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6 Bringing It Together with Applications for Different Practice Communities, Collaboration, and Policy
Pages 67-74

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From page 67...
... Next, Dawn Alley introduced herself as head of health care innovation at Morgan Health (a business unit of JP Morgan Chase) and formerly the chief strategy officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
From page 68...
... Hernandez shared that panelists Klinenberg and Shandas underscored the importance of place and displacement in how people experience climate change. She noted that policies of segregation and redlining, and resulting spatial inequities, came up during the panel, with panelists describing how some neighborhoods experience more urban heat than others within the same city.
From page 69...
... Alley said this conversation around policy opportunities struck her, as she is always wanting to move beyond discussion of political will -- albeit important -- and begin discussing what can be done. She noted a key theme from that discussion and the larger workshop is the importance of acknowledging these injustices "have been intentionally created and exacerbated over multiple generations," and thus addressing them will require "coordi nated, intentional, systematic action." Alley shared a few examples the presenters identified, including Heirs' Property Standard Law, a state-based statutory framework that has been implemented in 18 states, which "shows, once you develop a template for something, how that can take off with a lot of hard work." She added that another example that came up during the conversation was around leveraging processes like qualified allocation plans for low income housing tax credits by including requirements around engaging
From page 70...
... She asked, "Where does it work better to have a really inclusive message around something like property rights, and where is doing that actually obscuring the important conversations that we need to have about historical inequities? " Rodriguez then mentioned that this panel's conversation reminded her of a short video from Fullilove's team called the Domino Effect, which describes serial forced displacement.
From page 71...
... up in solidarity with my Black brothers and sisters." Hernandez added that as a Latinx daughter of immigrants, she also feels that "my fight is definitely tied to Black liberation." She commented on the "intersectionality between our fights and [the] history of oppressive colonization that really binds us together." Alley said that for her, "almost any answer to this question feels like a drop in the bucket in the sense of the historical legacy" and "intentional multigenerational creation of the systems that we have today." At the same time, she noted, it is vital to "not let the sheer size and complexity of this issue let us off the hook for addressing it head-on and taking action." Alley shared that JP Morgan Chase has made a $30 billion commitment to racial equity over five years, including investing in Black- and Latinx-operated community development and financial institutions.
From page 72...
... She noted that she recently left the federal government, which "uses notice and comment rulemaking as a regulatory way to seek public input." However, she said, that public input was often really industry input since "those entrenched stakeholders are the ones that are paying attention to potential regulations that might affect them." Alley asked what it might look like to seek opportunities to broaden that conversation or require different kinds of engagement besides posting to the Federal Register. Hernandez said she agreed with Alley's comments and wanted to underscore the importance of foundations doing the internal work to understand the intersectionality of their funding streams and their work, to make sure their approach is robust and sustained long term.
From page 73...
... Rodriguez added that the strengths-based approach is about understanding that while a foundation may have a strategic plan and goals they set for themselves, "our grantees are the hands and feet and the heart and the brain that is going to allow us to get to that strategy," which "means that we need to think about them as coming with strengths and assets that we don't have." Then, in terms of research evidence, Rodriguez said she feels there is already enough data to inform policies and practices, and "if we know the data, then we need to muster the political will to use that data to inform our policies and practices, so that any new evidence contributes to our understanding of how all the evidence we already have has informed policies and practices." In terms of training or workforce needs, ­Rodriguez said that there is need for shared understanding of how knowledge generated in one discipline can inform work in another (e.g., knowledge generated in sociology informing public health, knowledge generated in public health informing planning, knowledge generated in planning informing law)
From page 74...
... the world that is more just, more equitable, and more community oriented."


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