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

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven hosted a panel discussion and community conversation on Feb. 1: Stepping Forward: Advancing Opportunity and Equity in the Time of COVID.

Stepping Forward is an unparalleled response in The Foundation’s 90+ year history to the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and to the racial inequities that have for far too long existed in our community.

Opening Statement:
Flemming L. Norcott Jr., Community Foundation Board Chair and Retired Connecticut State Supreme Court Justice

Moderator:
Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, Reporter covering Education, Housing and Inequality Reporter at The CT Mirror

Panelists:

• Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, Ph.D., Community Foundation Board member and past Chair; Associate Professor of Political Science and Senior Director for Inclusive Excellence at Quinnipiac University
• Addys Castillo, M.S., M.P.A., Executive Director of Citywide Youth Coalition
  
• William W. Ginsberg, President & CEO of The Community Foundation
• Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D., M.H.S., Community Foundation Board member and Vice Chair; Associate Professor of Medicine, Public Health and Management; and Founding Director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) at Yale University; Chair of the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force
• Onyeka Obiocha, Managing Director at Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale University
• Garrett Sheehan, President & CEO of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce