Retreat Learning Objectives
Our Goal is to help our community move toward racial justice and change the systems and structures that perpetuate racial inequities.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
Strengthen their skills and confidence to do antiracist work.
Deepen their commitment to antiracist work and build solidarity across our racial and ethnic identities to do antiracist work.
Build a community of learning and practice among LT alumni to address racism.
Develop action plans for themselves and their organizations.
Retreat Organizers
Dr. W. TALI HAIRSTON, LT’07
Tali currently serves as Director of Organizing, Advocacy, and Development for the Seattle Presbytery, and is the principal lead of Equitable Development LLC dba Root and Branch, an education and community research and development firm. A father of four, Hairston has 17 years in higher education in diversity, equity, and inclusion administration as the Special Assistant to the President and Director of Seattle Pacific University’s community and international learning program. Hairston participates in education research on physics and equity learning as a National Science Foundation awardee; as well as specializes in community education, engagement and outreach, and public policy research. In 2016, Hairston served as co-chair of the City of Seattle’s Black Male Achievement Initiative. Hairston also was the lead consultant for community engagement on King County’s Puget Sound Taxpayer Accountability Account, an educational investment fund. Beginning in 2018, Hairston became the lead consultant for the City of Seattle’s Priority Hire Advisory Committee, assisting stakeholders to create recommendations to the city. He is a native Rainer Valley resident, a graduate of Ingraham High School, and the University of Washington where he earned his bachelor’s degree in history. He also has a master’s degree from Fuller Seminary and Ph.D. in Education from Seattle Pacific University.
JAMIE STROBLE, LT’18 AND FOUNDER, NOIO PATHWAYS
Jamie 真理恵 Stroble is the owner and founder of Noio Pathways LLC, and seeks to build community and organizational capacity to address environmental and climate justice, racial equity, and equitable public processes. She is an experienced policy advocate, trainer/educator, and community organizer with over 15 years of experience working in environmental justice-related fields, including community development, racial equity, food justice, air quality & environmental health, youth programming, leadership development, and immigrants & refugee programs.
As a movement builder, she is always looking for ways to support organizations and new leaders, build community capacity, and strategize around affecting change. She has led curriculum design, built leadership development programs, and facilitated workshops for all ages from high school students to seniors. Jamie has a strong background in the incorporation of equity in systems, plans, and policies, and most recently led the groundbreaking development of the first community-driven climate justice framework (Section II: Sustainable & Resilient Frontline Communities) for King County's 2020 Strategic Climate Action Plan. She served as the primary advisor for climate equity throughout the plan and the lead author for the climate justice section, and created the Climate Equity Community Task Force to center frontline communities and BIPOC voices in community-driven climate policy-making.
She currently serves on the boards of the EarthLab at UW, the Healthy King County Coalition Built Environment Workgroup, Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Advocating for Health (APICAT), the Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership, and the Puget Sound Climate Preparedness Collaborative, and co-chairs the Seattle Planning Commission. From working with youth in the Chinatown/International District to leading leadership development programming for an API community organization, she has also long been committed to building the next generation of BIPOC environmental leaders and mentoring of young people of color in public service and environmental fields. Jamie is currently based in Seattle on the current and ancestral lands of the Duwamish tribe and Coast Salish people, and was raised in Hawai'i on the lands of the Kānaka Maoli.
REBECA RIVERA, DIRECTOR, ALUMNI IMPACT & EQUITY AT LT
As Director of Alumni Impact and Equity, Rebeca develops alumni programming and community building opportunities that support and catalyze civic and community action. Prior to Leadership Tomorrow, Rebeca was faculty at the University of Washington Bothell in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, where she taught courses and conducted research focused on sustainability, social justice, collective action, and community management of resources, agroecology, environmental justice, and ethnic studies. Rebeca has a Ph.D. in environmental anthropology and a graduate certificate in urban ecology from the University of Washington. Rebeca’s past education, research, and teaching focused on understanding the interconnections between equity and environmental issues. She is passionate about working with LT alumni to work toward a more equitable and sustainable region.
Rebeca is a board member of the Shoreline School District and an alumna of Emerge Washington. She is the recipient of two leadership awards for the development of cooperative housing and a campus garden.