[ONLINE] - Crisis Conversations — Live From Better Life Lab

The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting virtually everything about the way we work, live, connect with one another and expect from our government, businesses, communities and each other. And it’s exposing the deep cracks and inequities in American society. We can’t go back.  So what will it take to create a fairer future of work and family? That’s what the Better Life Lab explores every week. Join us on Zoom to share stories, make sense of what’s so rapidly unfolding, and imagine together a better new normal.

As protests erupt across the country following the death of George Floyd, another black man who died at the hands of a white police officer, and as data continues to emerge showing how the pandemic is disproportionately impacting families and communities of color, including unemployment rates, COVID-19 fatalities and exclusions from new family-supportive policies, join us on Friday, June 5 at 1 pm Eastern time, for a 30-minute interactive conversation on the structural racism the pandemic and protests are laying bare, and what needs to change to end it and create a better, fairer America.

Host:

Brigid Schulte
Director, Better Life Lab at New America

Guests:

Angela Hanks
Deputy Executive Director of the Groundwork Collaborative and author of Structural Racism is Exacerbating the Coronavirus Pandemic for Black People - Especially Black Women

Autumn McDonald
Senior Fellow & Head of New America California
Host of New America California's COVID and the Black Community online conversations.

Dr. Nicole Mason
President and CEO of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research

Kemi Role
Director of Work Equity at the National Employment Law Project