The 2021 California Health Equity Summit: Healing Communities Beyond 2020: Our Health, Our Culture, Our Climate is scheduled to take place virtually June 10-11, 2021.
The 2021 Summit will offer an opportunity to engage and deliver a range of cultural healing practices through innovative workshops and presentations to promote learning and to advance cultural humility, social justice, and equity throughout behavioral health organizations and systems to effectively meet the diverse needs of consumers, individuals, families, and communities.
Why Attend the Summit?
Learn the importance of health equity.
Obtain tools related to traditional and indigenous healing practices, and hear presentations honoring indigenous communities.
Become more familiar with self-care practices related to healing.
Acquire tools for problem-solving through community engagement.
Opportunities to earn up to 2.5 continuing education credits.
Benefits are:
Networking opportunities.
The summit is virtual, therefore registration for participating is reduced.
Participating in diverse workshops.
Hearing dynamic keynote speakers in a comfortable setting of your choice.
Registration is by credit card only. If you are unable to pay by credit card, please contact the CIBHS Conference Dept. at (916) 379-5333.
Accommodations: For disability accommodations (e.g., sign language interpreters, alternative formats), please email Theresa Ferrini at tferrini@cibhs.org as soon as possible as advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
Other Questions: Please contact the CIBHS Conference Department at conferences@cibhs.org or (916) 379-5333.
The 2021 California Health Equity Summit: Healing Communities Beyond 2020: Our Health, Our Culture, Our Climate is scheduled to take place virtually June 10-11, 2021.
Thursday, June 10th, 2021
Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone) is the chair and spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan— she was born and raised in Oakland, CA, the village of Huichin. A mother of three and grandmother of four, Corrina is the Co-Founder and Lead Organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, a small Native run organization that works on Indigenous people issues and sponsored annual Shellmound Peace Walks from 2005 to 2009. These walks brought about education and awareness of the desecration of sacred sites in the greater Bay Area. As a tribal leader, she has continued to fight for the protection of the Shellmounds, uphold her nation’s inherent right to sovereignty, and stand in solidarity with her Indigenous relatives to protect our sacred waters, mountains, and lands all over the world.
Her life’s work has led to the creation of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, a women-led organization within the urban setting of her ancestral territory of the Bay Area. Sogorea Te’ Land Trust works to return Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Based on an understanding that Oakland is home to many peoples that have been oppressed and marginalized, Sogorea Te works to create a thriving community that lives in relation to the land. Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, the Land Trust calls on native and non-native peoples to heal and transform legacies of colonization, genocide, and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do.
Friday, June 11th, 2021
Stacey Abrams is a political leader, voting rights activist and New York Times bestselling author. After serving for eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as Democratic Leader, in 2018, Abrams became the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, winning at the time more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. Abrams was the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States, and she was the first black woman and first Georgian to deliver a Response to the State of the Union. Over the course of her career, Abrams has founded multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social issues at both the state and national levels. She launched Fair Fight Action after the 2018 gubernatorial election to ensure every American has a voice in our election system. In 2019, she launched Fair Count to ensure accuracy in the 2020 Census and greater participation in civic engagement, and the Southern Economic Advancement Project, a public policy initiative to broaden economic power and build equity in the South.
She is a current member of the Board of Directors for the Center for American Progress and the Board of Advisors for the Women’s National Basketball Players Association. Abrams is the author of The New York Times best-selling Lead from the Outside and Our Time is Now and the forthcoming novel, While Justice Sleeps. In 2021, she received the inaugural Social Justice Impact Award from the NAACP Image Awards.
Abrams received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and Yale Law School. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, she and her five siblings grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi and were raised in Georgia.
The 2021 California Health Equity Summit: Healing Communities Beyond 2020: Our Health, Our Culture, Our Climate is scheduled to take place virtually June 10-11, 2021.
Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone) is the chair and spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan— she was born and raised in Oakland, CA, the village of Huichin. A mother of three and grandmother of four, Corrina is the Co-Founder and Lead Organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, a small Native run organization that works on Indigenous people issues and sponsored annual Shellmound Peace Walks from 2005 to 2009. These walks brought about education and awareness of the desecration of sacred sites in the greater Bay Area. As a tribal leader, she has continued to fight for the protection of the Shellmounds, uphold her nation’s inherent right to sovereignty, and stand in solidarity with her Indigenous relatives to protect our sacred waters, mountains, and lands all over the world.
Stacey Abrams is a political leader, voting rights activist and New York Times bestselling author. After serving for eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as Democratic Leader, in 2018, Abrams became the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, winning at the time more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. Abrams was the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States, and she was the first black woman and first Georgian to deliver a Response to the State of the Union. Over the course of her career, Abrams has founded multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social issues at both the state and national levels. She launched Fair Fight Action after the 2018 gubernatorial election to ensure every American has a voice in our election system. In 2019, she launched Fair Count to ensure accuracy in the 2020 Census and greater participation in civic engagement, and the Southern Economic Advancement Project, a public policy initiative to broaden economic power and build equity in the South.