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Dear Friend,
Each year, a group of us makes the intentional choice to step away from our daily responsibilities and show up together for the good of improving social challenges and conditions in California. We volunteer our time, bring our lived experiences and community concerns, and commit to engaging in a process that can often feel distant, emotionally charged, or inaccessible— civic participation.
What makes this work meaningful isn’t just the policy conversations or the setting. It’s the people.
People who carry full lives, demanding work, and personal responsibilities, yet still make space to advocate, to learn, and to stand in collective purpose to help our communities across the state.
Co-Chair
There is something powerful about working with individuals who choose to lean in, not because they have to, but because they believe in what’s possible.
We are the Black Leadership Council.
A statewide coalition of leaders seeking reforms across four policy pillars: health, wealth, housing, and education.
Our fifth annual Advocacy Day, “Black in Action,” on June 17th, is just a few months away, and we are gearing up! This full day of civic engagement is designed to move community voice into meaningful policy impact.
Civic engagement, at its best, is not transactional. It is relational. It is about building trust with our elected officials, strengthening voices — our own and others — and reminding ourselves that democracy is not something that happens somewhere else, it is something we shape together.
This work can be complex. It can be frustrating. It can require patience in systems that don’t always move at the pace of urgency we feel. But in those moments, it is our resilience that sustains the effort.
There is meaning in choosing to participate anyway.
There is meaning in being in the room.
There is meaning in doing it together.
And perhaps most importantly, there is meaning in knowing that change is not driven by a single voice, but by many, aligned in purpose, showing up again and again and again.
Help turn commitment into action by supporting the Black Leadership Council today.
To learn more about the Black leadership Council visit our website at: https://blacklc.org/ or email Tasha Henneman, Chief of Policy & Government Affairs at [email protected].