Outreach to Co-Powerment: Achieving Transportation Justice through Reparative Planning and Engagement

October 28, 2020 @ 9:30 am - 11:15 am PDT

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Outreach to Co-Powerment: Achieving Transportation Justice through Reparative Planning and Engagement

This fireside chat will cover themes like collective visioning and participatory planning with a critical power analysis. Through a series of guided questions and multimedia references, panelists will share perspectives and strategies for operationalizing engagement, moving from government governing the people to people governing the government, holding space for new voices and disenfranchised stakeholders, disrupting what we know to be the planning workforce, and incorporating justice as a decision making mechanism.

Speaking:

Principal and Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Naomi Doerner
Co-Founder

Río Oxas
Founder and CEO

Destiny Thomas

Principal and Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Naomi Doerner

Naomi Doerner is a nationally recognized transportation equity strategist with expertise in creating diverse and inclusive strategic planning processes and facilitating institutional change based on equity, diversity, and inclusion goals. Naomi is a collaborative transportation equity strategist, skilled at bringing diverse communities, organizations, and institutions together on core issues. She has extensive experience working with public sector staff, government agency leaders, and elected officials, as well as the technical experts on aspects of policymaking and planning that enable her to be effective at moving staff, leaders, and stakeholders towards a shared vision. She recently served as Seattle’s—and the nation’s—first-ever Transportation Equity Manager. She is also the co-founder and national co-organizer for The Untokening, a national collective of leaders of color working to advance mobility justice.

Co-Founder

Río Oxas

Río Oxas is of Náhuat-Pipil, Mayan and spaniard lineage born & raised in Tongva lands. They Co-Founded RAHOK, a family-owned social enterprise providing services in education, land stewardship, and asset management. Río is a national speaker, educator, realtor, and race and equity consultant. Río works alongside Black Indigenous People of Color communities to advocate for our most vulnerable members and planet. RAHOK illuminates the interdepence of Race. Ancestors. Health. Outdoors. and Knowledge to cultivate loving neighborhood-ecosystem

Founder and CEO

Destiny Thomas

Dr. Destiny Thomas is a change agent and an anthropologist planner. She is the founder and CEO of Thrivance Group, a for-profit, socially responsible planning firm, and was recently featured on Good Morning America for her leadership in the urban planning sector. At Thrivance Group, Dr. Thomas works to bring transformative justice into public policy, urban planning and community development. With over 15 years of experience shaping key policy initiatives, Dr. Thomas believes race, place, and joy define individual and community outcomes. Dr. Thomas has a BA in Political Science from Fisk University, an MPA from Tennessee State University, and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the CA Institute of Integral Studies.

An introduction to co-powerment models for public engagement, including dignity-infused planning and community engagement.

At the conclusion of this session, registered participants will have the option of joining a 30-minute small-group breakout session.

This session will be simulcast on YouTube for observer access.

On-demand AICP CM credits

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