These live conversations feature 30-minute topic-specific talks, usually with a guest speaker followed by 30-minutes of open community discussion to which EVERYONE is welcome to be involved. Please consider this your formal invitation and join us!
The only rules are to keep it RELEVANT to the topic and keep it RESPECTFUL. The conversation will continue at innovation-conversations-with-pearl.mn.co.
This week, we will discuss the opportunities to encourage diversity, equity, and inclusion through zoning codes. Our town is currently going through an update. We have until April 25 to add comments to the town’s interactive zoning map.
SPECIAL GUEST: Stevie Vargas
Stevie Vargas is a longtime community organizer and advocate in the Rochester community where she has been focused on issues around education, the injustice system, poverty, and the ways in which these issues intersect. She currently works for the Alliance for Quality Education where she is the campaign coordinator.
She is one of the co-founders of Free the People Roc, NNLB a statewide collective of Black women focusing on reparations and mutual aid work, and is currently Chair of the Rochester chapter of the Working Families Party.