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Join us next week for our webinar on the National Day of Racial Healing

One June night in 2015, the city of Charleston, South Carolina was changed forever.

Nine Black parishioners were murdered while attending an evening Bible study group at Mother Emanuel AME Church. The horror devastated the community and left many with questions. The community eventually came together to heal from what emerged as a racially motivated hate crime.

In our Exploring the Connection Between Racial Healing and Health webinar this month, we will discuss how racial healing can improve racial and health equity. Join us for this special event held on the National Day of Racial Healing. We will answer questions such as: What does racial healing look and feel like? And, who needs to be involved? Our guests from the City of Charleston will share tools, resources and stories of their own journeys toward racial healing.

Limited space remains. Register now.

Webinar

Exploring the Connection Between Racial Healing and Health

3pm ET, Tuesday, January 18th

Meet the people behind our January webinar

Guest: Amber Johnson, JD

Amber Johnson is the equity, inclusion and racial conciliation manager for the City of Charleston, the first person to ever hold this role. Johnson matriculated at Hampton University and then obtained her JD from Florida A&M University. Before joining the City of Charleston's legal department, Johnson served as an attorney at South Carolina Legal Services and practiced law in Florida and in South Carolina.

Guest: Crystal Rouse, MS, MEd

Crystal Rouse is a native of Charleston, South Carolina, and the director of collective action networks at the Tri-County Cradle to Career Collaborative.

Crystal previously served in positions with the Charleston County School District, the Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA), Bennett College, and the Children's Defense Fund. She obtained her MS in adult education from North Carolina A&T State University, and her MEd in early childhood education from the University of South Carolina. Rouse specializes in advocacy work, and as a youth organizer and anti-racism trainer.

Host: Ericka Burroughs-Girardi, MA, MPH

Ericka Burroughs-Girardi is the senior outreach specialist for County Health Health Rakings & Roadmaps, and manages CHR&R's webinar production. She served as a health equity coordinator at the Florida Department of Health, and was a founding member of Central Florida's first food policy council.