Save the Date - 2020 Raby Foundation's Family Chats
Updated: Dec 28, 2019
Al Raby was an African American civil rights activist, co-chair of the Chicago Freedom Movement in the 1960s and campaign manager for Harold Washington, who became Chicago’s first black mayor in 1983. Please save-the-date to join the APA-IL Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee for the Raby Foundation’s Family Chats, a series of conversations at the intersection of civil rights and planning.
Monday, January 27, 2020 - Education, Places, & Spaces
12-2 pm, Lunch & Panel Discussion
MTCC Building, Auditorium, IIT Campus, Chicago
Join us for a conversation about the effect of the civil rights movement of yesteryear on Chicago's public education spaces and places of today, including the reclamation of 50 closed public schools.
Featuring Bill Gerstein, former CPS educator and Senior Advisor for Leadership Greater Chicago.
Thursday, February 6, 2020 - Anchor Institutions and Civil Rights
5:30-8 pm, Dinner, Panel Discussion & Networking
MTCC Building, Auditorium, IIT Campus, Chicago
Join us for a conversation about the dynamic between civil rights movements and anchor institutions in Chicago.
Thursday, February 13, 2020 - Housing and Civil Rights
5:30-8 pm, Panel Discussion & Networking
UIC Campus, Chicago
Join us for a conversation about the dynamic between civil rights movements and housing in Chicago.
Featuring Dr. Janet Smith, Co-Director of the Voorhees Center at the University of Illinois.
More details to come! Stay tuned!
These chats are sponsored by the APA-IL DEI Committee.
Learn more about the Al Raby and the Raby Foundation at rabyfoundation.org.