**2025 INTERRUPT RACISM™ IMPACT SUMMIT**

SCHEDULE

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November 3, 2025, 8:30am-4:30 pm EST

Hyatt Regency Rochester, 125 E Main St, Rochester, NY

  
      Time
      Session / Activity
      Details
    
      8:30 AM
      Doors Open
      Seating and networking, visit vendors
    
      9:00 AM
      Call to Order
      Dr. Candice Lucas
    
      9:05 AM
      Opening Prayer
      Rev. Sebrone Johnson
    
      9:10 AM
      Remarks
      Mayor Malik Evans and County Executive Adam Bello
    
      9:20 AM
      Opening Plenary
      Dr. Seanelle Hawkins, President & CEO, Urban League of Rochester
    
      9:50 AM
      Transition
      Visit vendors
    
      10:00 AM
      I: Panel Discussions
      
        Session 1 – Interrupt: Wisdom of the Ages (sit at the feet of the elders to learn from past experiences and to shape our future)

        Mr. James Norman, Ms. Essie Calhoun-McDavid, Mr. Stuart Mitchell, Mr. Rodney Young, Ms. Shirley Thompson, Dr. Hank Rubin, Dr. Frederick Jefferson (Elder) | Moderator: Tom Mitchell

        Session 2 – Impact: Keeping Our Promise (hear from local leaders about promises made and kept to embrace equity within their organizations)

        Rev. Myra Brown, Alex Castro, Angie Perez-Delgado, Marisa Geitner, Dr. LaShunda Leslie-Smith, Larry Marx | Moderator: Robert J. Duffy

        Session 3 – Ignite: Claim Your Seat at the Table (meeting this moment in time with a strategy for action)

        ROC Community Table

        Session 4 – Inspire: Youth Voice – From Doctrine to Disenfranchisement | High School Scholars lead the historical reckoning of U.S. racism (Wilson Magnet High School and ROC the Future Alliance)

        Ro'Niyah Bentley, Robert Holley, Angel Manning, Clay Nelson, Haji Noor
      
      11:30 AM
      Break and Transition
      Visit vendors
    
      12:00 PM
      Legacy Luncheon
      Legacy Awards and Keynote Address by Dr. Ashley Cross
    
      1:45 PM
      Break and Transition
      Visit vendors
    
      2:00 PM
      II: Workshops
      
        Breakout Sessions:

        RASE: The Next Phase – Members of the RASE Commission Community Advancing Recommendation Teams

        Education: Where Hope Grows: Equitable Education as a Catalyst for Systemic Change – Dr. Cait Loury and Shae Singletary

        Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: To DEI or Not to DEI, That is the Question – Jamie Warren

        Environmental Justice: AI in Social Change Work, a Double-Edged Sword – Abigail McHugh-Grifa, Ph.D. and Todd Butler

        Law and Politics: Planning for the Inevitable: Preparing the Community for SNAP Benefit Cuts – Denise Read

        Youth Voice – Youth Only
      
      3:15 PM
      Afternoon Plenary
      
        Securing Our Legacy presented by JP Morgan Chase

        Securing Your Legacy is a tour first launched in 2024 and hosted by Abode Alliance alongside our community partners like the Urban League of Rochester. This tour is focused on empowering individuals and families with information on how to build, protect, and preserve wealth for themselves and for the next generation. We seek to support communities as we enter a time when the large aging baby boomer population will result in a great transfer of wealth to younger generations. This transfer is expected to occur over the next two decades as Baby Boomers, who hold a significant portion of the world's wealth, pass on their assets to their heirs. Securing Your Legacy continues its mission to build, preserve, and protect generational wealth in underserved communities throughout New York State. This panel provides actionable strategies for wealth transfer, empowering participants to leave a legacy for future generations.

        Panel: Audra Barrow, Esq.; Breauna Crumpler, VP Banker, J.P. Morgan Private Bank; Deborah Johnson (Moderator)
      
      4:15 PM
      Next Steps and Closing
      Dr. Seanelle Hawkins
    
      4:30 PM
      End