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,i <br />Hidden Voices - <br />Hillsborough Arts Council - <br />Sonia Katchian - <br />Cornelia Kip Lee - <br />Lynden Harris <br />Carol Laing <br />not available tonight <br />Cornelia Kip Lee <br />McDougle Middle School PTA Cultural Enrichment Committee -not available tonight <br />Music Maker Relief Foundation - Amy Nolan Weaver <br />NC Arts in Action - Not Available tonight <br />Orange County Artists Guild - Mary Harley Kruter <br />Peoples Channel - Chad Johnston <br />PlayMakers Repertory Company - not available tonight <br />Scroggs Elementary School - Sheila Fleming <br />Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture & History - Lotticia Mack <br />Transactors Improv Company - not available tonight <br />b. Consideration of the DRAFT Social Justice Goal <br />The Board received the Orange County Human Relations Commissioner's <br />recommendations regarding a proposed Orange County Social Justice Goal. <br />Human Rights and Relations Director Shoshanna Smith said that she is proud of the <br />Human Relations Commission. She introduced Human Relations Commission Chair Bill <br />Hendrickson, Co-Chair Vivette Jeffries-Logan, and members of the original Social Justice Goal <br />Subcommittee Bryant Colson and Josephine Harris. <br />Bill Hendrickson said that the County Commissioners have all received the 59-page <br />report. He asked members of the HRC to introduce themselves. He said that the HRC would <br />like to have a joint work session with the Board of County Commissioners in the near future <br />about the social justice goal. He said that James Spivey and former Director Milan Pham did a <br />lot on the initiatives. He read from the Memo of Transmittal in the report, which is incorporated <br />by reference. He said that the National Association of Counties was unable to find any county <br />in the entire United States that had adopted a social justice goal. He said that this document <br />was not only from the HRC or the Human Rights and Relations Department, but it has input <br />from many sources within the County, which gives it relevance. <br />Vivette Jeffries-Logan gave a definition of social justice: Social Justice is the belief that <br />every individual and group is entitled to fair and equal rights and full participation in social, <br />educational, and economic opportunities concurrently. Another important component of social <br />justice includes defining and understanding oppression, inequality and inequity, and the <br />implementation of action-based solutions to ameliorate, overcome, and eradicate oppression, <br />