DEI & JUSTICE STEERING COMMITTEE MEETINGS
2024 strategic action steps with the LWVTC Board.
Weds. March 20, 5 - 6:30 pm via Zoom.
DISCUSSION AND ACTION for 3/20/24 meeting:
1. Recap the Feb. 24th performance of “The Untold Story of Women of Color in the League of Women Voter.”
2. Resolution addressing race issues within LVWTC for presentation at Annual Meeting in May 2024. As an outgrowth of the Untold Story performance and facilitated discussion.
3. Develop work plan to implement the Strategic Plan – realizing the goals to strengthen the League’s practices of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice.
Hope you can make it!
"The Untold Story of Women of Color in the League of Women Voters"
February 24, 2024
Performers and Director
Many thanks, with gratitude, to the many people who contributed to making the Untold Story Project event a success. This includes Annie Cubberly (Chair), Angela Jefferson, Michelle Gipson, Janice Holloway, Thelma Jackson, Devi Ogden, Lisa Sandall, Charles Holloway, Nicole Miller, Loretta Seppanen, Carolyn Smith, Kyrian MacMichael, Tanya Smith-Brice, Brenda Paull, Sholonda Aikins, Dawn Young and Deborah Vinsel, Thurston Community Media.
Sponsored by grants from: Nisqually Indian Tribe and LWVWA Education Fund.
In 2024, our work will be focused on sponsoring activities that engage more LWVTC members and apply diversity, equity, and inclusion elements into everything we do via the LWVTC Board’s strategic plan. Help us with next stages and activate your commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in principle and in practice starting in 2024.
Click membership@LWVThurston.org to get the Zoom link… Join us on 3/20/24 at 5:00pm and BE COUNTED!
Get the meeting Zoom link by emailing Membership@LWVthurston.org
Purpose and History of DEI Committee
CHANGE THE DYNAMICS: WHAT’S POWER GOT TO DO WITH IT
When: Saturday, March 16th at 10-12pm (a free lunch will be provided at 12-1pm)
Where: In person at the Lacey Community Meeting Room or via Zoom
Who: Anyone interested in making meaningful social change and cultivating anti-racist community
Join us in this free dialogue to examine and discuss what actions are being taken and could be taken to dismantle or impact systems of unequal power to achieve justice in our community. Please register before March 14th!