AG E NDA June 22nd -- Day 1 Agenda REGISTRATION (Skyline Room, 21st floor) 9:00 – 9:45 AM
OPENING KEYNOTE (Skyline Room, 21st floor) Eva Paterson, President, Equal Justice Society
9:45 - 10:00 AM
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PLENARY SESSION #1 – Practitioner & Expert Round Table (Skyline Room, 21st floor) 10:00 – 11:45 AM Roundtable discussing explicit and implicit biases, grounding language, and interplay between mind science and white supremacy, what practical steps they’ve found to be working, if anything at all. Facilitator: Nancy Dome, Epoch Education Rudy Mendoza-Denton, UC Berkeley Jason Okonofua, UC Berkeley Arlene Mayerson, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) 11:45 - 12:45 PM LUNCH (Provided) - Skyline Room, 21st floor Breakout #1 – Reducing Bias in Tech & Employment (Skyline Room, 21st floor) 12:45 - 2:30 PM How do we reduce bias in tech and employment? Facilitator: Darlene Flynn, City of Oakland George Hofstetter, teenage tech genius/entrepreneur Jocelyn Garibay, Code2040 Lisa Gelobter, tEQuitable Beth Hodess, Attorney Breakout #2 – Dealing With Our Nonprofit “Ish”! (OCC Room 202 – 2nd floor) 12:45 - 2:30 PM How do we address the biases we perpetuate in the nonprofit/ civil rights arenas with self-described allies and social justice dogooders? Facilitator: Chris Bridges, Equal Justice Society Gillian Sonnad, OneJustice Tirien Steinbach, East Bay Community Law Center Bill Kennedy, Attorney Jessica Redditt, Bay Area Legal Aid 4 @equaljustice