[Partner Event] Health Equity Breakfast Series

Power in Action: Communities Catalyzing Policy Change

How do community leaders harness the collective power of engaged residents to influence policy and ensure accountability of systems to respond to community priorities? How do systems need to function differently to truly listen and respond to community priorities? Join us Friday, October 25th for a timely and hopeful conversation exploring the role of communities in shaping policy and the ways that systems can transform to listen and share power.

Speakers:

• Elder Atum Azzahir, Chief Executive Officer, Cultural Wellness Center
• Francisco Segovia, Executive Director of COPAL (Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina)
• Diane Tran, System Executive Director of Community Health Equity and Engagement, M Health Fairview and Executive Director, Center for Community Health Equity
• Windy Ross, Director of the Child Safety and Permanency Division for the Department of Children Youth and Families

Location: Anderson Student Center, Iversen Hearth Room 340, 3rd Floor, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN 55105

For Questions: wholepersonhealth@stthomas.edu.

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