BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML WPForms//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Feeds v3.9.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:True Sanctuary: SF City of Hope X-WR-CALDESC:GLIDE - San Francisco: serving the people of the Tenderloin and San Francisco since 1963 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 DTSTART:20230330T060000 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 DTSTART:20230330T060000 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:True Sanctuary: SF City of Hope DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 28th\, 2023\, 6:00 to &\;\;30 PM\n          Free\, Virtual Event. RSVP Now.\nDear GLIDE Staff\,\n\nJ oin GLIDEs Center for Social Justice and explore truths around Sanctuary Cities\, their history and why it was created and where we are today.\n \nRefugees and immigrants are one in every three San Francisco residents and are a vital part of our city’s heart and identity. In 2019\, 45% of undocumented immigrants had been U.S. residents for more than 10 year s.\n\nJoin those on the front lines to discuss why San Francisco’s his toric Sanctuary ordinance is crucial to upholding our values of equality and inclusion\, and to building safe strong communities.\n\nGLIDE’s C enter for Social Justice works to influence public policy and perception on justice and human rights. Our policy advocacy\, community organizing \, experiential education\, and thought leadership seeks to drive social change by amplifying community voices\, influencing mindsets\, creating new cultural practices\, and transforming institutions of power.\n\nHos t: Olga Talamante\n\nIs the Executive Director Emeritus of the Chicana L atina Foundation (CLF). She became the first Executive Director of CLF i n January 2003 serving in that position until March of 2018.  She recei ved her BA from UC Santa Cruz and Honorary Doctorate Degree from the Uni versity of San Francisco. She is widely respected for her community acti vism and leadership in the Chicanx\, Latin American solidarity\, LGBTQ\, Immigrant\, and progressive political movements.\n\nShe currently co-ch airs the Caravan for the Children coalition advocating for the children separated at the border.\n\nPanelists include:\n\nLariza Dugan-Cuadra\n\ nIn her role as Executive Director\, Lariza is committed to continuing t he Central American Resource Center --CARECEN SF’s 38+ years empowerin g and responding to the needs\, rights and aspirations of Latinx\, immig rant\, and under-resourced families in the San Francisco Bay Area –bui lding leadership to pursue self-determination and justice.\n\nPrior to j oining CARECEN SF in 2012\, Lariza managed community building initiative s and public service grants at the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Commu nity Development. In the late 90’s early 2000’s at KQED–Education Network she implemented early education\, media literacy and Latin@ outr each initiatives. In 2003 she founded Puentes Consulting focused on new media\, cultural content review and community development initiatives ai med at lifting the intellectual\, economic\, cultural and civic contribu tions of migrants to the social fabric of this nation and countries of o rigin.\n\nShe serves as Board Treasurer of Alianza Americas[1]– A tran snational network of 50+ immigrant-led organizations across the United S tates and Latin America\; She is a member elected Concilio Member of the San Francisco Latinx Parity and Equity Coalition\, and 2023 How Women L ead\, Latina Cohort Fellow.\n\nShe earned a Bachelor’s in Humanities w ith emphasis in Community Development &\; a Minor in La Raza Studies. She attended City College of San Francisco\, San Francisco State Univer sity and New College of California.\n\nSarah Souza\n\nSarah Souza serves as a legislative aide to S.F. Board President Aaron Peskin\, on the Imm igrant Rights Commission and chairs the Language Access Committee. She i s a member of IFPTE Local 21 and the vice president of the San Francisco chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement AFL-CIO. Sh e is committed to fighting for immigrant rights\, economic justice\, and advancing equitable solutions to empower the most disadvantaged communi ties including representation in government. She is an Assembly District 17 Delegate and is on the CADEM Rules Committee\, as well as a member o f the Chicano Latino Caucus of the California Democratic Party.\n\nAs a result of her advocacy and joint efforts with statewide coalitions\, the Governor signed the expansion of Earned Income Tax Credit to immigrant workers. In 2019\, she was appointed as the first Dreamer to represent S an Franciscans on the DCCC. As co-chair of SF Commissions for All\, she led campaign efforts to pass a charter amendment to allow all San Franci scans\, regardless of immigration status\, to serve on local boards and commissions. Overall\, Sarah Souza wants to bring an intersectional appr oach to policymaking and change systems that fail to respond to the most vulnerable communities in San Francisco.\n\nSofia S. Rios Dorantes\n\nS ofía (she/her)\, began volunteering with the Amigos De Cleto collective in Mexico in 1998. Sofía served LGBT and heterosexual HIV+ communities . In 2001 she fled Mexico to North Carolina and eventually San Francisco \, California to seek asylum.She came to El/La Para TransLatinas looking for services. She was part of the volunteers of the same organization. Sofía was first hired by El/La in 2018 as a Data Specialist where she r eceived Salesforce training\, making her the first Certified Latina Tran sgender Data Specialist. Since then\, she has risen through the ranks to become the first Deputy Director at El/La\, demonstrating the mission a nd vision of El/La Para TransLatinas.\n\nShe is an indigenous Transgende r Woman from San Gabriel Chilac\, Puebla\, Mexico. She is proud of her r oots in speaking Nahuatl as well as Spanish and English.\n\nHope you cou ld join us!\n\nCenter for Social Justice\n\n \;\n\n \; URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.glide.org/events/true-sanctuary-sf-city-of-hop e/ UID:urn:uuid:534a6b53-feff-4fad-9a0e-607246a4ac38 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260414T153228Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230928T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230928T193000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR