This year’s local theme is Racial Healing, Transformation, and the Belief in You.

This theme challenges assumptions that racial hierarchies are the norm. The dialogue will center the voices of historically marginalized persons in ways that affirm that they also matter.

The Believe  in Us  Collective, soon to be launched, represents one step towards strengthening the proactive leadership of the historically marginalized. It will address racial disparities in equitable access to housing, clean water, and healthy environments.