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Online Summit Features Ibram X. Kendi, Alicia Garza, john a. powell, Chesa Boudin, Rhiana Gunn Wright, Manuel Pastor and More

Contact: Bruce Mirken, Greenlining Institute Media Relations Director,  415-846-7758 (cell)

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – As it becomes steadily more apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting Americans of color, The Greenlining Institute’s annual Economic Summit – retooled as an online event available nationwide – brings together an extraordinary list of speakers to examine both the huge challenges posed by the pandemic as well as paths toward a fairer, more inclusive future. The day’s program of speakers, fireside chats and panels will include leading thinkers like How to Be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi, Black Futures Lab founder Alicia Garza and author and professor john. a. powell, as well as elected officials leading the fight for equity, including San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, considered one of the nation’s leading criminal justice reformers, and California Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland).

Discounted tickets as low as $5 are available through May 7, when special Early Bird pricing concludes.

The Summit theme, We the Future, expresses the drive for a nation where all communities can participate in the creation of healthy, thriving, resilient lives. Speakers and discussions will look at a variety of angles, including:

  • Organizing and power-building in the face of increasing racism and threats to the undocumented, incarcerated people and other vulnerable communities;
  • What history can teach us about times of crisis;
  • The impact of government COVID-19 recovery programs on communities of color;
  • The intersection of health and racial equity in the age of COVID-19;
  • The intersection of health, the climate crisis and the pandemic as we work to build a more resilient and inclusive nation; and
  • How to build an antiracist society;

WHAT: Greenlining’s 27th Annual Economic Summit: We the Future, a Virtual Summit on Racial Equity.

WHO: Speakers include:
Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist and founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University
Alicia Garza, Founder, Black Futures Lab
Chesa Boudin, District Attorney, San Francisco
john a. powell, Director, Othering and Belonging Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Rhiana Gunn Wright, Director of Climate Policy, The Roosevelt Institute
Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), California State Assembly
Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California

WHEN: Thursday, May 21, 9:15 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

HOW TO ATTEND: Purchase tickets online and get all the details via our Economic Summit web page.

For News Media: Media are invited to attend without charge. For a complimentary pass, email brucem@greenlining.org

To learn more about The Greenlining Institute, visit www.staging3.greenlining.org.