Mass incarceration and over-criminalization have left 70 million people in the United States—nearly 1 in 3 adults—with arrest or conviction records. Having a criminal record is proven to be an extreme impediment to accessing quality employment. The Fair Chance Workforce Project was initiated by Rise Together, Insight Center for Community Economic Development and Urban Strategies Council through a shared commitment to ensuring all people in the Bay Area have the opportunity to provide for themselves and their family, regardless of race, gender or status. This session will provide highlights from the year-long study on a Fair Chance Workforce in the Bay Area and provide best practices as well as strategic and tactical guidance to groups seeking to develop or enhance a fair-chance hiring policy and achieve tangible results in the hiring of people with records. Panel Discussion with: Ian Harriman (Speakers) Social Responsibility Chair, Checkr Rehana Lerandeau (Speakers) Fair Chance Program Manager, Checkr, Inc. Aisa Villarosa (Speakers) Associate Director of Policy and Advocacy, Insight Center for Community Economic Development Evonne Silva (Speakers) Senior Director, Criminal Justice & Workforce Development , Code for America George Colón (Speakers) Business Accounts Manager, Center for Employment Opportunities - Oakland O'Dell Johnson (Speakers) Chief Executive Officer, Research Institute for Social Equity Download Toward a Fair Chance Workforce Report & Recommendations at www.risetogetherbayarea.org/fairchance

Creating Bay Area Pathways to Opportunity will require many participants to come together to harness the resources of our region. This panel will discuss the insights and role of major funders who are supporting initiatives to provide greater Bay Area economic opportunity. Moderated by Linda Lazor, CEO, Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2) Padmini Parthasarathy, Senior Program Officer, Economic Security; Walter & Elise Haas Fund Alexandra Bastien, Financial Stability Program Officer, Silicon Valley Community Foundation Elena Chávez Quezada, Senior Director for the Expanding Access to Opportunity Pathway, The San Francisco Foundation

Roughly a million people in California who have been incarcerated or homeless, or are young adults not working and not in school face some high barriers to get on the path to economic and stability. They may not have a lot of work experience, and employers may be reluctant to hire them because of their background – all of this exacerbated by persistent racial discrimination in employment. This panel will spotlight practical approaches like social enterprise, and reinforcing policies that open up new possibilities for economic stability and mobility to those who otherwise have a tough time getting into the workforce and advancing. Panel Discussion with: Carla Javits (Speakers) President & CEO, REDF Iesha Fraser (Speakers) Director of Employment Services and Social Enterprise , Solution SF Michelle Acosta (Speakers) Marketing Director and Project Manager, Acosta Sheet Metal Manufacturing Anne Price (Speakers) President, Insight Center for Community Economic Development

Census 2020 - Who counts? The challenges, opportunities & strategies to getting the 2020 Census right! The 2020 Census is just about 10 months away. For the Bay Area, we pride ourselves on being one of the most diverse regions in California. While this is a strength for our communities, previous census counts have proved that our region’s population has historically been undercounted. And this means less federal funding, less political representation and much more. With stakes this high, this may very well be the most consequential census in our lifetimes. You’ll learn about: the nuts and bolts, the legal advocacy efforts, who is leading local outreach efforts and how to get involved as early as May 2019. Panel discussion with: Kelly Batson (Speakers) Senior Vice President, Community Impact, United Way Bay Area Robert Davila (Speakers) Partnership Specialist, Santa Clara County, U.S. Census Bureau Amy Fitzgerald (Speakers) Senior Program Officer, East Bay Community Foundation Hong Mei (Speakers) Director of Advocacy, Chinese for Affirmative Action Aparna Ramakrishnan (Speakers) Census Coordinator, County of San Mateo Office of Community Affairs Jonathan Stein (Speakers) Staff Attorney and Program Manager, Voting Rights, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus

Budget Justice & Eradicating Fees and Fines Budget Justice Challenges and inequities in government and government budgets tend to disproportionally affect the most marginalized community members. Learn about participatory budgeting (PB), a model that hails from Brazil, centers equity and allows people to engage directly in deciding how public funds are spent. This session will include a review of what participatory budgeting is, how it works in the US and how you could win a PB process in your community. Many government-funded services are delivered and contracted at the county level, yet very few people understand how county budgets are funded and developed, who the key decision-makers are, and how community members can engage in and influence the county budgeting process and outcomes. This session will also highlight the work of a local budget justice coalition in Contra Costa that educates the community about how county budgets work, and advocates for community engagement in the county’s budgeting process and for a set of values-based budgeting principles that prioritizes services for those most in need. Shari Davis, Participatory Budgeting Center Dan Geiger, Contra Costa Budget Justice Coalition Debbi Lerman, San Francisco Budget Justice Coalition Eradicating Fees & Fines (40 minutes)Criminal Justice related fees and fines have a significant impact on the economic stability of individuals and families. These costs are even harder to pay due to systemic employment barriers and the high cost of living in the Bay Area. The average adult on probation in Alameda County is charged over $6,000 in probation fees alone, according to the East Bay Community Law Center. EBCLC’s report, Pay or Prey, finds that “because of long-standing and pervasive racial bias at every juncture of the criminal justice system, criminal justice fees fall disproportionately on residents of color.” While each jurisdiction has the purview to conduct ability to pay determinations, this is not regularly occurring. This session will highlight local reforms to end criminal justice fees and fines, including San Francisco and Alameda Counties, as well as the statewide work of Debt Free Justice California to build a movement to end the criminalization of poverty and assess and reform fines and fees across the state. Anne Stuhldreher, Financial Justice Project Lewis Brown, PolicyLink Brandon Greene, Civic Design Lab, City of Oakland

Melissa Jones of BARHII introduces panel discussion on Economic Equity in the Bay Area The Regional Equity Atlas - Sarah Treuhaft, PolicyLink A shared understanding about the importance of equity to the future of the Bay Area. Powerful equity metrics. Policies that address racialized inequality. These are key ingredients needed to advance the equity agenda in the Bay Area—and a new tool, the Bay Area Equity Atlas, is helping to bring these elements to communities across the region. Produced by a partnership between the San Francisco Foundation, PolicyLink, and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE), the Bay Area Equity Atlas is a comprehensive data support system to track the state of equity across the region and equip community leaders with data to inform solutions for inclusive prosperity. Take a tour of the Atlas and learn how you can use it in your equity work. Racial Segregation and Housing in the Bay Area - Stephen Menendian, Haas Institute Berkeley Segregation is one of our nation’s most enduring and intractable problems. In far too many cases, racial segregation is as severe or worse today than a generation ago. Given the seriousness of the problem of racial segregation as a cause of racial inequality and the complexities in understanding the nature of this problem, the Haas Institute has launched a series of briefs that attempt to illuminate these patterns and demystify the reality of segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area. While indeed one of the most diverse regions in the country, Haas Institute's Racial Segregation maps reveal that the San Francisco Bay Area features a tremendous amount of racial segregation with historical roots going back generations. For more about Rise Together, please visit www.RiseTogetherBayArea.org

Moderated by Padmini Parthasarathy, Walter & Elise Haas Fund State Budget & Policy Developments - Chris Hoene, California Budget & Policy Center In his inaugural budget proposal for 2019-20, Governor Gavin Newsom calls for an ambitious set of one-time and ongoing investments in an array of policy areas – early childhood development, health care, housing affordability, and economic security, among others. In many cases, the Governor’s proposals lay out plans for investments in future fiscal years if economic conditions remain strong. State legislative leaders are now crafting their own proposals and responses. How are those budget and policy debates progressing as the Governor’s office prepares for May Revision to their proposals and as state leaders look to finalize the 2019-20 budget by June and what are the major issues shaping those debates? Hear the latest from the California Budget & Policy Center. The Plan to End Deep Child Poverty - Conway Collis, GRACE California has the highest child poverty rate in the U.S.Child poverty alone is estimated to cost the U.S. economy more than $500 billion annually in lost productivity, increased health care costs, and higher criminal justice expenditures. California’s Lifting Children and Families Out of Poverty Task Force (created by Assembly Bill 1520 [2017, Burke]) issued its comprehensive recommendations, the End Child Poverty Plan, at the end of 2018. The End Child Poverty Plan recommendations are comprehensive, coordinated and meant to be implemented together. Learn more about how you can help #PassThePlan this year! For more about Rise Together, please visit www.RiseTogetherBayArea.org

Opening remarks from: Megan Joseph (Speakers) Executive Director , Rise Together Mary Papazian (Speakers) President, San Jose State University Melissa Jones (Speakers) Executive Director, Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative For more about Rise Together, please visit www.RiseTogetherBayArea.org

Introduced by Jose Gordon, President of eBay Foundation, Dr. Carmen Rojas is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Workers Lab, an organization founded in 2014 that invests in experiments and innovation to build power for working people in the 21st century. For more than 20 years, Carmen has worked with foundations, financial institutions, and nonprofits to improve the lives of working people across the United States. Now through the Workers Lab, Carmen works alongside more than 50 organizations to develop solutions to the most pressing issues facing workers, which often include fighting for living wages, proper benefits, a voice on the job, and more. Carmen and The Workers Lab headquarters are based in Oakland, California. For more about The Wokers lab, please visit www.theworkerslab.com For more about Rise Together, please visit www.RiseTogetherBayArea.org