Past Events

Trainer: Radhika Sahai, NHRC Training Overview: This two-hour training provides an overview of stress, self-care and burnout prevention. In this workshop, participants will discuss how stress and burn out impact their work and life. Participants will also be able to explore how self-care and stress-reduction techniques can improve their workplace happiness and is a harm reduction […]

PUBLIC HEALTH SOCIAL JUSTICE SPEAKERS SERIES Reparations as a Public Health Priority Speakers: Kerby Lynch, PhD, Ceres Policy Research Corrina Gould, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust Kim DeOcampo, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust African Americans and Native Americans are two groups that have been most affected by structural racism resulting in consistent disparities in health outcomes.  Recent […]

Why hugging out racism in education just won't cut it  We spend an awful lot of time responding to racism with lines like "racism isn't welcome here" but less time asking ourselves what resources are needed to challenge racism in our schools and elsewhere. With growing examples of a resurgence of overt racism in schools, […]

Trainer: Radhika Sahai, NHRC Training Overview: This two-hour training provides an overview of stress, self-care and burnout prevention. In this workshop, participants will discuss how stress and burn out impact their work and life. Participants will also be able to explore how self-care and stress-reduction techniques can improve their workplace happiness and is a harm reduction […]

Join us for a powerful day to make the unseen more seen as we discuss the devastating impacts of sugar and coloniality on our communities. Shape Up San Francisco and the SFDPH Healthy Eating Active Living team invite you to join us for a Sugar & Decoloniality Workshop. Dr. Amber McZeal will guide participants through […]

Implicit bias is inherent in all human beings. Megan Fuciarelli believes our goal shouldn't be to eliminate these biases; but rather overcome them before they become explicit or discriminatory. Megan Fuciarelli is an educator and administrator with over 20 years of experience in the social justice realm. She is very proud of her work with […]

Training Overview: This training is designed for people with harm reduction training and experience who are looking to take their programming and care to the next level. Through a combination of history, shared experiences, case studies, and discussion, training participants will explore the ways that criminalization and exploitation has created a system that causes certain […]

PUBLIC HEALTH SOCIAL JUSTICE SPEAKERS SERIES Poverty in California: Mayors for Guaranteed Income Speakers: Libby Schaaf, Mayor of Oakland Michael Tubbs, Mayor Emeritus of Stockton & Founder of End Poverty in California Join Emeritus Mayor Michael Tubbs and Mayor Libby Schaff in a discussion of how California can address the housing and economic insecurity crisis […]

Resurgent White nationalism, the disparate racial impact of COVID-19, the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and other African Americans, are all highlighting the anguish of racism in America. Nicole Green, executive director of UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services and Tyrone Howard, professor of education and director of the UCLA Black Male Institute […]

Training Overview: This training is designed for people with harm reduction training and experience who are looking to take their programming and care to the next level. Through a combination of history, shared experiences, case studies, and discussion, training participants will explore the ways that criminalization and exploitation has created a system that causes certain […]

A topical discussion of news of the day: The Amazing Life Of Serena Williams "The day I stop fighting for equality and for people that look like you and me will be the day I'm in my grave.” Over the last decades, Serena Williams has become an icon of resilience, strength and beauty. She has […]

Russell Ellis was raised in the mountains of North Carolina where racism was “so casual it was culture”. Now he is a “reformed racist” who aims to teach other white people how to deconstruct their own racism. Listen to this powerful speech in which he talks about his childhood, the cycle of white supremacy, and […]