Join us and YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish's Regional Director of Homeless Services Jeanice Hardy for a virtual town hall event, Advancing Justice: Ensuring Equity for All, where YWCA USA CEO Margaret Mitchell will sit down with an array of experts, community leaders, and elected officials to discuss the intersection between racism and housing disparities, how disability and mental health challenges relate to those disparities, and what we can do to address the most critical issues impacting communities of color today.

The program will also include an invitation to join this year’s YWCA Racial Justice Challenge, which provides participants with the opportunity to join thousands of others in a unique virtual learning community designed to to create dedicated time and space to build more effective social justice habits.

Advancing Justice: Ensuring Equity for All is a feature of YWCA’s annual racial justice initiative, Until Justice Just Is, which centers the racial justice work that the vast network of YWCA Local Associations carry out in communities across the country. This work is critical and urgent, as systemic racism leads to widespread disparities for people of color, including contributing to poorer mental health, denying equal access to housing, and leading to poorer health outcomes and disabilities. This event serves as a kick-off to a full month of thematic events from YWCAs across the nation, during which community members will be invited to participate in our mission of eliminating racism in a tangible way.