their positions and resources to create new strategies that center racial and gender economic equity including learnings, successes and struggles
Panelists/Presenters include:
- Donna Van Wert, MPA/GCDF, Executive Director, Workforce Development Board of Contra Costa County
- Lazandra Dial, Interim Executive Director, Oakland Workforce Development Board
- Bob Lanter, Executive Director, California Workforce Association
- Gregg Irish, Executive Director, City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board
- Joshua Arce, Director of Workforce Development, San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Moderated by Diane Johnson, PhD, Mmapeu Management Consulting
part 5: community- and worker-centered organizing & advocacy to advance economic equity 12/3/20
To be truly effective, community and worker voice should be the foundation of our ongoing efforts to dismantle inequitable systems and structures. Economic Equity can only be attained through deep and meaningful partnerships among education, workforce development, communities and workers. How do we as Workforce Development Professionals create more economic security and equity driven by community, specifically those who are historically underemployed or lack access to family-sustaining training, education and careers? Come hear from 3 organizations that have had great success organizing and advocating for workforce equity on local, regional and national scales. Outcomes for session participants:
- Be aware of organizing and advocacy efforts that exist. Each participating organization will share individual visions of what equity is and looks like and what organizing and advocacy efforts they have underway that we should contribute to in our efforts to increase equity
- Figure out where to get active - with whom and how
- How to engage and center community and worker needs in your economic equity strategies
Moderator: Darlene Flynn, Director, City of Oakland Race and Equity Department
Participants:
- Yaya Ruiz, National Domestic Worker Alliance
- Janel Bailey, Co-Executive Director, Los Angeles Black Worker Center
- Gwendolyn Brown, Director, Inner City Youth/Young Community Developers