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We have not really, as a country, created space to begin to dialogue and be accountable
for what racism has done to people in general.
For Salinas itself the work that we've done to recognize racial equity and racial
healing has left a whole number of people, from city government to community,
with a language, with a perception, and with some practices that have now integrated this work
There was a group of young people that wanted to put together an event called Ciclovia Salinas
which is the only youth-led open streets event across the nation.
We supported them along this process to get the event to happen but in order to do that, we leveraged
our relationship that we had started to build with the city of Salinas.
Building Healthy Communities is looking at health holistically.
We are trying to improve the lives of residents and really looking at it through a policy
and systems change approach.
We had been working closely with Building Healthy Communities and we had had some
great successes working on programs like Ciclovia.
It was an enormous logistical effort
and we looked at that and said, "If we can do this, there is more that we can do."
That led to the work around the economic development, because it was the first time that
the city had trusted BHC to get something done…
Our relationship was really strengthening with the city around this process,
Then, you have the four officers involved shootings and four men, Latinos, were killed.
Located just south of the Greater Bay Area, the Salinas Valley is known as the Salad Bowl of the world.
Around three quarters of the city's 160,000 residents are Latino, many of whom work in agriculture.
Like many American cities, Salinas neighborhoods are racially segregated.
East and West Salinas are physically divided by the 101 Freeway, the low-income Latino
population almost exclusively making up the East Side.
Over time, a pattern of discrimination in the city emerged, in which East Salinas received significantly
lower budgetary allocations, for schools, roads, and public space, than the west side of the city.
Starved for city development dollars, on the one hand, and subjected to targeted policing on the other,
The 2014 police shootings sparked a public outcry to these long simmering tensions
It became clear in some of the tensions that were expressed in a few demonstrations that
race clearly was at the center of this… we needed to somehow face that challenge.
I sat down with a representative of the California Endowment.
I said, "I feel like we need to do more."
She said, "You do need to do more, and this is what I want you to do."
Our program manager Lauren Padilla-Valverde proposed the idea, "Why don't you go to this Racial Justice
Institute in Oakland put on by Race Forward?"
As a result of that trip to Oakland,
It became clear that the next step was to take some action, to commit to additional
training and explore the unique approach in the city of Salinas.
I think for the city officials, what it did for them, that training was help them drop some of
their natural defenses and begin to widen their gaze to ask themselves the question,
"Are there policies and practices, that are actually creating more division, and that if we
developed a different set of practices could really bring people together and make things better?"
I wanted to introduce Rinku Sen...
In 2014, city officials and BHC, partnering with Race Forward and the National Compadres
Network, jointly launched the Governing for Racial Equity Initiative, or GRE.
GRE's first phase would offer training and consultation to both Salinas city staff and
residents to address the traumas caused by structural racism as well as identify policy-based solutions.
I was attracted the idea of the trauma and healing framework because so
much of my work has put me in touch with the tremendous mental
health toll that racial inequity takes on people.
Certainly, it takes a tremendous toll on the people who are victims of racial inequity
and who are suffering from it, but fixing those situations is also an emotionally-fraught
process for the people within systems.
The beauty of this training is, it's the head and the heart.
It's the head that really are talking about policies and procedures and structures and
all of that, but the heart of it, really, are the people that are moving this along.
We've done it from that ground up, really trying to change the hearts and the minds
of people that are working in systems so that they then would have the wherewithal and the
will to then begin to look at how we change policies, how we change systems, how we change structures.
In order for people to do things differently, they often have to build up the emotional
muscle to, be able to hear the critiques that are coming to them with an open mind and heart.
I found that in our trainings, that white city workers in the two days that they were hearing
from their colleagues of color even, that certain practices of the city have a negative effect,
just their emotional openness made them able to understand, "Oh, I can have a good intention
and still be carrying out practices that have a bad impact."
[Translated from Spanish]
We asked for a Spanish resident training, because our population, the majority is monolingual speaking.
Folks were able to have really honest conversations because we got to a place where we could be
really vulnerable.
I never want institutions to be on their own in doing racial equity work.
The effort to make this city into a racially-equitable city is deeply grounded in the actual participation
and the investment of residents.
One of the things that I've been most impressed with in this training is that I can see
the way that the system runs, and how there are racial differences that separate people
from the system.
One of the things that has been so different about this training is
seeing where that real lived experience comes from.
That's been kind of hard knowing that there hasn't been a lot of trust in this community
and we're going to have to prove that we can change.
The real test of the GRE initiative is not only about how it can transform individual
attitudes, but also how the initiative can address structural racism by changing the
allocation of resources and real life outcomes of disenfranchised city residents.
The city is really being intentional on who they have on hiring panels.
Specifically, I've sat on panels to hire police officers which I think is something really
critical to our community because often, we hear that police officers that are being hired
don't necessarily look and reflect our community.
I was surprised to find that we were talking about race as a factor, something that I
don't know would have happened before the trainings.
We did a lot of trainings around budget, with an orientation on racial equity and healing,
This year during the city budget was the first time that we felt
the city staff had actually taken careful
considerations in budgeting.
They actually started allocating funds in places like library and community services,
investing in walkability for our community
Two parks on the east side received more funding than other parks on other side of the town
which doesn't usually happen.
We had a limited amount of money to make repairs to playground equipment
Every one of the playgrounds that was worn out was in one of the poor parts of our town,
on the East side, so those are the ones we fixed.
Now, that sounds really simple, but it was really complicated,
We're constantly pushing up against a political framework with an elected official that believes
they know where the resources should go, and us having to stand up and say "no, this is where
the money goes."…
On a larger basis, there are multiple planning efforts underway, including
what we call the "Alisal Vibrancy Plan"
In one of our economic development element meetings, there was a Latino farm working
resident that said, "Why don't we have a plan specific for East Salinas?"
Given that there was a Downtown Vibrancy Plan.
We heard that and we thought it's an excellent idea.
We should be pushing for it.
We did a lot of advocacy work in getting the city to really look at investing in an Alisal Vibrancy Plan.
The Alisal Vibrancy Plan is a blueprint for investment in the city's largely Latino East Side
As the main thoroughfare running between the East and West Sides, Alisal Street is also
the site of the annual youth-led festival, Ciclovia.
The fact that their community on one same street is segregated from one point to another,
it just impacts the way our community is built.
There's people that have never come to East Side Salinas, and they see that there's
so much here that's to be offered.
And that fact that Ciclovia helps unify both sides of town, it's something that has really
come to change the perception of Salinas.
Let me be clear, this is going to be a long term process
These particular projects that we see... but more, there's a whole ideology that is changing.
And I think when you change the ideology and you begin to change systems,
now that's really transformative
Structural racism, this is a monster of a problem.
This is deeply rooted in our nation, in our county, in our government, our state, everywhere.
Because I have been so invested in the work, I'm really optimistic on its outcomes.
We look at GRE as a systemic intervention, one that changes the fabric and culture of
our organization so that we become more relevant to our community, more connected to our community,
and have a better understanding of how to serve our community.
We need each other in this time to build the city that we all want, and to transform a
city that's old, has had struggle, and wants to go forward and wants to be new.
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