Mississippi in the Know: Legislative Breakfast

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Series of breakfast events featuring insightful conversations with lawmakers, community leaders, and reporters

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Please join Mississippi Today in-person or on livestream for the second event of the Mississippi in the Know series featuring a conversation on critical race theory with Von Gordon, Executive Director of The Alluvial Collective (formerly the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation), moderated by Mississippi Today higher education reporter Molly Minta.Mississippi Today Editor-at-Large Marshall Ramsey will also illustrate the event live. Mississippi in the Know: Legislative Breakfast is a free series of breakfast conversations where members of the community can directly interact with lawmakers, community leaders, and reporters, while engaging in meaningful conversation.The event will also be livestreamed for those that wish to not attend in-person. Prior to the event, a livestream link will be emailed to all registrants and will be on Mississippi Today&#x27;s Facebook. More on our speaker:Von Gordon, Executive Director of The Alluvial Collective (formerly the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation), has coordinated or managed the organization&#x27;s youth engagement programs and supported its Community and Capacity Building efforts for nearly a decade.The team at the Alluvial Collective works to end inequity based on difference by cultivating belonging and wholeness through affirming, equitable and healing processes. Von believes in building deep relationships with and between those capable of creating transformation and movement towards belonging and justice for communities, organizations, and individuals. He serves on the board of directors of www.operationshoestring.org and www.msafterschool.org. He is a member of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation&#x27;s Community Leadership Network. He also serves on the Community Advisory Councils of the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Junior League of Jackson. Von previously worked in leadership and business development in the food and beverage industries. He attended the University of Mississippi and Jackson State University. A native of Moorhead, Mississippi, Von is a passionate husband, father of three, son, brother, and friend. He and his family now reside in Jackson, Mississippi, stewards of Choctaw land.Please attend virtually if you have been exposed to a COVID-19 positive person prior to event or are experiencing symptoms related to COVID-19.An important part of Mississippi Today’s mission is to promote public discourse and civic engagement. We believe that an informed Mississippi is a better Mississippi. Since being founded in 2016 as the state&#x27;s first nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom, we center readers in everything we do, informing–and engaging–Mississippians through reporting, podcasts, events and online communities.

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