Promoting CommUNITY: ADULT Racial Equity Speaker Meeting

Join us for the very first meeting of our 2025 educational series, Promoting CommUNITY!

Semester 1, Theme 1: Understanding Racial Equity

During the month of February, we'll unpack what racism really is—how it shows up in everyday life and in bigger systems. We’ll explore things like implicit bias and microaggressions, how they affect people, and simple ways we can all help make a difference. We’ll also break down the difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation, and how we can better respect and honor different cultures.

Speaker Meeting

• DATE: Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1 to 3 p.m. in the Kalapuya Community Room
• SPEAKER: Mo Young, Inclusion and Belonging Consultant; Lane County’s Community Partnership Supervisor
  Mo is a heart-centered, equity-focused advocate devoted to radically transforming spaces and systems that have historically disenfranchised intentionally marginalized groups. In her professional life, Mo works inside of formal systems to transform the nexus of power, uplift, center, and celebrate narratives from folks at the margin. In her community work, Mo is often raising funds, sharing knowledge and resources, organizing donation drives, and helping people find ways to support one another within the capitalist, white supremacist, patriarchal system that we exist in. In her free time, you can find Mo reading, dancing, traveling, finding hats that her cats will tolerate wearing, and spending as much time with her 14-year-old as she is able and allowed to. 

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