The disproportionate impacts of the COVID pandemic have revealed health and wealth disparities now impossible to ignore. What are the social determinants of health? How can we improve quality of life and care for all? Join hosts Rev. Dr. Zina Jacque and Jessica Green for this virtual session of Courageous Conversations with interactive breakout dialogue & special guests:

• Suzet McKinney, DrPH, MPH, Director of Life Sciences at Sterling Bay

• Jeanne Ang, Director of Community Health, Advocate Health Care

• Rafael Malpica, Director of Community Relations, Advocate Health Care

Open to the public, ages 15+. Advance registration required to receive Zoom link!

• ASL sign language interpretation available upon advance request

• Before you come, please watch this short orientation video

• Tickets: $15

This series is presented by Urban Consulate with Barrington's White House. To learn more, visit CourageousCommunity.us.

When designing or participating in community experiences, do you consider access for all abilities? What does it mean to think intersectionally about barriers to belonging? Join us for this virtual session of Courageous Conversations hosted by Rev. Dr. Zina Jacque and Jessica Green and presented by Urban Consulate & Barrington’s White House, featuring special guests Jason Altmann, Director of Access and Disability Services at Harper College, and Crystal Kelley Schwartz, language mentor, educator and disability advocate. Followed by interactive breakout dialogue. 

• Open to the public, ages 15+

• Advance registration required to receive Zoom link

• ASL interpretation will be provided

• Before you come, please watch this short orientation video

• Tickets: $15

This series is presented by Urban Consulate with Barrington's White House. To learn more, visit CourageousCommunity.us

When we encounter people who reveal biased attitudes or behaviors, what do we do? Do we "call them in" for conversation, or "call them out" for prejudice, or both? How can we invite learning & growth without shaming? How can we receive feedback ourselves on our own blind spots? Join hosts Rev. Dr. Zina Jacque and Jessica Green for this virtual session of Courageous Conversations presented by Urban Consulate & Barrington’s White House, featuring special guest David M. Bailey of Arrabon, who works to equip individuals and communities to effectively engage in the work of reconciliation. Followed by interactive breakout dialogue. 

• Open to the public, ages 15+

• Advance registration required to receive Zoom link

• ASL interpretation available upon request

• Before you come, please watch this short orientation video

• Tickets: $15

This series is presented by Urban Consulate with Barrington's White House. To learn more, visit CourageousCommunity.us.

Whether intended or not, our nation has been wounded by inequality and injustice. How do we acknowledge, apologize and repair, both personally & collectively? Join hosts Rev. Dr. Zina Jacque and Jessica Green for this virtual session of Courageous Conversations presented by Urban Consulate & Barrington’s White House, featuring special guest Valarie Kaur, renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, civil rights lawyer, founder of the Revolutionary Love Project and author of See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love. Followed by interactive breakout dialogue. 

• Open to the public, ages 15+

• Advance registration required to receive Zoom link

• ASL interpretation available upon request

• Before you come, please watch this short orientation video

• Tickets: $15

This series is presented by Urban Consulate with Barrington's White House. To learn more, visit CourageousCommunity.us

Join us (virtually!) for our Courageous Conversations series in Chicagoland. To learn more, click here.

Join us (virtually!) for a new season of Courageous Conversations, broadcasting from Chicagoland.

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Join us (virtually!) for a new season of Courageous Conversations, broadcasting from Chicagoland.

Click here for details.

Join us (virtually!) for a new season of Courageous Conversations, broadcasting from Chicagoland.

Click here for details.

This session of A Year of Courageous Conversations will now take place virtually. Ticketholders will receive instructions via email. For more information about the series, visit CourageousConversations.us

This session of A Year of Courageous Conversations will now take place virtually. Ticketholders will receive instructions via email. For more information about the series, visit CourageousConversations.us