 powerful for those powerful words and for that young man every time I hear that song I'm overwhelmed with grief and sadness and inspiration and so you know I don't know about you all but I feel overwhelmed by the week what a what a community of leaders what a powerful week this this has been and just time well spent and you all have shown that by your interest and your engagement and so I just appreciate on behalf of the Spectrum SoCAP team I appreciate you I just want to really quickly run through some learnings of what I heard from today and then I'll invite my colleague Keisha Center back up to for a special announcement so earlier on we heard Michael O'Brien bring the fire in terms of really demonstrating how we bridge to empathy and the critical power powerful role that artists play in meaning making and culture making and then we were graced by Rashad and Crystal reminding us of the importance of narratives and they gave us some reframes stop telling stories framed as unfortunate instead of those with a justice frame stop talking about indigenous people or black people in black community as communities as vulnerable we are not vulnerable but we are being attacked the active voice has to be turned towards the system and in terms of its role of with harming people of color black folks and indigenous people are the antagonists in the American story so yes we have pain but we also need to center black joy indigenous brilliance black innovation Natalie Molina Nino reminded us that if you are alive today it's because you descended from people who refuse to die I just want you to marinate on that today and that she she challenged us saying that equity lacks ambition and that and that for us not to settle for what's been the normalized standard of living of prosperity defined by the dominant culture and there was a lot of conversation from our friends at Prudential around the financial services not having the history and not understanding how recent it is and how it's built into the policies and practices and how to tackle those emotional parts the community of the conversation that need to be taken up head on how do we then address policy in in the groups of people how do we use philanthropy as a scaling mechanism even recognizing that philanthropy is not enough and that government and the private sector must step up and totally transform the way that things are done how do we engage with community in ways that make sense for the community taking into account their individual experiences there was a call to action there financial institutions must step up and educate themselves related to sensitivity and they might they must find the people who have the credibility and the trust in the community to help them message and implement those strategies and again engage communities in ways that make sense so that they can help you with that leaders must make themselves vulnerable in those ways particularly in corporate settings where they can bring their full human selves there was a call for moral imagination I refer to it in my practice as an embutu moment my ability your ability to see ourselves as an extension of one another the private sector has to mobilize in ways that they've never done before so what can we do tangibly I heard develop peer groups to support transformation in the system and that includes with accountability I heard keeping an eye on the study that is about building this effective ecosystem not just about capital but also about trust relationships and networks I heard just move it just invest the dollars in entrepreneurs of color I heard spin down your power and your privilege there are so many learns and I know that you all have been sharing resources in the chat there was so much that we were able to gain and and that you will continue to share with this community I want to pause and take a special announcement and invite my colleague Keisha center to join us for her special announcement hi Nadia are you how are you good I'm after those those panels I mean from Rashad to and crystal and Cynthia and then you know what the prudential conversation it was just absolutely fantastic and of course Bermuda does what he always does best always does leave us with hairs literally you know on my arm so I'm just so thankful this has been a great this has been a great three days and I before we get to our special announcement I'm really excited about I want to first thank you Nadia everyone put some exclamation marks in the chat put some love in the chat for Nadia this is not easy work this is not easy work any just any day of the week but it's not easy work when we're in the the reality that we have right now so trying to show up and be present for people to help navigate hard conversations and emotions and feelings when you yourself are trying to figure that out is not easy work so you did it with grace you did it with elegance and we honor you for bringing your body and your wisdom and your experience to the table so thank you for doing it's always so great building and working with you I look up to you and I just I love I love you so I just want to say that I also want to say thank you to Kerry who's backstage somewhere putting out fires and you know the whole team but there's a shout out to Casey you've heard him on on here is in the background and navigating and Amanda who's fantastic you know the whole the whole socap team is dynamic but you know this last week it's been a group of people just burning the midnight oil making it work so I just want to say thank you and everyone please show them some love in the in the comment section as well and the whole socap team you know you've seen them pop in and out and help moderate your conversations but they make all the magic happen and they're just such a dynamic group and I hope that spectrum has been the start if you're already part of the socap community and the spectrum community yay if use is your first time you've been introduced to it then consider yourself lucky because this was a dope first time so we hope that you will stay with us we've got so many things that we want to do and I have to say thank you to all of our speakers who I mean people are busy people are being Rashad Robinson I mean he was talking to Oprah yesterday you know and Stacey I mean people are busy and they showed up for us to have this conversation and we talked about the dynamic people that were going to be here so we just want to say thank you to that and our advisory board our advisory board our team of rock stars that have believed in us since the beginning so I have to thank our vice board for always keeping us honest telling us what we should be saying what we're not saying what we need to push for and I thank you for that please check them out on the spectrum website there's some dynamic people you can you can ping them in the people section they've been here throughout the entire week and then to our sponsors we cannot do this without you thank you every last one of you that gives us resources to make this happen to make these conversations happen and who were like what we've been talking about with funding is a former funder and Nadia you were a former funder funder too they were nimble for us to change when we need it to change when when we were doing one thing and then the next day we had to change and make this virtual and so these look at everyone that were there's so many to name so we have a slideshow because you know how someone always forget some get forget someone we got a slideshow so we don't forget them but they I mean I would challenge our funders to do that we had to pivot these were uncharted territories and times and so our funders were there to help us pivot and help us reimagine and do this the right way so thank you and I really appreciate that so I am excited to announce um the second the nominations are open and you can find this on the spectrum website for our 25 game changing founders of color we launched this list last year and some of the um founders that we have identified have for speakers today they were speakers last year at spectrum they're from all over the country who are doing work in the communities and in across the nation and are changing the game I mean the title is fantastic is 25 game changing founders of color so that those nominations open today they'll be it's posted on the web on the spectrum website there is a form for you to fill out yes you can nominate yourself if you think you are a game changing founder of color please you know if someone if anybody's gotta stand up for you you should stand up for yourself so um please take a look at that list we're gonna be pushing that out more there's gonna be emails I've seen people in the chat asking about videos we're gonna have all of that to you but we ask that you please take a look at our at the 25 game changing founders of color um and the issues that they are working on we've got um innovators who have been working in covid that stepped in the gap across climate housing tech social justice so if you know someone out there we want to know them we want to highlight them use spectrums community and platform to highlight them so we can get them more of what they need and we can also help them be a light for others who journey on this path as well so we look forward to your nominations we look forward to you engaging with us and helping us to do better and be better and continue to build this dynamic community I think that's that's all I have to say for me thank you so much Kisha so if you missed the session I'll say that the videos will be made available in about a week and so you'll be able to go back and you wanted to remember that quote that someone said you'll be able to go back and look at that and then I think that there are other ways that the spectrum team are looking to bring this community together and they'll keep you informed of what that is but the work does not stop here the work is not over we implore you in this time and in this case to take these learnings let relationships that you have developed this week and engage in this work until we see substantial change and I dare say parody and if I'm channeling my internationally beyond parody in terms of what equity is between entrepreneurs of color and the dominant culture don't stop until we have more a more just economy that is been that is about more than than profit it's about justice let's aim for that new bottom line that centers justice and impact and so I want to leave you with this poem that I found from a poet from New Zealand whose name is Terrence George Craddock he's speaking to and this is called American Promise in Social and Economic Justice if the promise of social and economic I'm not sure what happened I think I got booted so I'm not sure what you heard but I will leave you with this poem that I found from Terrence Craddock and he's from New he's a poet from New Zealand but he's speaking to us this piece is called American promise is social and economic justice if the promise of so justice is to be attained in America the time to struggle and fight for social and economic justice is now always now not delaying for some for more opportune time or more courageous future generation the promise lives on in all of us who are prepared to stand up against those who stole justice deliberately without mercy or the slightest trace of scruples in the first place justice is only as strong and as secure as each generation prepared to honor and fight to uphold and preserve justice we must stand to be tested in the crucible of integrity now always now moving power but more importantly moving justice be well thank you