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WIN and Anti Racist DC: Envisioning Thriving Communities Today, and Looking Ahead

  • Bread for the City 1525 7th Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20001 United States (map)

How is racial and economic displacement shaping the Ward 3 we live in today? What might it look like for Ward 3 to shift that exclusionary trajectory? This panel will explore creating a positive vision of the future for Ward 3–one that will compete with negative narratives and highlight a potential path for creating change. The Washington Interfaith Network (WIN) is a city-wide, multi-racial, multi-faith, nonpartisan citizens’ power organization that represents 45 faith and other institutions from all eight wards of the District, organizing our communities to give voice to the underrepresented. Affordable, healthy, and safe housing has been WIN’s signature issue since its WIN’s founding in 1996. WIN’s Ward 3 team is working to bring more housing opportunities to upper Northwest DC for households earning a wider range of incomes.  Anti Racist DC is a coalition of individuals and organizations committed to building an antiracist DC. This means a District that actively pursues antiracist policies and practices buttressed and substantiated by antiracist ideas and narratives. Through this pursuit, DC can repair past and ongoing harm and produce and sustain racial and ethnic equity. Anti Racist DC has committed to uprooting anti-Black racism in particular, which has served to oppress both Black and non-Black residents of color. Panel members included Erica Williams, Executive Director, DC Fiscal Policy Institute; Rev. Ryane Nickens, Founder and Director of the TraRon Center; Alison Dunn-Almaguer, Executive Director, WIN; and Abel Nunez, Executive Director of CARACEN in Washington, DC. Anti Racist DC Organizing Committee Member Kimberly Perry, Executive Director of DC Action, moderated the discussion.

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