Calling forth community voices and the lived experience of Angelenos.

The Imagine Racial Equity project is a City-wide project to create a space for sustained community engagement, truth-telling, and restorative justice, reflected by clear pathways for realizing equity in City operations and services through the combined work of the City’s Chief Equity Officer, the Civil + Human Rights Department, the proposed Office of Racial Equity, Executive Directive 27: “Racial Equity in City Government”, the private-sector-focused Racial Equity & Newly Empowered Workplaces (RENEW) Task Force, and community-led consultations. 

The Imagine Racial Equity project will foster understanding between city government and community members and it will offer and promote opportunities for community dialogue. The Imagine Racial Equity project will work in consultation with the embRACE Equity Alliance, a broad coalition of L.A.-based social justice organizations that are committed to racial equity, encourage the use of truth-seeking models, and will coordinate a multi-stakeholder partnership that calls forth community voices and the lived experience of Angelenos. These community inputs will prioritize those impacts on which the city should take immediate action, and explore restorative justice and/or reconciliation efforts.