The Pierce County Community Engagement Task Force, driven by WorkForce Central’s passion for keeping DEAI (Diversity, Equity, Accountability, and Inclusion) at the forefront of what we do, is excited to bring you the 2025 Lens of Equity Summit at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center on Thursday, February 20, 2025. This time, we’re doubling down on advancing racial equity and justice, ensuring that our community remains at the core of every conversation.
This summit will build on our ongoing mission to confront the racial disparities embedded in the systems that have strategically devalued our communities, therefore shaping our lives here in Pierce County. Real change begins with the community—amplifying the voices of those most impacted and uplifting our residents and small businesses to lead the push for equity. We focus on ensuring everyone, especially those from historically undervalued groups, has a seat at the table and that their experiences drive the movement for justice.
We will have open and honest conversations to bring our communities closer, challenge racial inequities, and develop collective solutions. The power to transform our systems relies on each of us—within our neighborhoods, organizations, workplaces, and culture. The Lens of Equity Summit is a space for reflection, dialogue, and action, highlighting that community-led efforts are essential to achieving racial equity.
Join us as we build a more just Pierce County. Tickets go on sale October 21. Click here to learn more and to sign up for updates about this event. This is more than just a summit—it’s a movement for lasting change. We hope you’ll be part of it.
Gads.
“Woke” is so yesterday. How about Unity, Equality and Individualism? Isn’t that what this Country was founded upon? Go woke go broke.
These “programs” are like a peacock in a dog fight: all feathers and no functional substance.
The real meaning behind “woke” words. Control the language; control the debate. If it sounds like Marxism it’s because it is.
“Diversity”: emphasis on what makes us different to align us with various competing interest groups as a means of making centralized control easier. Antonym:” unity”.
“Equity”: removing alleged ‘disparities’ to level everyone out to the same level even if that means reducing that level to the lowest common denominator just to make it “fair”. Equality of outcomes isn’t equality. Antonym: “equality of opportunity”.
“Inclusion”: pigeon holing individuals into pre-determined homogeneous groups so that individuals no longer identify as individuals but rather as group members. Antonym: “individualism”.