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Panel: Addressing Racism – Strategies for Systemic Change

A week after the 2016 election, activists, policymakers, philanthropic leaders and scholars came together at the Boston Public Library to reflect and strategize how to pursue educational & social justice after Trump’s victory.

 

Speakers included:
  • Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz, Massachusetts State Senate
  • Jocelyn Sargent, Executive Director, Hyams Foundation
  • Rinku Sen, President & Executive Director, Race Forward (Moderator)
  • Ted Shaw, Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill
  • Gabriela Pereira, Student Organizer, YOUNG Coalition
  • John H. Jackson, President & CEO, Schott Foundation

 

Click here to read a recap and see photos