Envisioned as a program to educate attendees about the issues involved in the name change and to hear neighbors’ ideas, the teach-in will last about one hour and will feature a speaker and a question and answer/discussion period.

Speakers will be:

Sandy Turner who has lived in Mendocino County for 36 years, almost all of that time in Redwood Valley, moved to Fort Bragg 3 years ago. He has worked with kids much of that time as a school bus driver and then as a teacher in Ukiah area schools, and, now retired, he volunteers at Dana Gray School. He has long been active with non-profit organizations in the Ukiah area and has been involved with 3 or 4 here on the coast in the last three years.

Amanda Cruise, who is an artist, writer, educator, facilitator and earth based healer. She founded Wild Soul Medicine and over the last fifteen years has helped many people lift stress, distress and trauma individually and collectively, through the healing power of nature, art, subtle and deep soul work. Amanda was born in Rome, Italy, and raised multilingual in multiple countries, providing her with a wealth of exposure to the many below the surface ways that racism, oppression, and toxic patriarchal systems can permeate people, places and communities. She will talk about the effort to rename  streets and remove statues in Glasgow, Scotland which honor those who profited from slavery.