The Institute Launch Event: Athletes and Activism

600 Pine Street,Seattle WA 98101

03 June, 2022

Description

Current and former professional athletes, along with aligned professionals in athletics, discuss their inspiring community work. This event will highlight the transformative community engagement actions of current and former professional athletes, as well as others who work in athletics. Their work in local communities pose a fundamental model to all: use whatever platform you have to create change for the most marginalized among us. Each person on the panel will discuss the work they are doing to create change and extend opportunities to those in need. The event will be hosted by Dr. Terry Scott, an award-winning professor at Hood College, expert on US race relations and history, and incoming Director of the Institute for Common Power. Panelists will be former UW men's basketball coach Lorenzo Romar; NFL football player John Ross; Seattle Seahawks Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Karen Wilkins-Mickey; former Major League Soccer player Tony Sanneh; and former NFL player Marcus Trufant. The evening’s conversation will highlight how these individuals and their organizations have chosen to use their platforms and stand together with so many others in the long movement for social change. Those who have risked much for the cause of liberty, of justice, to force a nation to confront its reality and to make the words written in the founding documents apply to all demonstrate that nothing is impossible. Such actions will carry us to the creation of a world of parity, a world where we honor difference and reject injustice, a world of possibility. All proceeds will support the work of the Institute for Common Power. Details: Heavy hors d'oeuvres Wine and champagne provided with each ticket Cash Bar also available Business Casual Attire