About the Membership Meeting

The GARE Membership Meeting is a multi-day, in-person meeting for racial equity practitioners and racial justice thought leaders from GARE member jurisdictions. The gathering includes general sessions, plenaries, and breakout sessions to support network-wide connection and to share ideas, strategies, and promising approaches towards a just, multi-racial democracy. As GARE’s largest member convening, it is member-informed and increasingly member-led, creating space for building shared learning and momentum that practitioners can carry back into local racial equity work.

The purpose of the Membership Meeting is to support:

Visioning.
Create space for practitioners to surface urgent challenges and “hot spots,” organize, strategize, and support each other. Support imaginative and strategic thinking about the reach and impact of their work, collaborate on creative opportunities for advancing racial equity locally, with an emphasis on continued collaboration beyond the meeting.

Collective Impact. 
Build and strengthen structures for ongoing collaboration across GARE member jurisdictions, and advance relevant initiatives, programs, and frameworks, applicable across a range of contexts.

Shared learning and exchange.
Facilitate peer learning focused on government efforts to combat systemic racism and address structures, policies, and practices contributing to disparities and inequities, with an emphasis on generating ideas and insights that practitioners can adapt and implement in their jurisdictions.

Critical connections and relationships.
Build relationships among racial equity practitioners across the GARE network, fostering future collaborations and partnerships - both across the full network and in more focused groups based on region, interest, and experience level.

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