On Thursday, September 30th, from 9 am – 5:30 pm, we’re gathering some of the greatest minds in our communities at Los Angeles Trade Tech College’s state-of-the-art culinary facility for an action-oriented 2021 Summer of Equity Conference.
Be a part of the movement. Join us as we strategize and mobilize around the injustices we’re facing in education, health, systems and policies.
Special Guest Speakers
- D’Artagnan Scorza, Ph.D., Executive Director of Racial Equity, Los Angeles County CEO
- Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, 54th Assembly District
- Megan McClaire, Chief Deputy Director of the Los Angeles Department of Public Health (LACDPH).
Health Equity: Building Thriving Communities Panel
- Manal J. Aboleta, Deputy Executive Director of the Prevention Institute
- Dipa Shah-Patel, Director of the County of Los Angeles Public Health
- Nicole Steele, Health Equity Programs Director for the Social Justice Learning Institute
- Heather Fenney Alexander, Co-Executive Director of Community Services Unlimited
Educational Equity: Empowering Through Education Panel
- Charisse Bremond Weaver, President and CEO of Brotherhood Crusade
- Micah Ali, President of the Compton Unified School District Board of Trustees
- Jarett Barrios, the California Community Foundation’s Senior Vice President of Strategic Community & Programmatic Initiatives
- Angela Johnson Peters, Associate Director of Programs and Development of the Social Justice Learning Institute
- Casswell Goodman, Executive Director of BAM Los Angeles
- David Turner P.h.D., Brothers, Sons, Selves (BSS) Coalition Manager with Inner City Struggle
- Youth leaders from Students Deserve
Policy and Advocacy: Shaping Systems and Communities Panel
- Dr. Patricia Brent- Sanco, Director of Equity, Access, and Inclusion for the Lynwood Unified School District
- John Mathews, Senior Deputy for the Los Angeles County Supervisors Office, District 2
- Shane Murphy Goldsmith, President and CEO of Liberty Hill Foundation
- Leslie Cooper Johnson, MSW, ORDM, Interim President/CEO of Community Coalition
- Maria Brenes, Executive Director of Inner City Struggle
- Youth Leaders from Students Deserve
- Kim Watson, Founder and Executive Director of Project Joy
- Chrissie Castro, Chairperson of the LA City and County Native American Indian Commissions
- Veronica Pawlowski, Senior Justice Deputy to Supervisor Sheila Kuehl
