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Date: March 16 from 11:30 – 2:00 - Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Casey Family Program Field Office
1123 23rd Avenue, Seattle
Hosted by:
Leadership Learning Community
Casey Family Programs
Minority Executive Directors Coalition
Non-Profit Anti-Racism Coalition
Center for Ethical Leadership

Description:

The Leadership Learning Community, a national organization located in Oakland California, launched a collaborative learning initiative called Leadership for a New Era (LNE). This initiative includes a diverse group of partners who believe that we need to radically expand the ways in which we think about and develop leadership to become more inclusive, networked and collective. This change will be critical to breakthroughs needed to realize social and racial equity.
The first draft on Leadership and Race was posted to LNE’s collaborative workspace and is being edited by partners who have contributed their work to the summary. Over 45 people gathered in the Bay Area for an LLC Circle meeting to discuss this work and decided to continue meeting. We are inviting you to join us in bringing this conversation to the Puget Sound to see how we can bring a racial lens tot our work. The summary addresses the following questions:

• Does current leadership thinking and practice contribute to structural racism?
• Why are leadership strategies vital to achieving racial justice?
• What leadership development approaches support racial equity?
• What changes in our evaluation work will support racial equity?
  

Meeting Notes:

Open Space Notes:

Undoing White Dominant Professional Culture at the Leadership Level

Participants: Shaerelle Owens, Tara Conner, Julie Nelson, Tim Oglesby, Mardo
Adeir, Lonnie Glenn Puckett, Lillian, Karma, Sandy

There is a lack of awareness, mostly among white people, and the baggage that they (we) bring to conversation around ending institutional racism. How do we bring this awareness when we are who we are? We are trying to overcome group think and the outliers are not treated as credible. How can we address organizational structure which is the way it is because of financial purposes and facing a powerful status quo, i.e. that's the way its always been.

We need to develop leaders of color, but what about the need for leaders of color to succeed within white culture? A significant portion of professional culture is racist. There is a large reaction to fear and economics. Whites never had to live in any other culture the way people of color have had to live in white culture. Its difficult to have honest conversations about power.

What we can do:

• Find out and be open about what your values are
• Use story
• Become more aware of our assumptions and what we assume to be true. Name our assumptions
• Its important to start by acknowledging that we are not where we want to be, instead of focusing on everything that is wrong, start with where we want to be.
• When we need to realize that we bring in people of color or clients to a different way of doing things, we often fail them and then blame the "the other" and not ourselves.
• Working in isolation at leadership levels insulates leaders from positively influenced or inspired to do "the work" be peers in community.

Collective Leadership

Participants: Greg, Donita, Ellia

Systemic Structures:
Collective leadership is not just about leaders, but also people impacted by the system. Collective Leadership brings different people to the table.
Its important to analyze the system before a crisis occurs, (e.g. subprime). Its easy to come up with a solution, but what will the impact be? It should be possible to come up witt a formula common to all policy situations that collective leadership can use. e.g.


Participants: Cheryl, Dan, Joe, Cedric, Ruthann

Key points and Insights:

• Just make a commitment to do it
• Get a couple of champions
• Make the ??? directly to ??? and how it affects our ability
  
• Use consultant who work to help the board work together and bring the community to the table. Let your champion do this.
• You will not build a diverse board or keep people of color unless you do the above work.
• Recognizing this is integral to the board's work and it is an ongoing journey
• Incorporate into board meetings/activities.
• Board members may not have much experience in diverse communities
  

Recommendations: Focused mostly on the board during the session.

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Suggestion...just do it!

At the "table" on the topic of Racism and Leadership: Who is Missing?

Participants: Shomari, Joines, irenee, Oriana, Amy Fitzgerald, Carie

Key Points:
Talk and Strategies: Passing on to new leaders.
People of color vs white allies
Why don't we get people of color on the leaders team
Many are missing from the table

Youth
SRs (wealth of knowledge)
Immigrants and refugees
Vietnam
Ethiopia

Those who have been muted
people who have been waiting
inviting people
those with 'fixed schedules (high ups usually have more flexibility)
people with disabilities
non formally educated

The concept of table is intimidating and we need to find a different way to present this.

How can we get to the people who are missing?

• ask them what is most conducive environment for engagement
• enthusiastic topic
• basic training on issues
• plan events with what makes you feel welcome
• expanding invitations
• reducing literature
• diminish theoretical and make it practical
• practical case study just with this group
• who did not get an invite
• don't duplicate work

How to increase Board Diversity without Tokenism

Participants: Jane, Lauren, Rick, Jake, Kisha,

Key Points:

• Developing a community takes longer than just 1 board member
• Board anit-racism training would make environment more hospitable for a person of color
• Passion first, then what individual board members represent
• Seems to e systematic avoidance of VIR trainings
• Self-examination and acceptance of "whiteness" and talk about that, e.e. next 3 board meetings are about exploring "whiteness". Horno who we are.
• process of engagement is at times gradual better if its fum and accepting. "I'm not interested in undoing"
• How do you want to engage in the is work of inclusion and community.

Participants

First Name	Last Name	Organization Name
Bill	Aal	Tools for Change
Margo	Adair	Tools for Change
Evelyn	Allen	Catholic Community Services of Western WA
Karen	Aoyama	Camp Fire USA
Elaine	Bacon	Camp Fire USA
Jake	Beattie	Bike Works
Vicki	Burr-Chellin	Wellspring Family Services
Cynthia	Cantrill	Wellspring Family Services
Judy	Chen	Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Cheryl	Cobbs	Solid Ground
Tara	Connor	Plymouth Housing Group
Cedric	Davis	Casey Family Programs
Sungea	Dawson	Solid Ground
Ngoc	Do	Camp Fire USA
Greg	Eckerman	Plymouth Housing Group
Dorry	Elias-Garcia	Minority Executive Directors Coalition
Roger	Erskine
Oriana	Estrada	Child Care Resources
Amy	FitzGerald	Plymouth Housing Group
Kathryn	Flores	Child Care Resources
Janet	Frieling	School's Out Washington
Megan	Gibbard	University Street Ministry
Michelle	Gislason	CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
Tracey	Groscost
Donta	Harper	Washington State Department of Corrections
Lee	Harper	Phinney Neighborhood Center
Glenn	Harris	SOCR
Shawli	Hathaway	YMCA Young Adult Services
Dee	Hillis	Solid Ground
Lillian	Hochstein	Wellspring Family Services
Fred	Holt	University of Washington
Benita	Horn
Paula L	Houston	YMCA of Greater Seattle
Ruthann	Howell	Wellspring Family Services
Jackie	Jainga Hyllseth	School's Out Washington
Henry	Jenkins	YMCA of Greater Seattle
Shamari	Jones	YMCA of Greater Seattle
Sandra	Kellar	University of Washington (PCAP)
Dan	Leahy
Theressa	Lenear	Child Care Resources
Sandy	Lowe	Wellspring Family Services
Noha	Mahgoub	YMCA Young Adult Services
Deb	Meehan	Leadership Learning
Karleasa	Mitchell
Julie	Nelson	Seattle Office for Civil Rights
Dale	Nienow	Center for Ethical Leadership
Yuh-line	Niou	Statewide Poverty Action Network
Tera	Oglesby	Solid Ground
Mary	Olsen	Camp Fire USA
Sherelle	Owens	United Way of King County
Kisha	Palmer	Forest Ridge School
Fredricka	Pie
Laura	Pierce
Glenn	Puckett	Solid Ground
Yvonne	Redding-White	United Way of King County
Karma	Ruder	Center for Ethical Leadership
Ellia	Ryan	The Potential Center
Lourdes Portillo	Salazar	City of Bellevue
Tandra	Schwamberg	City of Bellevue
Joanne	Scott	City of Seattle
Brigitte	Smith	YMCA Young Adult Services
Bev	Spears	Statewide Poverty Action Network
Julia	Sterkovsky	Seattle Human Services Coalition
Anna	Strahan	Solid Ground
Lonnie	Taylor	DOC
Rick	Taylor	Camp Fire USA
Lauren	Thomas	Wellspring Family Services
Carmita	Velasquez
Virginia	Weihs	Seattle/King County Coalition for the Homeless
Allison	Wherry	YMCA Young Adult Services
Jane	White-Vulliet	Camp Fire USA
Irene	Woo	Solid Ground
Terrie	Yaffe	Child Care Resources
Jim	Yearby	United Way of King County
Anh	Vo
Indiigo	Klyne	Solid Ground
Jennifer	Berry	D O R S E Y & W H I T N E Y LLP
Jennifer	Bowman	NELA Center for Student Success
Louis	Mendoza	United Way
Jessica	Jones	City Club
Laurie	Bohm	Community Schools Collaboration
Harry	Hoffman	Housing Development Consortium Seattle - King County
Susan	Bean	Camp Fire USA