Black youth in Minneapolis/St. Paul currently face the highest disparities in racial wealth gaps, employment, and educational attainment due to systemic challenges that have yet to be dismantled. What do solutions to close these racial equity gaps look like when young adults are not only the center of this work, but co-designers using their lived experience to inform the systems and structures that should be altered to ensure they are not only able to reach their academic and career goals, but thrive. Join this discussion and learn about efforts to create positive, impactful, measurable change.
After this session, you will:- Understand how to bring diverse stakeholders across a complex ecosystem together with common vision.
- Understand ways and methods to having young adults at the center of co-designing solutions as active participants in the process.
- Understand key insights to the research and the process of prioritizing solutions with young adults."
