The Journey to Racial Justice

Management Tallahassee, a program of the Better Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, has a mission to domesticate a various community of rising and skilled leaders dedicated to enhancing the group. For 38 years, this system has labored to fulfill this mission. On June 4, 2020, LT Board of Governors underneath the management of Chair, Melissa VanSickle (LT 29) launched a press release in help of our numerous membership and to empower leaders to look inside to be part of actual change. The message was a continuation of the work LT has been doing for practically 4 many years in our group.

We fulfill our mission by giving group leaders the information and experiences to be part of an genuine change in our group. In response to the killing of George Floyd and the latest nationwide highlight on systemic racism, our Board of Governors supplied a framework for this alteration. Included within the attraction have been 4 steps: Educate Your self; Interact in Dialogue; Set up Concrete Actions, and Take Motion.

Management Tallahassee is happy to launch the LT 2.0: The Journey to Racial Justice program, chaired by Darby Kerrigan Scott (LT 33) and Malone Smith (LT 35) together with a committee of unbelievable group leaders.

This 6-month program is a sequence of experiences and discussions targeted on positioning individuals to be part of actual change and to rise up in opposition to racism and the systemic practices that search to divide and hurt, as an alternative of construct and empower. That is achieved by offering a baseline understanding of the historical past of racial injustice and by partaking in intentional conversations about how we as a group can and may make progress towards racial justice.

If you’re a group member, there will probably be alternatives for you to take part on this journey by our sequence, Tallahassee Leads Right here, which could have programming all year long on this and different necessary subjects. We glance ahead to you becoming a member of us!