Thursday, March 13 on Urban Forum Northwest:

*Seattle Port Commissioner, Position 3 Hamdi Mohamed represents over 2million King County residents. She is the immediate past president of the Port Commission, and she currently serves on the following Port Commission Committees: Audit, Equity &Workforce Development, Governance, Airport Workforce Conditions (Ad Hoc).

*Estela Ortega, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Seattle's El Centro de la Raza whose mission for the nonprofit is to build unity across racial and economic lines, and to organize, empower, and defend our most vulnerable populations. She has dedicated the last 47 years of her career to El Centro de la Raza.

*Shaude' Moore, CEO, Central District Community Preservation & Development Authority (CDCPDA) aka McKinney Center for Community and Economic Development (MCCED). She also a Senior Global Program Manager at Amazon Web services in Seattle and she serves as president of Amazon's Black Employee Network (BEN) and she is president of the Seattle King County Martin Luther King Jr. Organizing Coalition.

*Reverend Dr. Linda M. Smith, Pastor, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Baptist Church of Renton WA is a Preacher, Visionary, and Transformational Leader. She is using her position to open doors for those who are marginalized, and she advocates Equity, Inclusion, and Justice.

*Bookie Gates, Founder, Baseball Without Borders has organized "The Historical Black College University (HBCU) Seattle Series". Historically Black College Coppin State University of Baltimore, Maryland will play the Seattle University baseball team in a three-game set March 14-16 at Bannerwood Park, home of the Seattle University Redhawks.

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