We are very excited to announce our 2025 Equity, Racial Justice & Culture Lunch & Learn Actionshop Series! Each 90 minute “action” shop will offer education, tools, q&a and opportunities for reflection, engagement, and action! These amazing speakers come with lived expertise and professional experience around each topic. You are encouraged to connect each topic with your own experience and challenge yourself to take small and large steps toward building equitable and racially just systems, and organizational spaces keeping an open mind and heart for your own transformational change.
Magandang araw, kasamas!
Our 2025 Lunch & Learn Spring Series begins this month with our continuing actionshops on operationalizing equity! Tasha and I are super excited to spend time with all of you to "gather around the kitchen table" for open and honest conversations about what is happening, how this moment is hitting us, and how we can use this season to grow stronger individually and as a collective.
Please sign up for each meeting separately!
April 24 @ 11am-12:30pm:
Operationalizing Equity Series:
"Kitchen Table Conversations: Getting back to our roots to position ourselves for the long game" - offered by Tasha West-Baker and Ma.Caroline Lopez, MSW
This session is a follow-up to our March Lunch & Learn where we gained an understanding of the recent federal executive orders attacking DEI or diversity, equity, and inclusion. This actionshop takes the form of a kitchen table conversation that asks us to look within ourselves and our organizations. We'll begin to answer the question, which side of history do we want to be on; are we ready to be the people we have been waiting for? How can our affordable housing and homelessness sector continue to operationalize equity in this divisive political climate? Preparing our hearts, our minds, our spirits, our bodies and our work to stand on business for the values and beliefs that we say we hold, we hold fast with the full knowledge that we are playing the long game - one in which we will co-create the beautifully liberated world we've been envisioning. Together, let's tap into the stamina and resilience of our ancestors to stay in the fight for justice even if it costs us everything.
12:45-1:30pm: BIPOC Affinity Space will follow the actionshop, using the same zoom link, after a 15 minute break. Our experiences are all important, however the impact of the current political climate will be different in dependance on one's position and power; socio-economically, and within our organizations. This space will attempt to provide some grounding and healing for people who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color or multi-racial/multi-ethnic people of color.
New offering! Continuing Education Credits for attending Lunch & Learn Actionshops! Please see the registration form for details.
REGISTER FOR APRIL 24
Two-day beginner actionshop in May:
May 15 & 16 @ 11-1pm:
"{R}evolutionary practice: Equity, Racial Justice, and Culture 101" offered by Ma.Caroline Lopez, MSW
This two-day actionshop has been created as a beginner level training, and open to everyone who would like to have more time and space to discuss anti-racism and equity terms, personal, community, and organizational awareness, and how to incorporate learnings into everyday practice. Please register and invite others!
REGISTER FOR MAY 15-16
As always, Lunch & Learn events are a collective learning environment for speakers alongside participants. Actionshops are offerings of community care where we’re all meant to grow and water, give and receive, listen intently and share abundantly.
We’ll meet you at the kitchen table!
Mabuhay!
Ma.Caroline
Ma.Caroline Lopez, MSW
Director of Equity, Racial Justice, and Culture