Our back-to-back workshops in Oakland and Los Angeles on November 20th and 21st generated great engaging discussions and lots of interest in building collaborations across the state.
On November 20th, Glenn Harris, president of the Center for Social Inclusion and Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner in ChangeLab, focused on “Cross-Racial Organizing: necessary strategies for achieving racial equity” and on November 21 Robin Toma, Director, Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, Elena Halpert-Schilt, Assistant Director, Los Angeles Human Relations Commission, and Julie Nelson, Director, Government Alliance on Race and Equity came together to discuss From Hate Crimes to Implicit Institutional Bias and Beyond: Strategies for Achieving Equity.
Working in partnership with event co-sponsors — the California Conference on Equality and Justice, the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, the Alameda County Human Relations Commission, the Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission and the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, the presentations resulted in engaging small group discussions with participants focusing on how human relations organizations, CAHRO, other institutions and community based organizations can work on these topics.
CAHRO will be using the information that came out of the discussions to help build and strengthen strategies that support inclusive human relations across the state.
Elena Halpert-Schilt from the Within our Lifetimes Campaign talking about implicit bias and what to do with it.
Elena Halpert-Schilt from the Within our Lifetimes Campaign talking about implicit bias and what to do with it.
Julie Nelson from the Government Alliance on Race and Equity speaks to the leadership potential for government in work for racial equity.
Scot Nakagawa and Glenn Harris talking about racial equity
The group participating in a “Laying it on the Line” exercise.
Scat Nakagawa (ChangeLab), Susan Christian (San Francisco Human Rights Commission Chairperson) , Glenn Harris (Center for Social Inclusion), and Zoe Polk (San Francisco Human Rights Commission Policy Director)