The DSM Discovery Group is hosting a virtual event: Racial, Economic, and Environmental Justice: What’s the Connection? on October 21, 2020 from 8:30AM-10:30AM.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." –Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice is like a template; it perpetrates similar dynamics wherever it manifests. It almost always involves a vulnerable or historically disadvantaged community, as well as the use of power. Understanding the intersections is a foundational step in dismantling pervasive systems of injustice. How is this manifested in our current state of race relations, economic disparity, and the destruction of the environment which sustains us?
Join us as Christine Curry, Co-Founder of the Iowa Water Festival, and her team help us grasp the connections and identify practical steps we can take to create systemic, sustainable transformation. Our featured speaker, Omar Muhammad, of Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities, will provide a history of environmental justice.
Christine will be joined by her co-facilitators, Pat Boddy, Stewardship Director, RDG Planning and Design, who will provide us with an update on our community’s River Trails grant. Susan Judkins, Client Development Director, RDG Planning and Design, will update us on the Iowa Climate Assessment.
We will also hear perspectives from community leaders, including:
Jacquie Easley, Director of Diversity, Mercy Medical Center
Renee Hardman, Executive Director, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa
Joe Henry, Political Director of the League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa
Cornelia Butler Flora, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Iowa State University
Isabelle Brace, Co-Executive Director, Youth Alliance for People’s Justice