Participants included:

Pastor Mike McBride of Live Free USA, San Francisco Human Rights Commission Executive Director Sheryl Davis, UCSF trauma surgeon Rochelle A. Dicker, GIFFORDS’ policy expert Mike McLively, San Francisco Youth Commission Chair Ewan Barker Plummer, composer Gabriela Lena Frank, Innocence cast member Vilma Jää and librettists Aleksi Barrière and Sofi Oksanen and moderators including TV host/activist W. Kamau Bell and KQED’s Mina Kim. Performers include Gunna Goes Global and Chinaka Hodge.

What makes a safe healthy community?

Featuring local and national civic, arts and media leaders, this urgent day-long convening tackled topics including full circle advocacy (from grassroots to legislative) to prevent violence in our neighborhoods; community vitality, resilience, and healing; and how trauma may be thoughtfully depicted on stage, screen, and in music, from opera to hip-hop. Conceived for an audience of peacemakers, community organizers, and representatives from a host of community- and faith-based organizations, as well as members of the public, the convening not only helped attendees foster new and existing relationships, but create connectivity across sectors in order to achieve deep and focused collective impact.