Abel Pacheco, Government and Community Relations Manager for the Central Corridor at Sound Transit, joined us to talk about how the regional transit agency is navigating the pandemic.
Lunch & Learn Recap: Public Education When You Can’t Be “In Public”
In our final Roadmap to Recovery event before we take a few weeks off, we were joined by Lisa Chick, CEO of the Alliance for Education. The Alliance for Education’s mission is to support excellence in education by advancing educational justice and racial equity for students in Seattle Public Schools (SPS). They do this by bringing resources to the district in the form of programs, dollars and stakeholder partnerships. The Alliance has been especially focused on supporting the district’s pandemic relief efforts for the last few months.
Lunch & Learn Recap: The Role of Art in a Pandemic
On June 18, we were joined by Regan Pro, the Kayla Skinner Deputy Director for Education and Public Engagement at Seattle Art Museum (SAM). SAM is one museum in three locations: it’s building in Downtown Seattle, the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, and the Olympic Sculpture Park in Belltown. Each year, SAM serves 800,000 people; its mission is to connect art to life. SAM strives to make their global collections relevant, interesting and impactful to all the communities that interact with it .
Lunch & Learn Recap: Immigration During a Pandemic
Our most recent Roadmap to Recovery event was a conversation with Malou Chávez, Deputy Director of Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP). Founded in 1984 to help Central American immigrant communities, NWIRP has expanded to serve 19,000 immigrants per year, representing 160 countries and 70 languages. They have offices in the Yakima valley, Wenatchee, Tacoma and Seattle, and serve immigrants living throughout Washington State. Read more
COVID-19 Ten Weeks In
This has been a hard week as we grapple with how to communicate with you. We have not centered our work on the experience of Black folks in tech — nor in the community — in the past and do not want to be disingenuous claiming solidarity with the movement for Black lives. We want to avoid the cycle of private outrage → public statement → donation → silence + inaction while also knowing that Black Lives Matter.
Roadmap to Recovery: Staying “Home” — COVID-19 & Homelessness
In our third installment of the Roadmap to Recovery Series, we were joined by Walter Washington, Senior Director of Housing Services at Wellspring Family Services. Wellspring’s services are concentrated in four areas: mental health, family homelessness, early learning, and basic needs. Each year, Wellspring helps thousands of children and families break the debilitating cycles of instability, homelessness, and adversity to achieve positive, permanent change in their lives. The organization is focused on building trusting relationships and long-term solutions in the communities it serves.