***Please distribute widely***
Students, Friends, and Colleagues:
On behalf of co-conveners Texas NAACP Chair Gary Bledsoe, President and CEO of Get Konnected! Colette Phillips, our Black Brown Dialogues on Policy (BBDP) community and myself, we welcome the pleasure of your presence tomorrow in solidarity with the Texas Legislative Black Caucus and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus to, among other things, urge that the press get it right that, contrary to recent public statements, DEI is NOT illegal.
Accordingly, join us tomorrow, Feb. 14th at 9AM in the Speaker's Committee Room at the Texas State Capitol Room 2W.6.
Our website, blackbrownpolicy.org should be up and running this PM, too.
The press conference tomorrow will be livestreamed at our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/
See everybody soon!
Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., Co-Convener
Gary Bledsoe, Esq., Co-Convener
Colette Phillips, Co-Convener
Black Brown Dialogues on Policy
#StopTheLie #DontLetDEIdie
Black Brown Dialogues on Policy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 13, 2023 Contact: Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.
512-956-6722 (cell)
**Media Advisory**
Black Brown Community Response to Attacks on DEI Programs
AUSTIN, TX – Tuesday, February, 14 2023 at 9:00 a.m., Black Brown Dialogues on Policy is in solidarity with the Texas Legislative Black Caucus and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus in response to attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and policies that support groups who have been historically underrepresented or discriminated against.
Attendees are invited to ask questions learn more about DEI programs and how they provide safe and equal opportunities in jobs and education.
"DEI is about correcting centuries of discrimination. To not continue to do so will have a profound impact on our black and brown communities." - Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. Director, Texas Center for Education Policy University of Texas Austin
“We urge the media to be careful about how it covers DEI policies. It should not be taken as fact that DEI policies are illegal or unconstitutional. If any government official says that is the case, then the media should require that the statement be backed by evidence and facts, not just someone’s statement. As a check on government, the media has an obligation to sort fact from fiction. The facts are that DEI policies are ways of People of Color to apply for state jobs and admission to state universities. And on the part of state agencies and universities, DEI policies are simply goals — without the force of law or consequences — that aim to move the needle forward so that state agencies, public colleges, and universities reflect the people who pay the tabs to sustain them.” - Alberta Phillips, Austin journalist who worked for 32 years as a reporter and editorial writer at the Austin American-Statesman, covering state government and higher education.
WHEN: Tuesday, February, 2023 at 9:00a.m. CT
WHERE: Austin State Capitol Speaker's Committee Room 2W.6
INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY: Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.
Honorable Senator Royce West
Junichi Lockett Jr., Ph.D., IUPRA - UT Austin
Anne-Marie Nunez, Ph.D., UT El Paso Irma Reyes,
Exec. Dir., Mexican American Legislative Caucus
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