Putting Equity-Minded Policy Into Practice
Darlene Flynn
Darlene Flynn, executive director of race and equity for the city of Oakland, CA, discusses the successful strategies she has adopted for developing and implementing policies in support of the creation of a more just and equitable city. In an interactive conversation, Flynn focuses on the common constraints and challenges that policymakers and practitioners face. What is the vision forward?
Free parking is available for this event by request. Please email jennett.murphy@virginia.edu for more information. Refreshments will be served.
This event is part of the Local Equity and Democracy (LEAD) Working Group Colloquium Series, Spring 2024. The LEAD Working Group is supported by the Karsh Institute of Democracy through the Ellen P. and Robert H. Pate Working Groups fund, supported by Mary Ellen P. and Scott C. Barton. This event is co-sponsored by the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Batten Assistant Professor Peter Johannessen serves on the LEAD Working Group.
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Speakers
Darlene Flynn
Executive Director, Department of Race and Equity, City of Oakland, CA
Darlene Flynn
Executive Director, Department of Race and Equity, City of Oakland, CA
Darlene Flynn began her career in public service with the City of Seattle, doing policy development and constituent services for then Councilmember and Land Use Chair, James Street. Following opportunities to work for Seattle Public Utilities and Department of Neighborhoods, she joined the Seattle Office for Civil Rights. There she was an early program architect and was the Policy and Capacity Building Lead from the inception of their groundbreaking Race & Social Justice Initiative. In this position, she provided strategic planning, policy design, implementation, and training support to the initiative focused on ending institutional racism in city government. Flynn also served four years (2003–2007) on the Seattle School Board and on its executive committee, first as the at-large member and then as vice president. In 2016 Flynn accepted the position of director of the new Department of Race and Equity in Oakland, California, where she is currently applying her public policy and equity expertise to lead and support Oakland’s efforts to create a more just and equitable city.