Race Equity: Finding Comfort in Uncomfortable Times

Presented by: Marcus Brooks - Foundation for Healthy St. Petersburg, Community Engagement Advocate Manager - Center for Health Equity

Join us for a conversation about the impact of race in the financial industry and ways to better understand and navigate uncomfortable conversations about race.

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Wednesday, November 4, 2020

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Advance reservations are required

CGP Tampa Bay Members Free or $10.00 Donation

Guests - $15.00

Please register to be sent the link/code to join the Session.

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ANNUAL SPONSORS:

• American Cancer Society
• Community Foundation of Tampa Bay
• Fisher & Sauls, P.A. 
  
• Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital Foundation
• Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns, LLP
• Saint Leo University
• USF Foundation, Office of Gift Planning

SPEAKER BIO:

In his role as Community Engagement Advocate – Manager for Center for Health Equity, Marcus A. Brooks works with multiple sectors of the community to gather input for shaping the programming and overall culture of the Center for Health Equity. He advances the race equity mission by building neighborhood, city, and corporate relations and challenging groups to think of the work they do from a race equity lens. He has worked on a wide range of issues related to health equity including work to minimize disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice system.

Marcus has been trained in the Courageous Conversation About Race Protocol and Facilitation for Social Change Masterclass. He attended the 2019 Foundation staff tour of civil rights museums and historical sites to advance his understanding of the history of race equity and social change.

Marcus’ past positions include, Director of Development for Eckerd Connects, Development Officer at St. Petersburg College Foundation and Marketing Manager/Regional Director of the Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay. He served as a trustee of the Foundation 2016-17. He graduated from Florida State University with a B.S. degree in Political Science.

Marcus is a proud 4th generation Pinellas County native, spending much of his childhood between Clearwater and St. Petersburg. He currently resides in Palm Harbor with his wife and two young sons. When Marcus isn’t watching soccer or basketball with his boys, you can find him engaging in some form of physical activity.