2024 GARE Membership Meeting at Facing Race Conference Cohort
November 20-22, 2024
“To be in company with so many public servants who work every day to advance racial justice, reenergized my fight, reignited my passion, and helped me reimagine my approach to the work of advancing racial equity, racial justice, and transforming systems. ”
-Cephoni Jackson, Chief DEI Officer
Race Forward and the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) are two powerful organizations that merged to increase capacity for the work they do to dismantle structural racism, transform institutions, and advance racial equity in government. Today, their network includes 11,000+ public stewards, or racial equity practitioners working in 400+ local, regional, and state jurisdictions. The DEI Cabinet the Health & Racial Equity Unit represented a 10-person cohort to St. Louis for the 3-day event to take advantage of unprecedented access to resources, information, and collaborative opportunities geared toward advancing racial equity for all. The theme “Our Power Our Solutions” emphasized the criticality of building community with shared power.
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Sacramento State Human Resources Capstone Class
November 19, 2024
Sacramento County Department of Personnel Services and Sacramento State College of Business engaged in a collaborative Human Resources capstone project. The richness of cross-generational learning and problem-solving together was mutually beneficial and an absolute pleasure.
Students were introduced to key members of the Department of Personnel Services and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. They learned the ins and outs of the County and its services and heard first-hand experiences of some of our team's professional journeys.
Capstone Challenge
Students were presented with the challenge to recommend a DEI learning journey that empowered employees to act through a framework of common language, common knowledge, and level appropriate, competency building curriculum.
The HR Capstone class offered four distinct, insightful, and innovative recommendations that will be leveraged by the Office of DEI and other County Departments to address our Employee pillar within the County of Sacramento’s DEI Action Plan.
