THE TRUST presented at Houston Institute for Race and Justice Inclusion Conference

This past week THE TRUST had the honor of being asked to share a work-in-progress piece from the film at the Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School's Inclusion Conference. The goal of conference was to begin developing a far-reaching plan and several related shorter-term, concrete projects through which people and organizations collectively advance an inclusive, opportunity-expanding agenda over the next decade.

Kicked off by the Houston Institute's Founder and Executive Director, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., along with an inspiration introduction by the son of the man for which the Houston Institute is named, Charles Hamilton Houston, Jr.

THE TRUST was presented as another opportunity to view media as a partner to policy and values based campaigns as demonstrated by films such as The Visitor and Trouble the Water.

Present at the conference were professors, NGO directors, law enforcement directors, Judges, and policy experts. Speakers included John Powell, Peter Edelman, Judge Harry T. Edwards, and John H. Rutherford, Sheriff of Jacksonville, Florida.

These leaders came together to identify, broad, common, values and principles that unify movements, organizations and causes that are typically separated into categories such as “criminal justice,” “public health,” “education” and “immigration”, and learn how to better communicate these values and principles through messages that reach beyond self-defined progressives.

It was exciting and inspirational to be among these prolific leaders and able to begin to take in and learn from their collective wisdom.

Thank you David Harris and Kaia Stern for inviting me, and Sheryl Jackson-Holliday for making the trip so easy and comfortable!

Continually grateful to serve...
Peace,
Tamara

Tamara Perkins
Director/Producer, THE TRUST