National Day of Racial Healing

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Role: Project manager & panel moderator

Responsibilities: Manage grant portfolio, delegate assignments, recruit speakers and participants, and develop event agenda.

About:

Led the National League of Cities’ first National Day of Racial Healing. On this day, individuals, organizations and communities across the U.S. come together to explore their common humanity and build the relationships necessary to create a more just and equitable world. In 2023, I managed the implementation of a two-day celebration in recognition of National Day of Racial Healing in Washington, DC. This event explored how to reconcile the past and proactively promote healing and justice for all. 

Through racial healing, we can forge deep, meaningful relationships, lay the groundwork to transform broken systems, and bridge the divides to transform communities for our children and future generations. Racial healing is not only important, but also essential. Because healing is at the heart of racial equity. 

This convening provided elected leaders with the essential tools needed to:  

  • Understand the importance of acknowledging their city’s racial history.  

  • Apologize to those who have been directly impacted. 

  • Atone for the harm done.  

  • Enact policies that will improve outcomes for all members of your community moving forward. 

Speakers included:

  • Keynote: dr. john powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute, University of California, Berkeley

  • Keynote: Shantha Ready Alonso, Director of Intergovernmental and External Affairs, US Department of the Interior

  • Clarence Anthony, CEO & Executive Director, National League of Cities

  • Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon, Research Scientist, Child Trends

  • Norma Lopez, Executive Director, Orange County Human Relations Commission

  • Gordon Goodwin, Government Alliance on Race and Equity Director, Race Forward

  • Cathy Albisa, Vice President Institutional and Sectoral Change, Race Forward

  • Julie Nelson, Senior Vice President of Programs, Race Forward

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