The journey for all of us to come together begins with a simple step towards each other.
Come join us in bringing about a better world for ourselves and our children.
If not you, then who? If not now, then when?

Sometimes, bold dreams require that we step forth with equally courageous action. What I have learned from life is that if we wait for our institutions or some charismatic leader to pave the way first, our dreams often fade away along with our hopes and our belief that real change will ever happen in our lifetimes. “Walking Each Other Home: A National Conversation on Race” is such a dream. It is our hope to create a space for folks of all walks of life to get to meet each other and to truly hear each other’s journey – to learn what it has taken for them to get to this room, how their life experiences have affected them, changed and shaped them into who they are today. And that perhaps, from hearing each other’s stories, they will find a place of compassion and understanding to begin a friendship based on trust and acceptance.

To me, diversity cannot just be about representation. It must have as its goal a way to bring us deeper into a relationship with each other. That is how community is created – caring for each other, believing that your children are my children, that when you fall, we all fall - and that when you rise and succeed, we all rise and we all benefit. This was the dream of many of our ancestors and the dream of all our fallen heroes – that we find a way to come together and to love one another.

Come join us in this unique opportunity to meet the folks that we have always wanted to meet, but were too afraid to because of what we’ve heard or been told. Come join us in an evening of celebrating and learning about how our differences and similarities can bring us together when we create a space for honesty, understanding, authentic listening and sharing. Someone once said that curiosity is the gateway to empathy. If that is true, then all we have to do is to ask each other questions, be open to what we hear, and be willing to learn and to change. Isn’t that what we tell our children and our students?