Everyday Activism: New Lens for Howard County

Program Type:

Community Events, Race, Equity & Inclusion

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

Everyone can do something to dismantle racism. This two-day virtual seminar will help you discover how to break inaction cycles and get involved to make a difference.

Participate in a broad-stroke review of structural racism and bias and a series of reflective activities to answer the question, “What can I do?” New Lens is your formal invitation to get involved and make a meaningful difference through everyday activism.

Seats in this interactive seminar are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please register for one two-day session.  Register with an email address to receive login instructions before the start of the seminar.      

You may also be interested in our Everyday Activism: A Facilitator's Training workshop.

Please share these opportunities with community members from your network interested in racial equity training and whose increased education in these topics would benefit the community.

Each of us plays a critical role in supporting and strengthening our community. We are pleased to support your leadership and service with this training at no charge to you.  We appreciate your commitment to building a better community and look forward to your participation.

Please note: We are working to build inclusive rooms of diverse individuals who are intentional about learning. We are not sharing this opportunity via social media, and thank you for refraining from that as well.

Facilitator: Suzanne Haley

Suzanne Haley inspires soul care and human solidarity through compassionate truth-sharing, awakening empathy, and activating courageous citizenship. She is the Founder & CEO of S. Haley & Associates and Co-founder of Changing the Lens, a community-building movement created to dismantle internalized and systemic racism. She participates with task forces, alliances, committees, and diverse collaborative efforts to inspire, educate, request, and demand equity and justice. She also works with local, regional, national, and international organizations to inspire collective alliances for racial justice and healing through community building. She hopes to stimulate inside-out change that will bridge the gap of indifference and make a difference in the larger worlds of work, faith, community, and society.

Guest Presenter: Justin Morgan

Justin W. Morgan is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Health Policy Research Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His research interests include participatory research and the role of power and politics in shaping health equity. He has worked previously as a research associate in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute and received his B.S. in Public Health from American University. Before university, Justin was raised in Ellicott City and attended Mount Hebron High School.

Contact us at racialequity@hclibrary.org if you need assistance or would like to let us know you are not available at these times but are interested in future opportunities.