IMLA

Diversity/Equity/Inclusion Book Club Meeting
2022-08-17 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
If you care to take part in this call, please email cstorer@imla.org.
Join us August 17th from 3-4 pm ET to discuss Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott. It is BYOB—bring your own book, booze, or both.
Synopsis: In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City’s homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care. Out on the street, Dasani becomes a fierce fighter “to protect those who I love.” When she finally escapes city life to enroll in a boarding school, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family, and yourself?

Homelessness Working Group Conference Call
2022-09-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-10-06 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-11-03 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-12-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-01-05 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-02-02 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-03-02 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-04-06 14:00 - 15:00 and 3 more dates
If you care to take part in this call, please email cstorer@imla.org.

Counties Working Group Call
2022-09-07 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-03-01 15:00 - 16:00

Small/Rural Communities Working Group Call
2022-09-19 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-01-17 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-03-20 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-05-15 14:00 - 15:00

Climate Change Working Group Call
2022-09-28 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-10-26 15:00 - 16:00

Police Alternatives Working Group Call
2023-01-09 14:00 - 15:00

Diversity Working Group Call
2023-01-11 15:00 - 16:00
If you care to take part in this call, please email cstorer@imla.org.
Welcome back to everyone for the 2023 year! This meeting will be an open discussion on what DEI topics you would like to see in webinars, zoom meetings, and book clubs for the 2023 year. We are open to suggestions that either directly impact your local government, current issues, and/or programs and solutions you would like to spotlight.

New Lawyers Working Group Call
2023-02-13 14:00 - 15:00

Police Alternatives Call
2023-02-21 14:00 - 15:00

Diversity / Equity / Inclusion Book Club Meeting
2023-02-23 15:00 - 16:00
If you care to take part in this call, please email dshahnami@imla.org.
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones. This is a book that speaks directly to our current moment, contextualizing the systems of race and caste within which we operate today. It reveals long-glossed-over truths around our nation’s founding and construction—and the way that the legacy of slavery did not end with emancipation, but continues to shape contemporary American life.

New Lawyers Call
2023-05-09 13:00 - 14:00
Claims under the Freedom of Information Act (FIOA) can be challenging to handle. This presentation will go over general FOIA issues and how to avoid them.
Presenter: Lynn Sprately, City of Newport News, Virginia
If you care to take part in this call, please email dshahnami@imla.org.

Code Enforcement Call
2023-05-22 15:00 - 16:00
If you care to take part in this call or working group, please email cstorer@imla.org.

DEI Book Club Meeting
2023-05-24 15:00 - 16:00
If you care to take part in this call or working group, please email dshahnami@imla.org.
JOIN US May 10th from 3-4 pm ET to discuss How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood by PE Moskowitz. It is BYOB (Bring Your Own Book/Booze). We welcome those who read the book and those who did not have time but are interested in the topic. This book is also available on Audible! Below is the Amazon description of the book:
The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. P. E. Moskowitz’s How to Kill a City takes readers from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised. Along the way, Moskowitz uncovers the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification in New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York. The deceptively simple question of who can and cannot afford to pay the rent goes to the heart of America’s crises of race and inequality. In the fight for economic opportunity and racial justice, nothing could be more important than housing.

Elected Attorney Meeting
2023-06-12 14:00 - 15:00

Counties Meeting
2023-07-05 15:00 - 16:00
