 Well, welcome everyone If if you can please just take a seat I'd like to just to start off the event. I'd like to invite Nathan Elstrad and Gloria Partita to just give some welcoming remarks Welcome to the third annual break in the silence Put on by the David the city of Davis Human Relations Commission. I'm Gloria Partita and I'm commissioner on the human relations and We I'm going to turn this over to Nathan because he really knows the history of this event and But I'd also like to say thank you to my fellow commissioners and to Kelly. Where's Kelly is she? There she is. She's in the back Who have put a lot of work into this and we're really hoping? that People will take something away from this and That you will feel like your voices are being heard today And I'm Nathan Elstrad. Thank you so much for coming. So I'm also a commissioner on the city of Davis Human Relations Commission And so just to give a brief history of this event. So why does this event exist? So this is the third annual breaking the silence the first took place in 2012 following the discovery of a noose at Davis High School So the community got together and wanted to respond to that incident And as a result that brought about the first breaking the silence We had over 200 people at that first event and it was quite the success Really focused on providing a forum for the community and almost a sense of a reverse panel Having the community speak towards representatives of institutions We did the second year we did that was in 2013 in 2013 We changed the format a bit really focusing a little more on community organizations as well And so this year we wanted to do that once more So as you saw from 1 to 130 was that opportunity to see community organizations are really working towards social justice here in Davis and the community at large and then We will have This forum right now from 130 to 3 so we're gonna provide Opportunity as Ori will say in a second for the panel to say a bit and then we'll open up to all of you So thank you very much for coming and appreciate having you here Thank you. So welcome everyone for joining us this afternoon for this Community conversation My name is or eight Kalman and I'm one of the founders and executive director of the Yolo conflict resolution Center It's a new organization that promote Safe conversations and conflict resolution practices Before we start today just in terms of logistics If you brought your cell phone if you could silence it so we can really focus on each other as a community Also at the back. We have Maria. So if you need a translation Assistance she's in the back Ready to help out All right So I have to say first that We're kind of the new kid on the block and new organization and I'm quite humble to be invited to Facilitate this conversation today But I really want to highlight some of the organizations that are already doing a lot of good work in the community So if you had a chance if you were here early, you had a chance to walk around I Want to highlight the organization and the representatives here because as we come here and share our Experiences and our stories. It's also important to remember that there's a lot of good work also people are really doing good work here and If there opportunity if you have a particular passion for something It's an opportunity to connect with those organization and I encourage you to speak to the Representative here, so we I'm just going to call out the organization if you don't mind just standing up so everybody can see who you are we have Helen Rowland from the celebration of Abraham Thank you We have Gloria Partita from the Davis Phoenix coalition Frankie Jay Woods from Future Development Youth Center Thank you Alexander Lee Jobes from Uniting for Racial Justice at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis We have Elia Garcia one of our founding and board member at Yolo Conflict Resolution Center And we have Isaiah Jurado and Betsy Thomas from the culture co-op So thank you all for being here and representing your organization and Please at the end of the event if you have a chance go and speak with these people who are already doing great work in our community So as I said, I'm grateful to be able to facilitate. I Want to make sure Kelly were she Yes, want to give you a thank you and to the human relation commissioner Commissioners Nathan Elstrand, Leanne Friedman, Gloria Partita and Yvonne Clinton who helped put this event together And thank you for the panelists for being here and providing your organization perspective and for being witness to our conversation today also, I want to Let you know we have Allison Kant in the back And she will be recording our stories today and we look forward to opportunities to Following the event to showcase Some of the stories and and what we're creating here We're here for just an hour and a half and it'll be wonderful if Community members were unable to be here today are still getting A glimpse into what we're doing today. So thank you Allison for being here and for the beautiful work of art so in our conflict resolution services we We're really based on restorative practices and principles and we emphasize people's Capacity to affect change through dialogue and share Understanding and so the ideas are always that a conversation is when people get to share their own stories and when we share stories together We really expand our understanding and the lenses through which we see things and Only when we do that when we have a shared story as a community Can we move forward and make change and make a difference and so I really think of this Conversation as a very restorative practice because we are coming as a community To share stories to have a better shared understanding of who we are as a community and give us the opportunity then to move forward So this is the third year that the community is invited for this conversation and as you mentioned Nathan It started with racism and this year. We're really expanding the focus of the conversation so the topic is Discrimination Hate-related activities and indifference and so this is an opportunity to really Embrace all people of our community as we have a conversation Coming up here and speaking can be sometimes intimidating. We're talking about personal stories We become very vulnerable when we open up like that But it is a gift to all of us so I encourage all of you as we Open it up for conversation and for sharing that you'd be generous with your life stories and share them with us So we can all learn together We say in conflict resolution that when you walk through the door, this is your first step in a process You may not feel ready to come and speak up but coming in here is a is that commitment that you think that you're making to your Community that this is an important conversation. So before we get going with the event itself Why don't we spend just a few minutes turn to someone sitting next to you? Introduce yourself. Let them know why you're here. What are your hopes for the next hour and a half and then we'll reconvene Just expect there are very bad So I missed some of the organizations if you could just give them the order that you gave them So I have Here here Listed thank you Oh Oh Did you have a chance to talk with them? Oh, yeah Okay So myself It's hard to start a conversation and and have to end it within few few minutes So the nice thing about having these little conversation is right away You can feel the energy in the room rise up this this Instant connection when you turn to someone and and you share who you are in your story So just to give you a sense of what we're going to do today. We have until three o'clock for this event and We have here just kind of a an outline of what we're going to do so we're going to start with our panel presentation and going to give a chance to each panel member i'll introduce them and Give them a chance to give their organization or perspective And then we'll invite the community to come up and share stories We'll give you some prompts for things to talk about and I'll discuss a little bit more What the sharing is going to look like And then we're going to follow up the last 15 minutes where we're going to ask the panel then to Come back and and kind of give a collective response to what they've heard So because we don't have a lot of time I've asked the panel to just hold off with responses until the end so we can get as many people to Speak up and and share before three o'clock And then what we'll do at three o'clock is we're going to break for 10 minutes and the program will end I encourage you to fill out evaluations This is an annual event So we'd like to hear what you think of the event how we can improve so Fill out an evaluation maybe visit again with the organization And then those who wish to stay and continue in a more informal conversations are invited to stay here for Another hour until four o'clock and we will continue a conversation As as as Community members like to do So that's that's kind of the flow of What we're going to do today Before I introduce the the panelist I just wanted to let you know what is the question that we had asked the panelists to Respond to we asked them What specific action has your agency organization Taken in the last year to address community issues related to indifference discrimination and violence based upon hate and i'm going to Start with On this side and and we'll work our way Each one has about three to five minutes to share their perspective And we'll start with Daryl Patel assistant chief of police the davis police department Thank you for being here. Thank you All right Yeah, i'm darin pytel i'm the assistant chief davis police department And i've been with the police department since 1987 and worked a variety of assignments So thank you for having me here today You know on the issue of hate crimes In some cases the the police department. It's kind of obvious what it is that we do We're often the the first stop that When hate incidents or crimes do occur in davis people call us and you know, they expect a a complete and thorough investigation And we actually do that So the standard protocol anytime somebody calls in with any kind of a discrimination hate crime case The investigations lieutenant is immediately notified. So even though a patrol officer may be the initial responding person they're actually required to call The investigations lieutenant one of the administrators And then a announcement goes out to the rest of the administrative team And we do that so that we ensure that we Dedicate adequate resources to investigate the crime Oftentimes it's really important that the initial response We do a real good job of of getting information from victims at witnesses to neighborhood canvases Make sure that we collect any kind of physical evidence But oftentimes time is of the essence in order to make sure that we we get everything that is we need to do that criminal investigation And then we follow that up with Notification to our community and we think that it's real important that when we do have incident of discrimination or of hate that we actually do Notice the community of what's going on. Don't try to hide it. Don't try to sweep it underneath the rug But make sure that that everybody knows what's going on And we do that for a variety of reasons one so that if anybody does that information about What occurred and uh, you know or starts hearing things know what the the days of facebook Sometimes information is out there pretty quick But oftentimes we want to make sure that that we Get the information back to us that we can proceed with an investigation. Look at all avenues We also think it's real important that the community take an active stand against hate and discrimination And the community has to know that it occurs in order to take that active stand You'll notice that the the recent incidents of of hate crimes The community was really quick to respond They were really quick to denounce what occurred And we think that that's real important in sending a message that it's not going to be tolerated here and we don't want it here So In short, that's kind of uh, what we do with the hate crimes and discrimination and then secondly, let's face it and uh Some communities the police are also a flashpoint for claims of discrimination and we can't ignore that And so you asked what what's different or what we've been working on um back in and we just recently announced a A new conflict resolution program with the the police department. So a little bit of history on that Back in 2013, uh, the human relations commission appointed a subcommittee and then got several community In some cases activists are just long-standing community members to come in and work with five police department employees and address the issue of how is it that we coin we can build trust with various segments of the community sometimes uh minority and sometimes Um, just people that have had some negative experiences with the police department we work through about a year process of identifying ways that we could Work better with the community everything from doing informal coffees to hosting larger community meetings And making sure that that we do discuss areas of conflict when they arise And we can do that and probably the best time to do it is following national incidents or statewide incidents that Create a concern with law enforcement. We know that that's actually a really good time to have a conversation in our community One of the things that we did recognize was that when there is a a national incident or statewide incident Something that puts police on the radar That it's oftentimes followed up with some sort of local connection or local thoughts and feelings And you know the best time for the police department For us to get up and talk about our policies and procedures and what it is that we do here Is uh following some sort of situation somewhere else Because you know if the the situation occurs here in davis there's a little bit of a tendency to kind of dig in and and not really talk Is uh candidly as we can when something happens somewhere else So we think that that's a real good good way to spark community conversations But probably the most important thing that the the group worked on was an alternative conflict resolution program And we know that uh people do file complaints against police department employees And we need and uh throughout the years we've noticed that not everybody is completely satisfied with the the way that we resolve citizen complaints Oftentimes the the police department ourselves we're investigating the complaints There's no community involvement in our complaint process And you know people really kind of walk away because oftentimes although a complete and thorough investigation has been done People are just feeling that their voices actually weren't heard by The the police department employee That worked with them out on the street or dealt with them on the street and and oftentimes people walk away with Still that initial conflict that just was never resolved so the group we work through a process um ourselves the a circle process which is Sort of a restorative process and and basically the the process that was just described a few minutes ago With us in this room But what it is is when somebody has a grievance against the police department employee Rather than doing just a formal investigation The employee and the the person um who has the complaint They can meet together using a circle process using trained community facilitators community members to act as facility facilitators and work through the conflict Engage in actual face-to-face dialogue And the hopefully the outcome is that people walk away with better feelings about What occurred out on the street when there's oftentimes not that same time to work through the the problems So we're actually really excited about about this More to come on that we'll be going before the city council on tuesday night and explaining the the entire process So thank you. Excellent. Thank you And next we have uh dr. Raheem reed from uc davis associate executive vice chancellor campus community relations Thank you for being here And thank you and uh members of the davis human relations commission and members of the community for For sponsoring this and coming out and supporting this program I've had the opportunity to participate in the past and so I welcome the opportunity to participate this afternoon with you here In terms of some of the things that have been going on on the campus and how we've responded over this past year or so About incidences of hate and bias and the like I would start off by saying to you that One of the strongest Things that we have in our campus community to support our efforts in building a more welcoming supportive and inclusive campus community Are our principles of community And if you'll recall back in 1990 The university of california davis Along with the city of davis and the davis joint unified school district Promogated a set of principles of community Um in april of this year, uh, we will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the principles of community statement At you at the university of california davis and we have spent the past year Preparing ourselves for that. So how do we celebrate our principles of community? Well, the first thing that we did was we recognized that the principles of community have served us very well over the last 25 years It set a tone for what we value in our community It set a tone for how we want to interact with one another in our community How we want to respect one another how we want to promote A very robust Environment for the discussion of differences different opinions different thoughts different attitudes different perspectives different cultures and the like But we want to do it in a very civil in a very respectful way Um, we recognize that our principles of community, although they've served us well over the last 25 years that in fact The uc davis campus today in 2015 is different than the uc davis campus Was in 1990 we're much larger and we're very much more diverse in all of the indices of diversity Whether it's racial ethnic sexual orientation the like of international students. You name it We've grown to be a very very diverse In large university. So we said about this year in Editing the principles of community statement for the first time in 25 years and making that document or bringing that document forward So it reflects what we look like and what we value In 2015 As I said the statement has served us very well. So we did not set about to totally revise That statement, but simply to edit it and to create A more welcoming inclusive document so that those who have joined our community over the last 25 years will feel welcome This is something that we'll be doing All year long We'll be doing a number of different programs on our campus In celebration of our principles of community and I'm hoping that the davis community Will participate and join in that whether it's speakers or folks we bring in or exhibits or film Of the or any sort of educational enterprise that we engage in I hope you will join us We recognize that we are a part of the davis community. I've often said that The various streets that border the campus in the community are not barriers You can freely cross from one side to the other from one community to the other community And so it behooves us to make sure that the things that we're doing are shared with the community at large Recently, we've had some incidents occur on our campus around Islamophobia and anti-Semitism And they've been very challenging for us to deal with And in the true spirit of our principles of community and recognizing that we are one community We have asked members of the community to join us in building the kind of foundation we need to address this challenge and to begin some real healing on our campus So the chancellor a week or so ago sent a letter out through the entire campus community Condemning first the acts of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia that had occurred and then Setting up a committee chaired by the vice chancellor for student affairs a dala dala Torah and myself But inviting members of the campus community to join us and in particular we asked Helen Rowland and kim truck From salam the sacramental area league of american muslims And rabbi greg wolf to join us because they have all been major Players with helen in the celebration of abraham in which we celebrate The three major monolithic faiths Patriarch abraham And they have done a great deal of work in building the kinds of bridges the interfaith bridges That we think are going to be very important to us moving forward in healing our community We recognize that the issues that impact our community are not all faith-based that there are issues that go beyond that But to be frank about it. We were looking for some common ground a common starting point And we could think of no better common ground or starting point than to use Those folks who have been doing work in the interfaith community for a number of years and have done it successfully To ask them to join us and to partner with us in moving forward So we'll be moving forward with discussions with that group our next meeting will include a number of students Because students lives are at the heart of this student lives matter a great deal to us And they're welfare and they're well-being and creating an environment in which they can learn and be very productive So they'll be joining us shortly and we'll begin to develop some program initiatives around that area I won't go on into a number of other things that are ongoing. I think they'll come up later But one of the things I would like to touch on that was mentioned in terms of our police department We do have in place this year what we call a police accountability board And it's a board that we put together to directly deal with citizen complaints of misconduct by our police department It is a board made up of faculty staff and students from across the campus And and we work directly with the uc davis police department In dealing with complaints of alleged misconduct of our police officers The first series of Cases are making their way through that system right now We hope for it to be a very successful and very transparent Process and one that will restore some trust and faith In our police and campus community relations And so i'll stop at that point and give my other colleagues a chance to make some remarks Thank you And next we have jennifer molan who's a counselor at the willett elementary school in the davinci charter academy high school But i do speak loudly so i'm not so great with a mic Oh getcha, um, so i'll try to keep this a bit short We really want to listen and learn from a community about what's happening And so you've already heard a similar theme of restorative I think every single person has used that same term That is the major focus in the school district right now We uh, we are working towards building capacity for understanding in the district of restorative practices By training teachers and students actually and staff all the way from The board and the district office through the entire community of the school district Our intention in that is really to Make a paradigm shift so it's You'll hear more about it, but it's not just a set of tools or a program It really is a shift in thinking and really what you've heard described already But doing things with one another To really hear one another you the Davis or uc davis was talking about you know, really looking to the community to try to Build that bridge to that to make sure that we can do things positively But one of the the main reasons is to really open up and create safe spaces for dialogue So that we can have conversations We can really listen to one another hear each other's narratives and stories and learn from one another and really understand our impact And one of the main blatant forms of racism that you'll see within schools is a disproportionate rate of Suspensions and expulsions of students of color Davis is not apart from that. We also have that disproportionate rate. We are working towards restorative practices You'll you'll see in research and information That's out there that schools that and communities that really adapt To a restorative mindset and practices that disproportionate rate decreases There is a myth out there that that means that kids are not being suspended or that there's no discipline That actually means there's a there's a much higher level of accountability when you need to hear someone else's story And really take that in and learn from that It's also because there is a really strong emphasis on building community and strengthening relationships And to be real if you if you are uh, you have a strong relationship with somebody and you really understand that person There's less harm number one But we're humans and so we we are in conflict and we do Harm one another but when there is a harm that takes place There really is an opportunity to listen and learn and grow from that and then restore community So that the people that have been harmed and the person that has Done the harm really can be less isolated come together as a community and talk about it Just as this Excuse me space has set up that same type of dynamic So we are not We we still have further to go. Um, for instance We um, though some classrooms did celebrate black history month We did not do something collectively as a district So we still have learning and growing to do that's something that is a particular thing that needed some emphasis So Thank you all for for letting us comment. I think um I'll probably save a little bit more for later, but We do we understand that we have decreased the The overt racism and discrimination that's visible in the district But we have further to go as far as indifference And microaggressions are concerned We we really we are trying to help staff and students understand that their bias And power and privilege really Keeps that indifference alive and we need to to change that And help people learn educate them better. So Thank you. Thank you. And uh, next we have Madhavi Sunder who is a board member of the davis joint unified school district. Thank you for being here sure Thank you so much to the human rights commission for organizing this important forum And to all of you for being here, uh, you know, I'm very new on the davis school board And so, uh, I just was elected in november and joined in december So I thought I would take my time to share with you some of the programs that I learned about on the campaign trail I had the fortune to visit all 20 of our campuses During the campaign and talk to principals teachers students Parents all sorts of community members and learned a lot. So I just wanted to share some of that You know, I uh, first it was many community organizations Some of which, uh, whose work are featured out front there including gloria partida and the davis phoenix coalition Um, so just learning about what's happening in the community Really emphasized the importance of strengthening our partnerships with these various community groups to Make sure that our kids in the joint davis joint unified schools have access to programs and uh, and conversations I uh learned through gloria about the hate is not a davis value campaign And hate is not a dj usd value either And so I was really heartened to see a lot of the great programs that we have Going on and and I'll talk at the end about a couple ideas for that are percolating for other things we can do as well But just to begin school climate is a high priority In fact, it is the priority when you talk to principals and teachers The community recognizes that if students don't feel safe and welcome, they cannot learn and thrive So recognizing that social and emotional wellness is critical to academic success is also part of our district strategic plan And just school climate really um entails a lot of things. It's safety It's your relationships with your peers and your teachers and counselors. It's uh, how we learn what we're learning It's uh, and it's the external environment. So it really and and we take this holistic look at what school climate is Um, so so some of the things that I saw I'll start with some elementary school programs and and move up from there But recess is what you hear most of all right when people are talking about climate and do kids feel safe Do they feel included and welcome and at some of our elementary schools? There are some really innovative things that are going on at pioneer elementary the parents Chose to pay for a PE teacher who could work with kids on the playground It's called lunch of palooza But the idea is having organized games and activities and adult supervision on the playground keeps kids engaged especially some kids who don't necessarily have an immediate peer group to to spend time with and socialize with it draws them in at Chavez elementary. There's a playworks group again. It's largely run by parent volunteers But they've actually even been able to survey Their community they have six graders mentoring younger kids So it's also a leadership opportunity for kids and the program incorporates pe standards into the games that they do at recess But they have already shown that there's improvement with respect to bullying And kids going to the office and and disciplinary issues So those kinds of things are happening on the playground and again, I think as Jen Mullins said If perhaps we could kind of streamline these kinds of best practices that work across the district at Montgomery elementary Where we have a high socioeconomically disadvantaged population and a high english language learner population We also have a family resource center right on campus where and this is a wonderful place where All different diverse families can come and feel and begin to get feel more comfortable engaging in the school The studies all show that the more parents are engaged the more likely their child is going to succeed and we have Academic programs there too two-way bilingual immersion that also are a way to help bring in english language Learner families into the school district. We have now our local control accountability plan, which is all about outreach to the community and bringing in the voices of families and and kids from all Different parts of our davis community Korematsu elementary is a school that I was had the privilege to be involved in helping to name that school 10 years ago now but the idea there was To to say well, what is it that Fred Korematsu? He was an american from oakland who challenged the japanese internment and and he really symbolizes this idea that You know, what does it mean to be american? It's not your the color of your skin or your funny name But it's the shared values that we all believe in equality and freedom in this country And that school has is a social justice school and so and they Wear on their t-shirts a quote from fred Korematsu that says if you have the feeling something is wrong Don't be afraid to speak up. They've used his story and his legacy to really promote anti bullying And and awareness of social justice that's some of the stuff And I don't want to go on too long, but a couple of things at the junior highs There's a lot of peer Mentoring programs that we're seeing at the junior highs where kids are sharing stories about being gay having two moms Having two dads what their experiences are in the schools and and sharing those stories with each other Empowering each other to intervene if they see bullying or taunting Or a harassment So I think I love the fact that it's peers helping peers and really learning the skills to intervene at emerson Homes and harper seeing that we have our race and social justice program at davis high school a long-standing lauded program as and and now I think that Several of our panelists have talked about a new direction that we're going which I think I hope it sounds very promising restorative justice Programs, especially when you look at the literature on the school to prison pipeline And how and what is one effective way of breaking out of that? The the idea of restorative justice bringing the parties together to come up with to help develop mutual understanding All of that is is Stuff that I think will be great. So I have more examples, but really as Jen Mullin said we're here to hear stories. So I'm just grateful that you're all here to share Great. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your organization perspective and it's interesting the thread of community engagement and the importance of letting people's voice be heard As a way to move forward in mending relationships and building a better future. Thank you so we're gonna move to The next the next part where we all get to share our story And in an effort of creating this safe space for our conversation I wanted to suggest some guidelines for conversation So in terms of just the logistics of it We have a microphone at the podium that you can go and speak to We also have These wandering microphones if you prefer to stay where you are and we can bring the microphone to you If you're not comfortable speaking up feel free at any time to just Go over to the board pick up a marker and and just to write a comment or share A story that you may have so just another way of connecting with everyone When you're speaking to the microphone make sure you're really speaking to it so your words are recorded And in terms of just the sharing we ask that you speak from the heart that this is your story tell it As it comes from you and we are committing to listening From the heart, you know, we all have different stories and voices So so take a moment to just clear your head and just let things To come in as you hear somebody else's story We sometimes worry that we won't have the right words But trust that whatever you need to say will just come out in in your story And say just enough Remember that we're trying to get everybody as many people as we can to come up for the three minutes So really stick to the three minutes And we have the timer and we have Talia who's going to enforce the time So when you when the timer start it'll be green And then when you have a minute left it will go yellow and then red when your time is up So we just ask that you honor that as as you come up And Let's see Kelly, I think we need for this ready for this to be up. Yeah So I I had a slide for the prompt for the sharing, but Allison did such a beautiful job. I just figure we might as well use her So there are three questions that that we ask and you can You can attend to any of them as as you see fit one is share your personal experience As it relate to discrimination hate motivated actions or indifference in Davis The second one is Share the impact that it that experience may have had on you or others Sometimes as bystander we're really affected by what we see in front of us So share any personal impacts And uh, lastly if you have any ideas for change, what what should we do as a community? What can we do as a community? To address these issues So they're here for you so you can just refer to them The personal experience the impact and ideas for change And so now we're going to open the floor Anyone wants to be the first to share? Thank you So if you can just say your name and then tell you we'll start the timer for you Good afternoon. My name is Rick Gonzalez. I'm the president of the mexico-american concilio of yolo county Um, I just want to give you a little historical perspective because I've been here so darn long I came to davis 1975 when Tong was was shot at the high school In 83 the result of that was the formation of this same human relations commission that brings you to this meeting today I was one of the the found the one of the first ones that were that served as the on the human relations commission Then we hired alvia if you remember 50 years ago. She was the first human relations coordinator in the state of california And the result of this After we formed up Was in response to the to the killing at the high school But what brought us together Was a group of students from uc davis group of african-americans who came to the city council and And stormed in and said they want to know why the police were following them and why they'd go into the stores They wouldn't serve them and why why why why so the city council gave us the the Duty to to do a year Survey and so I was the chair at the time of the human relations commission. We did a full year talking to school district talking to well We know actually we were talking to people and they brought all these issues about the schools Well, we had no jurisdiction over the schools the result of that Was we started we started a report that was written by mr. John meyer who was our city manager at the time Now you didn't went to uc davis. He just retired. He wrote a very comprehensive report of 50 recommendations It was called racial issues of 1989 you remember it And that document had 50 recommendations And so I don't want to reinvent the wheel here if you could find that document Some of those recommendations have been implemented some have not But to reinvent the wheel and to talk about all the stories because we heard we spent a whole year talking to the community Talking to the police department talking to the newspapers talking to the university Talking to people talking to you know, whoever would would come and you know We would have these meetings and people would just come in and they wanted to let us know So as a result of that we made 10 recommendations to the school district Which was the prelude to the human relations committees that came and evolved into the into the climate committees We even started the climate Position at the high school in the police department. We found out that they were all white So we wanted to bring some diversity to the to the to the police department Uh, and so these 50 recommendations were all Very well thought out. Uh, john meyer did a tremendous job writing this report and it's still around I kelly. I was asking kelly just for it. It's been around collecting dust for so long since 1989 But it is is valid in 19 in 2015 if it was in 1989 when we put it together So, you know, if you could sort of look at that and see the perspective You know, you're going to find out it's the same thing that you're talking about now So my suggestion is that you you know, if you could look at get that document sort of edit it or upgrade In fact, as a result of the 1989 report is the is the uc davis's community Principles of community that was a result of that of that report that we did back in 1989 So it has implications for the whole city for the for the school district and for everybody. So What and my question now is that you had Breaking the silence one breaking the I breaking the silence two What's what are we doing just making a report? Are we gonna have some action items? Are we gonna letting people more people know? I remember we used to come here and it's five people would show up We get more people coming. There's more interest. But what is the next step? Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks for sharing What is the follow-up? Oh, go ahead Hi, my name is david greenwald. I didn't really plan this but uh, I guess I have a response for rick one of the Things that daren talked about at the beginning Is the police community? mediation's and anyone who's around Tuesday night should come down to These chambers around eight o'clock probably get there a little bit early sometimes this council goes quicker than expected But they're going to be talking and unrolling that whole package and that came out of the work of the human relations commission From 2013 Part of that came out of What we had done at the first breaking the silence of racism event The idea is that if you go back to 2006 A whole bunch of people in the community had come forward with police complaints And unfortunately things escalated in the community. I'm sure a lot of you remember back then And the humor relations commission Had to be shut down on 2013 In may There was an incident. There was an african-american gentleman in the 60s. He was mowing his lawn in west davis And a police officer approached him and asked him You know what he was doing there if he lived there and Asked for his id now. He's out in front of his yard He wrote a letter to the editor or the enterprise Kind of complaining about the incident And so we were very concerned as a commission about Hearing things like that We had heard and i've personally heard over the years number of complaints about racial profiling and racial profiling is a really difficult thing To get to the bottom of because they're often Legitimate reasons why the police are pulling someone over if you're driving around at night I've been on a lot of ride-alongs. You can't see into a car. So It's hard to To see the race of the occupant But maybe they're looking at older model cars or cars that aren't around but the perception is there And and there are people I know people that you know, they've been pulled over 10 20 30 times And you know the first few times they're probably pretty polite and then each time they get pulled over after that There's anger building up that gentleman had probably Encountered enough stuff and over the course of his lifetime that this incident finally set him out He was by all accounts a very quiet unassuming guy And for him to write a letter He had to feel a serious indignity And so what we've created Hopefully is a way for people like that to be able to Talk with the officer involved in a mediated session where they're safe where they don't have Where they're on equal footing and be able to figure out what happened and maybe Maybe move on maybe not. Maybe maybe they agree to disagree But at least it gives us an opportunity to do something other than file a complaint or file a lawsuit. Thank you Thank you I am from i'm treisa geimer and i'm from south davis and I just wanted an experience that I had Drive riding the bus to sacramento where I worked And I got to know this man who was originally from india And he was telling me about how he would have these things happen to him and And I just you know, I couldn't believe it because you know davis is perfect and so Um, but then when he had moved and I saw him downtown I saw how do you like where you're living and he's in sacramento and he said oh, it's much better I'm not being um You know people aren't saying things or whatever, you know, I really can't remember what the things were but it was just a day-to-day thing Um with him and and I was really surprised sacramento is better. You know, I I just couldn't believe that and so um, so what happened to is I was in this class And um, it was you know months long kind of workshop type of thing and I had to work with these other groups People there and we didn't get to pick our groups. It was just there And I'm a civil engineer and this one guy Didn't really care for civil women civil engineers. I found out Other women that and I was the only woman civil engineer there The other women didn't have any problem with him But I kept getting digs all the time And I talked to the other women in our group and they didn't see it at all because it wasn't happening to them And the light came on if it doesn't happen to you these subtle things you don't see them But if it's happening to you it's a slap in the face each time and um So if you know just like what david said, you know the speaker before me A lifetime of that I had one class and I decided not to do anything about it because you know, how do you explain it? You know, um, but it wasn't my whole life I knew that class would end and I would never have to work with this guy again And so that's a difference The other issue I want to bring and so what I want to bring up about that is what it did to me is I want to make sure I'm not doing that Because I think that the guy who was doing that to me and the people that were doing it to my friend on the bus They may not even realize that they were doing it because it's so subtle and it's just what you were brought up with Um, so now that I have that awareness the you know, I'm working on that and making sure I'm not doing it And hopefully I'm not The other thing I want to bring up is in the davis enterprise twice from the da's office There was an article about A pacific case and they were talking about all the crimes this person had made You know two articles so two separate people and in both um in one of those cases, I knew what was going on and Basically lies were said in that article because they said this person had done all these crimes. Well That person I know had had gotten a their own Investigator and was able to prove that they didn't do Some of the crimes and I say they had to prove their innocence on those crimes And this was a person of color also And so he proved that but still after you know, the he was still convicted of one crime But the others he was found innocent from And still the article was saying he was he was convicted of all these things. So that was wrong Then the other one again was talking about how this other person was Wrongly acquitted of the crimes and everything and the reason why I know that was wrong is because her attorney You know that defended her went and wrote an article saying No, that's not what happened. This was all happened And I find that very upsetting That that's occurring with our da's office and in the paper. So blatant like that. Thank you. Thank you Hi, everybody. My name is dorta jensen. I live in davis and I came here in 1969 So I've been here a long time went to the east coast for some years, but now I'm back I wanted to tell you how I started getting involved with um city issues More heavily than I had been before I live in west davis right across the fence from the corner of shasta in arlington and at that That intersection a young person From ucd was run over about two years ago And so it was a very sad thing and and the same day or it happened in the evening So the next morning and all through the next month The students would come and they would leave flowers right in the green belt there and they would Leave lit candles and I lived just like 10 or 15 feet away on the other side of the fence And it was really dangerous, you know the lit candles and the the heavy canopy of the Of the pine needles there and so every day I thought okay, I'll be respectful I'll go out and well the first day I saw and I said I called the police and they One of them came by and said oh, I hate to have to do this and he knelt down and blew them out So then I thought okay. Well, I won't call the police every time I'll just go out there and blow them out when I see them because it's just so dangerous at night and we're all You know five or six houses there and we had a fire there 10 years before from a lit match that ignited some pine needles and then continued on and destroyed half of a little cottage So what happened was I just kept on being you know mindful and blowing them out But after a while I was getting kind of mad about it and then I tried to work it out with the city and To find out whose land it was and and stuff, but I wasn't getting very good answers. I thought So the way it affected me was that it just made me very frustrated with the city government But you know, I was meeting people and talking to people and finally what happened was I talked to the the band the university band because this kid had been Been with the band and a lot of his friends were the one her friends were the ones that were doing it And I just told the band person on the phone. Hey, we had a fire here before and It's just so dangerous and then mostly the stuff stopped. So Why are you saying this is a story about discrimination? Well, I was just one person and they were many and I was alive and they were mourning a dead person and it wasn't very Politically correct for me to say hey, we just step in and make it safe you know for me and my neighbors and the animals in our homes and everything but So I learned something about power During that interchange and it turned out well, you know, no, there aren't any more lit candles and Stuff but and I met people and I'm still interacting, but I just it was a good way to Find out what you need to do which is to say hey, who do I talk to so I can get this pro problem Resolved so I just wanted to share that with you and so here I am two years later two years later at a nice Meeting and hope you're all having a good day. Bye Thank you Yes, please Yes, good afternoon everyone. My name is rob white from the city of west sacramento I'm gonna give you a little background about myself. I I'm a former navy Person I served the military I was an air traffic controller for the for the navy I got out and I became a Correctional peace officer for the state of california and served honorably in that capacity And then I was medically retired some serious injuries, but anyway at any rate I moved to west sacramento in 2008. I bought my home there and Live there peacefully quite fine and easily for approximately until 2012 And there started to be disturbances around my home And disturbance was because of a business And I said okay. Well, maybe somebody has to run a business out of their home. They need some Doing a recession. I'll be patient Then another business not only next door to me. This one's directly behind me came soon And it started the same type of noisy business and if you know, the business is good to have daycares in the community Having two of them on your home all day with all the noise. It's just too much. So I began to Call code enforcement complained to the city Well, ultimately the city didn't like my complaining once I started writing letters to The assembly assembly member Roger Dickinson at that time And so they decided that they were going to use the west sacramento police department This is the police department that had the rapists And has also had numerous civil rights violations against them They said they're going to use this police department to Shut me up by creating a false statement in a civil report And even wrote me down as a 51 50 case. This is a criminally criminally insane person That if any officer shot them down in the street Once that 51 50 was discovered there would be no investigation. There would be no further Reason to investigate this person is obviously insane, right? Because they put this on this report with my name on it I have tried to contact the da's office D. A. Jeff Risley and is not interested in pursuing crimes Against citizens By municipalities. He's only in doing the other opposite direction If it's a crime against us that the citizen is committed then he will pursue that vigorously and very quickly So Oh, let me just tell you. I don't like having to complain about anything. And this is the type of person I am I do not like that. That's not my lifestyle. I'm a rotarian I give to the community freely I've done it all my life and I I love it. I love it and I help and aid children In everything that I do. I think that's the best way to be and in fact, that's why I'm speaking up Because I don't want Future generations of young people and children going through the same thing. I don't want our veterans coming back to the united states Veterans of color or of any nationality Having city municipalities function in this manner. It is not american and it is not the way of our future Thank you for your time Anyone else Do I push the button? How you guys doing? My name is frankie woods. I'm the executive director of future development youth center um I was also One of the coaches at davis high when the news was hanging on the The um Goalpost, thank you. So, um, I woke up, you know, we woke up to that and it was a reality that These kids, you know, they're starting off young and they're subject to uh This discrimination and this threat, you know, we had a majority of black coaches for the first time ever and um, it was very a frightening moment at the time So, uh, I'm just gonna keep it brief, but um, I'm all for What we could do, you know, what's the positive change and I say we start with the youth and we start we start from there Thank you Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is james martinez I was a victim of a malicious intentional oppressive act by a public safety officer belonging to the city of davis by the name of joshua helton Who caused my accident and left me there on the ground Without providing me with any type of emergency response And when I asked who he was he stated that it was an emergency and left me on the ground I don't know why I wasn't afforded the services in this community I don't know if it's whether I am seen as being inadequate for services belonging to this community, whether it be my race My facet of life or whether whatever it may be All I know is I was hurt very bad and I suffered a severe injury in which I just had surgery I had to deal with this a whole year And my family was drugged through this my children were dragged through this. I was basically Depriving them of being able to give to them as a father because I was rendered defenseless by a public safety officer that says on a vehicle to protect and serve Where where was those services and where was the protection on the night of this incident? And then he doesn't report this to the agency He waits about 14 days to fabricate the report You know, I asked them for his identity and he left that out of the report and I'm just so hurt by this and it is my duty to Abress the community of what happened because I feel if I don't it's going to happen to someone else And I I can't allow that I feel I have a sense of responsibility To inform those that want to hear I understand it is Not correct to Say that there are times where Public safety officers are not the most truthful as people You know, and it's unfortunate to say that because we as a community emphasize the trust we put in our officers And for them to lie about something so minute so tedious All you had to do was get on your mike get on your walkie-talkie and say a pedestrian is down Can you help him? Please? If you had an emergency I understand, but why leave me on the ground when I ask you who are you? I I just cannot understand Any of this on how it happened. I want to understand. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm here to ask questions That's why I'm here to inform you guys. Maybe A few of you guys might have experienced Something maybe not of that nature, but maybe of Other nature, you know regarding police misconduct because that's what I feel this was You know, I understand that You know, like I said society puts such a big emphasis in our community public safety officers But the law is the law and you cannot sabotage the law to cover up laws that are broken by public safety officers Thank you very much Good afternoon. My name is teo will my story is very different from what you've heard, but I want to share it To illustrate just how complex cases of discrimination can actually be And to show how I got brought up to speed on how discrimination is definitely still with us So i'm an obstetrician gynecologist I was on call at the hospital when I was called to The room of a pregnant woman who was an avowed white supremacist The reason she had me called to the room was because she was refusing a blood draw that was necessary for Her health and that of her unborn child She was refusing the blood draw because the phlebotomist was african american Now the phlebotomist did not know that the patient had merely told her That she wanted to speak to the physician before she had her blood drawn So I inquired of her why that was the case And she related to me that she felt that if I would not enter into her chart An order saying that only caucasians were to participate in her care that it was she that was being discriminated against She did not see this as hate. She didn't see it as discriminatory She explained to me that it was like a religious belief for her Well, I explained to her that I couldn't do that But what I did do Was to request that the caucasian nurse that was assigned to her that day Do the blood draw well within the nurse's scope of practice Unbeknownst to me in the meantime an african american nurse who is there Sees this as a racist request on my part and instead of talking to me about the issue Called the sacramental b and reports the racist physician So there is multiple groups involved feeling they're being discriminated against I leave it to you to decide Which actions were actually racist and which were actually discriminatory But what it pointed out to me is that racism is clearly alive and well and has many complexities Thank you. Thank you for sharing anyone else. Yes, please Hello, my name is Douglas. So may I read please don't judge me. I'm from woodland Although actually I'm a transplant to woodland. So I'm not technically a woodlander But one thing I don't understand is not my point is I really don't understand it We need to break the silence on this too is why is there such hostility between woodland and davis? But that's not my point My point is something that we need to break the silence on It is something that puts every single one of us in this room on exactly the same level No matter What gender we are no matter what race we are no matter anything any religious background anything at all and this is why are we so willing to Turn a blind eye to the needs of the dying to discrimination against the dying My wife was a metastatic breast cancer patient. She was a quadriplegic She had over 30 tumors in her lungs and her spine was broken into three pieces Cancer left her totally paralyzed but able to feel every drop of pain She was also hypersensitive to all medications almost all medications Um, but the liquid morphine what they call rocks and all she couldn't take it because it would put her into a coma So we had hospice locally And there are multiple hospices. I'm not going to get into who it is but They came in and they insisted That she'd be rolled on her side Now anybody with any common sense would know if you have masses of tumors in your lungs And have problems breathing and your spine is broken into the free places And you have spinal cord compression in two of those t12 and c7 vertebrae if any of you're medically inclined You can't do that that person is going to go into respiratory arrest and die She did Because they came out and they said because she wouldn't turn Because she wouldn't allow them to turn her so they could look at her back That they revoked her contract, which is a felony violation of the law And said that she had to sign a new one. So did I as her husband Because they were not going to do anything to help her. They were not going to the quote was We will not lift a finger to help you in any way whatsoever unless and until both of you sign this contract in our presence And before we leave this room they give us an hour to discuss it while they sat in our bedroom and watched us I won't go any further. She passed away She passed away in the hospital in my arms But they tried to Take her body from us When she passed in the hospital, I have a letter from the from the hospital took me a year to get it from them But they tried to take possession of her remains Why I don't know I went to the police the two officers that I told were crying Then they said there's nothing we can do to help you. You have to go to the district attorney I went to the district attorney. I had all my legal information Did all my research. This is after she passed away And I took it to them. They said give us two weeks. I gave them two weeks I called them a week later because I was getting anxious um Two weeks later they finally called me and they said um sheepishly they said You can't prove that she suffered or suffered enough for us to take action And the rest of what you have are misdemeanors. So there's nothing we can do for you I went to the state legislature. I testified before the state legislature They looked at me like grieving husband and the the head of the board said Um, it'll get better and I'm thinking when's that going to happen? But it just goes on and on and on and every one of us in this room Is likely to have some form of discrimination As you lay dying Because the reason that I believe this is my opinion But the reason that I believe that all of this happened is because her case was so complex That the nurse that we originally had in the hospice said she wanted to have help She wanted to share the burden with another hospice nurse She was immediately removed by nine o'clock the next morning And we got another person who said it's my way or the highway It didn't show up for 12 days so every one of us is potentially Looking at this kind of discrimination and I just wanted to ask the question Why are we so willing to turn a blind eye and it's not just hospice It's when we we put the dying in a separate room in the hospital When we don't want to talk about somebody who's dying or we say that they had a good life and we ignore anything else All these things. Why do we do that? We need to break the silence. Thank you very much All right, we could probably have time for one more person before we do a wrap-up. Yes, please Do you want to do it from over there? Yeah Oh, let me get you Oh, okay. Thank you I'll take just a minute. My name is Cecilia Eskemia Greenwald and I'm past chairwoman of the davis human relations commission I happened to be chairwoman at the time when The commission was disbanded because we were bringing forth Issues we were having meetings for people in the community And they were filling up rooms 150 200 people talking about Incidents that had occurred where they felt they were being profiled We bring it forward now to where we are today And I believe we are on the path towards healing our community So i'm asking you all to come on tuesday. It's very important for you all to participate And to hear the plan and what we've been through over the last 15 months Assistant chief pytel is going to Lay out the plan to the city council and to members of the community And it's important the people that were on that committee because we didn't come willingly as rick gonzalez Former chair of the human relations commission mentioned and tansy tom as I see here out here too We've seen these incidents happen again and again over the years And people come together and say we're going to do something we're going to do something And we have meetings but what comes of it what's different this time is that there's a plan in action There's a plan in place to address these issues And I really hope that people attend and participate and what's unique about this is that it's not going to necessarily be perfect But it's a start. It's a very very good plan And it's a fluid plan so we can look at it. We can modify it as time goes on But it's something that's going to put us on a very good path Towards addressing these issues in the community. What really gives me good hope is the different groups of people we have represented up here We have the police department We have raheem reed from the university We have the school district represented here and we have the board of education The reason that's important is because we have all these different components But the most important part is you the community because if you don't buy into this if you don't help us with this it won't work and Raheem what I wanted to say as a student you see Davis, you know, I graduated from there years ago I recall incidents where there were students in various groups Who were either the victims of various hate crimes or may have participated in hate crimes? And so i'm very happy to see that at the university They're have a plan together to address it and my hope is that in the future The university and the community of davis can work together So we don't have to have this differentiation between the city of davis and the university because we all live in the davis community So i'm hoping we can do that in the future. So we have some kind of restorative justice component at the university But I just wanted to thank you all for being here today because this is a very um For me, it's a very important moment personally because what we've been through But I think as a community it's very important because we are on the right path Towards healing these issues. These issues aren't going to go away. As you know rick tansy others They're not going to go away. They're here, but what's different is how we choose to address them And so I thank you all for being here. Thank you. Can you just Yeah, she asked me to remind everybody on tuesday. It's at the city council meeting and it's going to Kelly's tackle. It's our assistant city manager Um, what time will it be on the agenda? Approximately Okay, approximate 8 30s. You might want to be here a little bit early And if you aren't able to be here to watch it at least you can maybe give some comments during public comments at 6 30 And then you can watch it from home on dc tv channel 5. All right, great. Thank you Yes, it's 8 o'clock Okay, so hold on. I want to just do a wrap up for this time period right now and then we'll take About 5 10 minute break for those who need to leave the program was Advertised till 3 o'clock So if you have to leave you can leave and those who want to stay and continue an informal conversation We will remain in this room to do just that and so I just want to give Just a few minutes time for our panel to just kind of give a response and closing comments anyone wants To start Okay, thank you Let me start and I'll I'll try to be brief In the back of the room Right under mr. Greenwald Right over his head is a statement that I will ask each of you take a look at on your way out It's actually a principles of one community statement, which we put together several years ago, which is to try to create A sense that we are one community It's signed by members of the davis human relations commission the city council I believe leadership from the davis joint unified school district and leadership from the university of california davis So we we are all in this together and I appreciate the last remarks about us coming together as one community Secondly the other point I'll mention is that a lot of the work and and Programming efforts and initiatives that we're looking at Deal with an issue that has come up here Time and time again, and it's it's understanding microaggressions It's easy to understand basic discriminatory Practices in the light and most of the time we avoid them and people avoid actually committing those kinds of acts But what happens a lot in our society nowadays are what we call microaggressions those subtle Assaults on your dignity You're aware of them. You you feel it. You know what they are They go across all the different lines of race ethnicity gender sexual orientation and light And a lot of times because someone right next to you doesn't say anything about it You you want to question yourself as that that really happened to me that they really just slight me Did they really just you know because no one else is willing to step up But I think one of the things that we've recognized on our campus is this issue of positionality That a lot of times these microaggressions occur with people in a sort of us Leadership or supervisory position or authority position to you in a less powerful position There's a power differential in that relationship And that a lot of times is where that microaggression really starts from so on campus We're trying to develop the kind of training for managers and supervisors and leaders in position of authority It could be the police department as authorities could be teachers in a high school It could be you name it But for people to understand those people have a special responsibility to both understand what microaggressions are So that they themselves don't commit it but also more importantly to be able to recognize when microaggressive Behaviors occurring in their climate where they're at so they can stop it and address it there before it goes on And that's one of the areas that we think we can do some research and some training for our entire community Thank you I'll pick up on what uh, Raheem read just said in terms of some of the examples that I heard of microaggressions just talking to Teachers and families are you know the simplest question of like oh, where are you from? Often I heard you know the children of color at the high school people ask them that as if they're not from davis They're not part of our community You must be from woodland Right, I mean that's that's the the implication and and and so I think this idea of the microaggression It's the simplest ways that we have of talking to each other that tell us that send these signals of who we are and who belongs and who's From somewhere else and I was really really moved by mr. Martinez's testimony and and Thank you so much for sharing that with us and this kind of feeling of well We have these public services and public servants, but being written out of the polity And and this idea that I you know, especially when we say we are one and and you're still getting the signal not belonging and and and the other Piece of mr. Martinez's testimony that really moved me was when you're saying you don't understand You just want to understand and I think even in tia will's commentary too just saying I wish that we had talked The nurse had talked to you And and I I think that it's these kinds of fora that that get us together to talk to say that these are very complicated issues And and we're all maybe let's assume best intent. We're trying to do our best, but there are major repercussions By our actions. And so I think that well, what are some of the ways we can get at that to share more? But also restorative justice So if mr. Martinez had had access to something like that where we and even tia in your story Something like that where we're sitting down and and and trying to understand where the other person is coming from And and I and I thought That was so beautifully illustrated in teresa geimer's comment if everybody could be like you in terms of Really engaging that person sitting next to us the stranger on the bus And hearing their stories and not writing them off and and and taking internalizing it and thinking well What I don't want to be of the person that's causing my this this person to feel that way What could I possibly be doing? And and also just questioning our community. Is is there something about our community that's doing that? And and making and why is west sacramento or sacramento a more hospitable welcoming community? So I I thought that that was great. I heard it in dorta jensen's comment too in terms of Recognizing the complexity of that situation She was she found herself in and she she knew it wasn't politically correct to just blow out the candles But at the same time there was a serious concern and really communicating I think that that at the end of the day What what we're hearing is the importance of that and just a takeaway as a as a Member of the school board is to what extent are we teaching that kind of storytelling sharing caring How can we develop that empathy in our classrooms? Because these are the citizens of tomorrow and and then it was in the last story as well Mr. Reed We are we are a society that unfortunately is desensitized to the dying There is so much we're overwhelmed by everything around us. We don't have time We don't know how to respond And it's just learning these skills of how to take it in how to feel how to understand how to care and empathize I think that um, there's a lot that I've already learned and and thank you all for sharing that and I think these are things that we need to be learning in our schools too Thank you Jen did you want to add? Uh, that was all said, uh, beautifully. I I agree with all of that. I think it starts very young I think it starts in Giving kids language to express how they're feeling. Give them a space to do that And really encourage the sharing of stories. I think it's that's how we find out how we're Affecting one another in all the stories that were shared Multiple levels of people were impacted just by one thing. So families You know people that were just riding on the bus with People that we work with so many things impact all of us and if we don't talk about it It's not going to get any better. So thank you everyone for sharing your stories. I really appreciate it And I feel Cecilia. I feel like you wrapped it up very well at the end I feel like um, there is hope in this room And I hope that we do move forward and take steps to really bring this community together and share And make it a better space for everybody. So thank you everyone Did you want to add a comment? You're good. All right Okay, so just in terms of kind of ending the program I think what we heard is the the power of conversation and hearing people's stories And how that really helps create that awareness that we need to make a change to men relationships And uh, so just in closing just as next steps if I can just make a suggestion that Maybe there's something that you heard today and we're just about closing If there's something that you heard today that really moved you Find someone in your own community your family your friends People you work with and and pass on the story share what you've learned As a way of it kind of increasing that awareness be that That light that carries our stories out Do that Another thing that you can do if you haven't had a chance is go back and visit with the organizations find out What you can do and how you connect connect with these organizations support what they're doing And the last thing this is an annual event and the commission is going to continue To provide these forms for conversations. So we have Short evaluations forms in the back. So take a minute Let the commission know what you appreciated about the event If there's something that you'd like to see done differently something that we need to revise So the event keeps getting better and better As we move forward. So three o'clock right on the dot And if uh, just want to remind you we're going to take a 10 minute break I want to thank the panelists again for being here today really appreciate your perspective And we'll take a 10 minute break and those of you who want to continue and and have a more informal Conversation just come back at 10 after 3 and we'll continue this conversation until 4 o'clock. Thank you all for coming