“Collaboration can only be built on relationships and shared vision”
This quote from Adrienne Marie Brown’s “Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds” set the tone for the WAIC retreat on Saturday, January 15.
Much of our time together was spent learning more about each other, discussing what a diverse, equitable, and inclusive Wilsonville would look like to us, and reflecting upon what energized or held us back in 2021. The posture of grounding our work in relationships and reflection before advancing to 2022, is an intentional practice to break from how we are too often programmed with a “next is better” mindset.
We are grateful for the 13 Wilsonville community members that took time out of a Saturday morning to join and take the next step forward in making Wilsonville a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable place. A huge thanks to Cat Allard, Jay Edwards, Chelsea King, Christy Thompson, Aaron Woods, and Garet Prior who helped prepare for this time of engagement!
Join an activity team, we need your help!
For each of these activities, there are at least two people who attended the WAIC retreat and volunteered to help work on each one. By completing this survey your information will be collected by the WAIC administration team in order to connect you with your neighbors to work on accomplishing these activities. Your information will not be shared externally. Please contact us at connect@wilsonvillealliance.org if you have any questions or want to discuss your involvement before completing the form.
Please complete this survey to add your contact information to one of the following activity teams:
Celebration
Juneteenth celebration
Intentional Dialogue
Person-to-person community discussion events
Forums or panels on charged and difficult community issues
Story sharing of diverse perspectives (multimedia through WAIC website)
Advocacy
Establishing emergency housing in Wilsonville
Election questionnaires for diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in Wilsonville
Space for youth afterschool programming and organizing
Please complete this survey to add your contact information to one of the activity teams.
Do you have other ideas for activities that you would like to partner with WAIC in 2022?
If yes, we would love to hear about it. Please contact us at connect@wilsonvillealliance.org.