Accountability, Recovery, Imagination: Lessons from Minneapolis organizers

How do communities heal from traumatic community events? When something major happens in and to a community, what does accountability and recovery look like, both immediately and years later? What can journalists learn from how different communities rebuild and rethink their futures?

In our latest Perspectives event on the eve of SRCCON, we're welcoming three local organizers will share their experiences with those questions and more:

• • Jeanelle Austin, Executive Director of the George Floyd Global Memorial
  • Jessica Eckerstorfer, co-director of the Southeast Asian Diaspora Project
  • Paul Andrighetti, Development Director of CAPI, the main non-profit service provider for immigrants and people of color in Northwest Hennepin County

A Q&A will be moderated by Andrea Pierre, KRSM station manager and host of The Narrative.

A light snack will be provided, along with drinks available for purchase. The event will include lightning presentations from the speakers, a Q&A, and small group discussions.

Doors open at 7 p.m., talks begin at 7:30 p.m.

The speeches will be treated as on the record, with the Q&A and discussions under Chatham House Rules, which means that you can say what has been said without identifying who said it. If you want to quote something said during the Chatham House Rules session of the evening, please seek their permission after the event.

Thanks to the American Press Institute, the Donald W Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, OpenNews, and Michael Bolden for their support of this event.

What is Perspectives?

Perspectives is an ongoing effort by three journalists to find inspiration and strategies for tackling the media industry's biggest problems beyond our usual frames of reference: other journalists.

We bring in speakers from outside news to hear how they approach systemic problems such as misinformation, systemic injustice, lack of community cohesion, hedge fund capitalism, and more. The goal is to examine our work as journalists from a different angle, and find new connections, ideas, and strategies.

Learn more at https://perspectives.info