CommunityEngagement&Investment

GWAC believes it is vital that minority bar associations create space to engage in the conversation around reimaging policing in this country. During this bar year, GWAC partnered with the Hispanic Bar Association of DC to host an informative virtualprogramtodiscussrecentcallstoreimaginethecriminal legal system and immigration in the context of abolition. This programwasheldonSeptember21,2021.

GWAC believes that our vote is our voice and that engaging in the right to vote is essential. During National Voter Registration Week, September 27-29, 2021, GWAC volunteered with several local civic organizations and the Washington Bar Association Young Lawyers Division to register local high school students to vote in theupcomingprimariesintheDistrictofColumbia.

InhonorofGWAC' sfoundingpresident,BarbaraE.Whiting-Wright,GWAChosteditsInauguralBarbaraE.WhitingWrightFounder ' sDayof ServiceonJuly31,2021.Duringthisdayofservice,GWACmembersworkedinthegardenofthe DCBilingualPublicCharterSchoolinNortheastWashington,DC,whichservesaspeacefulhavenfortheitsstudents.