8:00 AM

REGISTRATION OPEN → Portland Ballroom Lobby

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS → Portland Ballroom

• Dale Yee, Conference Co-Chair

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

BREAK

9:15 AM - 12:15 PM

EXECUTIVE SESSION

• Room F150: Reconciliation as a Tool of Social Change - Taylor Stewart (by invitation only)

9:15 AM - 10:45 AM

WORKSHOP PERIOD 1

• Room D133/134: Unleashing the Power of Your DEI Committee - Alanna Hein

• Room D135/136: Building a Culture of Belonging: Addressing Acts of Othering ‘Microaggressions’ - Judith Mowry and Yolanda Sánchez

• Room D137/138/139: Reimagining Racial Inclusion - Greg Taylor

• E141/142: Pronoun Practice Workshop - Sandy Bacharach

• Room E143/144: Deconstructing Whiteness Within the Workplace - Alexis Braly James

• Room E145/146: Using Credible Messengers to Interrupt the Drift into Extremism - Randall Blazak

• Room E147/148: Community Shared Learning Space: Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) - organized by NWPEDC

• Room F151: Strategic Public/Private Partnerships to Enhance DEI and Build Trust in the Community - Sarah Delepine, Joe Baldwin, Bridie Harrington, Jaime Miranda, and Marta Petteni

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

BREAK

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

WORKSHOP PERIOD 2

• Room D133/134: Moving from Theory to Practical Application of Equity - Nikoyia Phillips and Harmonee Dashiell

• Room D135/136: The Allyship Challenge: How to Move Beyond Performative Allyship and Become a Genuine Accomplice - Kimberly Harden

• Room D137/138/139: Reimagining Racial Inclusion - Greg Taylor

• E141/142: Pronoun Practice Workshop - Sandy Bacharach

• Room E143/144: Deconstructing Whiteness Within the Workplace - Alexis Braly James

• Room E145/146: Using Credible Messengers to Interrupt the Drift into Extremism - Randall Blazak

• Room E147/148: Community Shared Learning Space. DEI Training: What? When? How? - organized by NWPEDC

• Room F151: Come Home and Eat Rice Together - an AAIPI Space for Storytelling and Healing - Mary Li, Jooyoung Oh, Soumary Vongrassamy, and Neisha Saxena

12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

LUNCH PROGRAM → Portland Ballroom

Music

• Darka Dusty & the Borshch Beatniks

Robert Phillips Regional Diversity Award

• Wendy Wilcox, Award Chair

• Percy Winters, Jr., Conference Co-Chair

• Geoffrey Kavulya, 2022 Honoree

Keynote

• Taylor Stewart, Executive Director of the Oregon Remembrance Project

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

BREAK

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

WORKSHOP PERIOD 3

• Room D133/134: Moving from Theory to Practical Application of Equity - Nikoyia Phillips and Harmonee Dashiell

• Room D135/136: The Allyship Challenge: How to Move Beyond Performative Allyship and Become a Genuine Accomplice - Kimberly Harden

• Room D137/138/139: Washington County Reimagines - Partnership and Empowerment for Black Lives - Latricia Tillman, Justice Rajee, Ty Schwoeffermann, and Marcus Ford

• E141/142: Trauma-Informed Arbitration and Mediation - Barbara Diamond and Mariann Hyland

• Room E143/144: Disability and Racial Justice - Ashley Carroll and Chelsea DeLoney

• Room E145/146: Strategic Public/Private Partnerships to Enhance DEI and Build Trust in the Community - Sarah Delepine, Joe Baldwin, Bridie Harrington, Jaime Miranda, and Marta Petteni

• Room F150: What it Means to be Transgender - Stacey Rice

• Room F151: Come Home and Eat Rice Together - an AAIPI Space for Storytelling and Healing - Mary Li, Jooyoung Oh, Soumary Vongrassamy, and Neisha Saxena

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

NETWORKING RECEPTION → Portland Ballroom Lobby

5:30 PM

CONFERENCE ENDS