Janine Christiano
Director of Strategic Partnerships, Government Alliance on Race and Equity
Ryan Curren
Director of Housing, Land, and Development
Dan Frankenfeld
Operations Data Manager and Trainer, Government Alliance on Race and Equity
Lenore Wyant
Director of Network Engagement, Government Alliance on Race and Equity
Leslie W. Zeitler
Director of Learning Strategies, Government Alliance on Race and Equity

In the seventh installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021, Bilal Askaryar, Communications Coordinator, #WelcomeWithDignity Campaign, tells Race Forward’s Hendel Leiva, “Afghans are used to being forgotten, used to being the number one story in the news for a week, two weeks, a month, and then not ever being talked about again. And so one thing that we've learned is that when the moment hits, you seize it!

In the sixth installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021, Jonathan Jayes-Green (they/them), Vice President of Programs at Marguerite Casey Foundation, tells Race Forward’s Hendel Leiva,“I know that some folks might not be as happy with us, like the fact that we, as a movement over the years, with the language that we use, through the strategies that we pursued, through the narratives that we've told, have picked winners and losers — have picked the good and the bad immigrants.

In the fifth installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021,  Jeff Chang, Senior Advisor at Race Forward, Butterfly Lab for Immigrant Narrative Strategy tells Race Forward’s Hendel Leiva, “It's been really important for a lot of folks, many who are at this conference, to be able to encourage folks to really understand how anti-Blackness works in the context of immigration reform. And so I think the idea of solidarity is something that needs to really be put into practice.”