Affirmed our commitment to fight against racism and insist on racial justice.

In January 2020, we announced that one of our priorities for the year would be to elevate racial justice across our efforts, because we know that racism is a threat to public health and that we can’t achieve better health outcomes for everyone if we don’t take on racism. To assist us in embedding racial justice throughout all work streams of the organization, we hired racial justice leader Rinku Sen to work with staff and conduct an audit of PI’s reports, presentations, and communications materials. We applied what we learned from this work to inform our organization’s processes and direction as well as our support for the grassroots mobilization for Black lives that was sparked by the murder of George Floyd (End racism. Our lives depend on it, Black lives matter: Coming together to take action. We also welcomed Natoya Walker Minor and Judge Sharon Burney to our board of directors, both of whom bring leadership that bolsters our efforts to achieve health equity and racial justice. This work was supported by multiple funders. Photo by Marley Pollack on Instagram.