The Office of Civil Rights, City of Seattle, is holding our first ever “Governing for Racial Equity” conference on Friday, January 20th
Please join us for the Governing for Racial Equity Conference - Friday, January 20th, 2012 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at McCaw Hall in Seattle Center (321 Mercer Street).
The day-long event will be an opportunity to deepen your skills in promoting inclusion, diversity and racial justice and to build your institution’s ability to address racial equity.
The conference is a networking opportunity for all government officials and employees in Washington and Oregon.
The event will include plenaries and workshops covering a broad array of topics, including:
- Best practices in addressing institutional racism
- Promoting equity in contracting and hiring practices
- Strategies for inclusive outreach and public engagement for communities of color and immigrants
and refugees
- Applying a racial equity tool to budget and policy
- Creating government partnerships to address racial equity with community, other institutions and
philanthropy
- Measuring and assessing racial equity outcomes
- And much more…
Registration is $50 and includes lunch. $35 for members of the Evergreen Chapter, American Society for Public Administration. For more information or to RSVP go to seattle.gov/rsji or email maria.rodriguez@seattle.gov or call 206-255-7556.
The event is hosted by the City of Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI).
The Race and Social Justice Initiative is a citywide effort to realize the vision of racial equity. The Initiative works within City government and with community leaders to get to the root cause of racial inequity: institutional racism. RSJI is led by the Seattle Office of Civil Rights and an interdepartmental team of City staff. All elected officials in the City of Seattle have endorsed and are promoting RSJI.As part of the City’s commitment to RSJI, City departments develop and implement annual RSJI work plans. City employees also attend RSJI training to learn how to apply racial equity tools to City business. An overview of the Initiative is attached.
