MEETING DATES & SPEAKERS
Summary of Unity Council Process
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MEETING DATES & SPEAKERS
1 . July 29 , 2020 2 . August 25 , 2020
• R . Daniel Lavelle , District 5 Council Member , Pittsburgh , PA
• Rita Soler Ossolinski , National League of Cities , Racial Equity and Leadership Program Director
3 . September 22 , 2020
• Secretary Henry Cisneros , Co-Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of American Triple I Partners , Principal Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co , former HUD Secretary , and former San Antonio Mayor
4 . October 20 , 2020
• Dr . Richard Florida , University Professor at University of Toronto ’ s School of Cities and Roman School of Management , Distinguished Fellow at NYU and FIU , and Co-Founder and Senior Editor , The Atlantic City Lab
5 . November 11 , 2020
• Mayor Vi Lyles , Charlotte , NC 6 . November 19 , 2020 - Town Hall 7 . December 8 , 2020
• Mayor Jeff Williams , Arlington , TX 8 . December 9 , 2020 - Town Hall 9 . January 19 , 2021 10 . February 1 , 2021 - Town Hall
• Regina Williams , United Way of Tarrant County 11 . February 2 , 2021
There are solutions , but the City ’ s leaders have to want to not only hear the solutions from communities of color and from experts of color . They ’ ve got to want to implement the solutions and not come up with little workarounds so that their friends and people who elect them are comfortable .
– an Arlington resident
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