Bernadette Onyenaka is the co-founder of the O&G Racial Equity Collaborative. Bernadette formally held the position of Racial Equity Manager for the National League of Cities Race, Equity, and Leadership (REAL) initiative. In this role, she provided technical assistance to a cohort of six cities on governing for racial equity, by engaging with local elected officials and key city staff on how develop and take strategic actions to development and implement comprehensive city-wide racial equity plans.
Jess Zimbabwe is the Principal and Founder of Plot Strategies. Until recently, she directed for ten years the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership – a partnership of the National League of Cities (NLC) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Previously, Jess was the Director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design. In that capacity she worked with over 125 American mayors and cities to help local leaders better understand issues of urban design so that they could advocate for better built environments in their own communities
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