2009 Seattle Race Conference - Where goes the neighborhood?

Where goes the neighborhood?
Community Displacement and Equitable Development

Guest Speakers

	Dwayne Marsh Associate Director, Policylink, Oakland, California Keynote Speaker Mr. Marsh works to organize and develop the next generation to address continuing disparities in affordable housing, transportation investment, and environmental justice. An authority on strategies to prevent displacement and gentrification, he has been actively involved in on-the-ground policy efforts nationally and in Seattle. He is the Associate Director at Policylink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity by focusing attention on how people are working successfully to use local, state, and federal policy to create conditions that benefit everyone, especially people in low-income communities and communities of color.


	Henry W. McGee, Jr. Professor of Law, Seattle University Professor McGee's career highlights include serving as a county prosecutor in Chicago, litigator in a Chicago law firm, civil rights attorney in Mississippi, and regional director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity Legal Services Program. Currently, he is a Fellow of the Mexican Academy of Private International and Comparative Law and a board member of the Low Income Housing Institute of Seattle.

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Workshops include: Black Prisoners Caucus, The Village of Hope and People’s Institute Northwest - Incarceration and Gentrification: What is the Relationship City of Seattle - Applying an Equitable Development Toolkit to Neighborhood Planning Community Coalition for Environmental Justice - Environmental Racism: Local Struggles and Victories Department of Neighborhoods, City of Seattle - Empowering Historically Under-Represented Communities—Promising Practices Department of Neighborhoods, City of Seattle - Community Capacity-Building through Leadership Training Homestead Community Land Trust - Community Land Trusts: A Strategy for Increasing Community Control within a Hostile Marketplace King Co. Civil Rights Commission -“Place Matters” Unnatural Causes…is inequality making us sick? Episode Five Puget Sound Sage - The Dearborn Community Benefits Agreement: A Case Study Seattle Housing Authority and Yesler Terrace Community Council - When You Know Better, You Do Better, Promoting Equitable Development at Yesler Terrace University of Washington, Dept. of Transportation, Engineering, Planning and Dept. of Sociocultural Anthropology - Gentrification Beyond Black and White: Asian Americans and Seattle’s Changing International District United To End Racism - The Role of Listening and Emotional Healing in Ending Community Displacement and Organizing for Equitable Community Development Washington Low Income Housing Alliance - Preserving Affordability as Seattle Grows Washington Low Income Housing Alliance - The Uneven Path of Affordable Housing in WA for Recent Immigrants Yesler Terrace Community Council - Accountable to All—Multilingual Neighborhood Organizing And more…
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