2023 East Bay Leadership Series

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Part 1 | East Bay USA Featuring Shannon Watts

We kicked off the 2023 East Bay Leadership Series with an event featuring Shannon Watts, Founder & CEO of Moms Demand Action. Watts shared insightful remarks on how to create an East Bay and nation free of gun violence.

We were grateful for a sold-out audience full of business and civic leaders, and for all the generous sponsors who made the event possible.

Please enjoy some photo highlights from the event below. You can find the entire album of photos on our Facebook page!

See below for more information on the next event in our series featuring Sherrilyn Ifill.

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Part 2 | Sherrilyn Ifill

March 2

Sherrilyn Ifill — Former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Join the East Bay Leadership Council for a conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill, the second woman to ever lead the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Ifill led the Legal Defense Fund from 2013-22, providing visionary and transformational leadership during one of the most consequential and intense moments in our nation’s history.

She began her career as a Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, before joining the staff of the LDF as an Assistant Counsel in 1988, where she litigated voting rights cases for five years. In 2013, Ifill was invited back to the Legal Defense Fund – this time to lead the organization as its 7th Director-Counsel. In that role, Ifill increased the visibility and engagement of the organization in litigating cutting-edge and urgent civil rights issues and elevating the organization’s decades-long leadership fighting voter suppression, inequity in education, and racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.

At critical moments during national political and civil rights crises, Ifill’s voice and vision have powerfully influenced our national dialogue. Ifill is a frequent public commentator on racial justice issues, and a trusted advisor to civic and community leaders, national civil rights colleagues, and business leaders.

Date & Time
Thursday, March 2 | 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Location
Online Webinar

Part 3 | Rosanne Haggerty

April 6

Rosanne Haggerty — President & CEO of Community Solutions

Join the East Bay Leadership Council for our third and final event in the 2023 series featuring Rosanne Haggerty, President and CEO of Community Solutions.

Haggerty is an internationally recognized leader in developing innovative strategies to end homelessness. Community Solutions assists communities throughout the US and internationally in implementing systems that measurably end homelessness and change the conditions that produce it. Their large-scale initiatives include the 100,000 Homes Campaign and Built for Zero. Earlier Rosanne founded and led Common Ground Community, a pioneer in the development of supportive housing models and other research based practices that end homelessness.

During the webinar Haggerty will discuss actionable solutions to ending chronic homelessness and the importance of communities in these efforts. Join us to learn more from an internationally distinguished housing leader about what you can do in your business and community to help with the housing crisis.

Date & Time
Thursday, April 6

Location
Webinar