Stepping Forward: Advancing Opportunity and Equity in the Time of COVID

This month, PISAB Core Trainer-Organizer Addys Castillo participated in The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven’s panel discussion titled, “Stepping Forward: Advancing Opportunity and Equity in the Time of COVID.”

CFGNH identified the following takeaways from the discussion:

• “A sustained, long-term commitment is needed to advance opportunity and equity.
• Advancing equity requires challenging and changing existing power structures and policies.
• Opportunity is expanded when everyone feels their own power.
• Younger generations are at the forefront of making change.
• Sustained support of collective organizing is needed for change to happen.
• Inequity goes deeper than economic disparities, and will only be overcome through a transformational cultural shift with changed mindsets and new relationships.
• Every institution and every business needs to reflect the community with which it works.”