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Communal Safety Symposium: Confronting Hate Crimes and Uncertain Times

Date: 
August 25, 2021
TIME: 
8:30 AM - 11:00 AM
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Free

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When we gathered in September 2019 for the Security in Houses of Worship Interfaith Symposium, we could not have imagined how different our world would look in two years. Together with the San Francisco Interfaith Council, the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Islamic Network Group, the San Francisco Foundation, and the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, this virtual symposium will bring our communities together to hear from experts on organizing and empowering communities to deal with challenges facing us all, from a rise in hate crimes, bigotry, Islamophobia, and antisemitism, to navigating uncertainty as we resume gathering for communal activities.

8:30-9:00            Welcome and Connection

9:00-9:50            Panel on Community Resilience and Confronting Hate Crimes

Michelle Myles Chambers, San Francisco Foundation FAITHS

Maha Elgenaidi, Islamic Networks Group

Tyler Gregory, Jewish Community Relations Council

Justin Lock, Community Relations Service, US Department of Justice

10:00 -10:50 Positive Preparedness and Empowerment in Uncertain Times

A conversation with Ana-Marie Jones (“Ms. Duct Tape”), Interpro Inc.

10:50-11:00       Closing Remarks

Interests: Virtual
Organized By: 
JFCF
Event Contact Person: 
Rafael Brinner
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RafaelB@sfjcf.org
Speakers: 
Ana-Marie Jones
Since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, Ana-Marie Jones has been a passionate advocate for transforming emergency readiness and disaster resilience. She incorporates marketing, research, humor, and active audience engagement as she shares preparedness as an uplifting and meaningful pursuit for all communities. Known online as “MsDuctTape” she is a popular keynote speaker and facilitator. In 2012, for her innovative work with nonprofits, faith agencies, and the diverse communities they serve, Ana-Marie was inducted into the Women in Emergency Management and Homeland Security Hall of Fame. Ana-Marie Jones has won 3 Cable Telly Awards and other recognition for her work in creating solutions and championing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the field of emergency management.
Tye Gregory
Tye joined JCRC as its fifth executive director in April of 2020. He was previously executive director of A Wider Bridge (AWB), a New York-based partner organization of JCRC that is working to advance LGBTQ equality and inclusion in Israel. During his six years as deputy director and later executive director of AWB, the organization grew from a Bay Area startup to a leading voice for Jewish and Israel inclusion in the fabric of LGBTQ and progressive America. Before AWB, Gregory spent several years working for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in San Francisco. He is a graduate of UC Davis, and a native of San Diego.
Michelle Myles Chambers
Michelle’s grandparents were part of the Oakland Community Organizations (OCO) for over 40 years where she began organizing and educating her community of their rights to demand our government to provide the same services for low-income communities as it did for upper-class communities. Michelle joined the FAITHS Program as a lay leader of the West Side Missionary Baptist Church and now leads as the FAITHS Senior Program Officer representing the San Francisco Foundation for 20+ years.​

Michelle serves on the board of the Sisters of St. Joseph Healthcare Foundation, is a member of Episcopal Impact Fund Program Committee, while still actively involved in the West Oakland community. She is married for 35 years to Reverend Ken Chambers, and the Mother of their 4 children, and 4 grandchildren. ​​

Her motto is “Service to others is simply the price we pay for living.” -Marian Wright Edelman​
Maha Elgenaidi
Maha is the founder of ING and author of training handbooks on outreach for American Muslims as well as training seminars for public institutions on developing cultural competency with the American Muslim community. She received an M.A. in religious studies from Stanford University and B.A in political science and economics from the American University in Cairo. She has taught classes on Islam in the modern world in universities such as the University of California at Santa Cruz, and has been recognized with numerous awards, including the “Civil Rights Leadership Award” from the California Association of Human Relations Organizations, the “Citizen of the Year Award” from the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, and the "Dorothy Irene Height Community Award" from the NAACP-Silicon Valley. She’s currently a member of the Council of Advisors for the Freedom Forum that helps shape American views on the First Amendment; the County of Santa Clara's Hate Crimes Task Force; and the Ethnic Studies Committee of ARUSD in San Jose, CA.
Justin Lock
Justin Lock is the Special Assistant for AANHPI Issues with the US Department of Justice Community Relations Service (CRS) in the San Francisco Field Office.  Justin previously served in the CRS Midwest Regional Office. In this capacity, he assists communities with resolving and responding to racial tensions and other conflicts related to protected identity such as color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or disability as well as response to and prevention of tensions resulting from violent hate crime.  During his time with the agency, he has provided agency services n addressing incidents targeting the AAPI community such as the 2012 Oak Creek Gurdwara Shooting, discrimination against the Burmese refugee community in Indiana, bias and hate against Hmong farmers in Minnesota, and hate attacks in California and New York related to covid19 misinformation. He currently chairs the DOJ CRS API CRIB Working Group (Asian Pacific Islander Covid19 Related Incidents of Bias). He is an alumnus of Brown University, Harvard Kennedy School, and Chicago-Kent College of Law.
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