“A Common Power Conversation: Athletes and Activism”

This event will highlight the transformative community engagement actions of current and former professional athletes, as well as others who work in athletics. Their work in local communities pose a fundamental model to all: use whatever platform you have to create change for the most marginalized among us.

Each person on the panel will discuss the work they are doing to create change and extend opportunities to those in need. We will then facilitate a question and answer session. We know that the work of our panelists will inspire and encourage those in attendance to both do more in their own communities and donate to the foundations of those on the panel.

The evening’s conversation will highlight how those athletes who have chosen to use their platforms and stand together with so many others in the long movement for social change — who have risked much for the cause of liberty, of justice, to force a nation to confront its reality and to make the words written in the founding documents apply to all — demonstrate that nothing is impossible. Such actions will carry us to the creation of a world of parity, a world where we honor difference and reject injustice, a world of possibility.