NO. 6

Community Conversation sponsored by Faegre Drinker: Community Reflections on NO. 6

Thursday, March 18, 2021 | Event at 6 PM | Zoom Room
Please join IRT for a virtual conversation featuring community reflections on NO. 6. Detra Mills, IRT Board member and Chair of its Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, will facilitate this panel discussion on the racial injustice issues explored in NO. 6. Detra serves as VP, Deputy General Counsel & Compliance Officer, with Round Room Holdings, Inc.

Panelists include Sibeko Jywanza, Director of Food Justice, Flanner House and Operating Manager, Cleo’s Bodega and Café; Dr. Lasana D. Kazembe, Assistant Professor in IUPUI's School of Education and the Africana Studies Program; Dawn Higgins, Retired IMPD Sergeant; and David Sklar, Assistant Director & Director of Government Affairs, the Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council.

To attend this free community conversation, please sign up here. This program will also be shared live on IRT’s Facebook page.

 

Community Conversation sponsored by Faegre Drinker: Talking Past: Words Deleted, History Repeated 

Thursday, March 25, 2021 | Event at 6 PM | Zoom Room

Please join the IRT for a dynamic virtual conversation in response to our production NO. 6. Julian Harrell, an attorney at Faegre Drinker, serves as an IRT Board member and member of its Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee. He will help explore questions like: how do we make space to have difficult conversations and discuss varying approaches to social justice issues? Julian will facilitate a panel of legal- and compliance-oriented minds regarding how they address, engage in, and implement social justice advocacy, policy, and law making.  

Panelists include Ahmed Young, Chief of Staff/General Counsel, Indianapolis Public Schools; Ash Lee Talley, General Counsel, Anthem; and Ryan Danley, Compliance & Ethics Coordinator–North American Region for American Honda Motor Co.   

To attend this free community conversation, please register here. This program will also be shared live on IRT’s Facebook page.

 

IRT Community Conversation sponsored by Faegre Drinker: Racial Justice and Policing in our Communities 

Monday, March 29 | Event at 6 PM | Zoom Room

Please join the IRT for a virtual conversation in response to our production of NO. 6. Alan Mills, Partner at Barnes & Thornburg and IRT Board Member, will facilitate this panel discussion on the ways the play mirrors the riots and police action of this past summer. Written by playwright T.J. Young in response to riots in Ferguson in 2014, we are asked to contemplate what has changed and what continues to stand in our way of racial equity. Panelists include IRT Board Member Myra Selby, Partner, Ice Miller; Aaron J. Williamson, Principal, Williamson Civil Law; Dr. Monet Bowling, Hendricks Regional Health; and Denise Herd, President, Herd Strategies. 

To attend this free community conversation, please register here. This program will also be shared live on IRT’s Facebook page.