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Update 7/18/20: This event is SOLD OUT with 200 registrants. Join YDEKC’s mailing list for updates on future events. For a look at the workshop descriptions and speaker bios, please browse the schedule below, or check out our event flyer and Symposium webpage for more details!

Join us for this virtual learning journey for educators and youth development professionals to strengthen their individual and collective capacity to create equity-based learning environments that support the whole child, with a focus on shifting adult practices and systems to better serve youth of color in the Road Map region. 

This symposium includes live plenaries, workshops, and community building sessions (with breaks in between sessions). Most sessions will be recorded and available to registered participants through the month of August. 

Thank you to our sponsors, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Kaiser Permanente; this event would not be possible without their generous support! Sponsored by Seattle Public Schools for Washington State Clock Hours and in partnership with School’s Out Washington to offer STARS Credits to eligible attendees.
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Hikma Sherka

Youth Development Executives of King County (YDEKC)
Policy & Communications Coordinator
Websitehttps://ydekc.org
Hikma Sherka is a college student passionate about elevating youth voice. She was born and raised in Ethiopia and moved to the United States in 2008. Motivated by her experience of seeing her mother discriminated against in the work place, she decided to pursue a career as a civil rights attorney after graduation. In her high school years, she got connected to the King County Youth Advisory Council and fell in love with the youth development field. She sits on multiple youth boards and was recently appointed to the King County Children and Youth Advisory Board (CYAB). After being the only young person in many spaces that claim to serve youth and young adults, Hikma aims to encourage spaces to center youth voice in the decision-making process.

My Speakers Sessions

Friday, August 7
 

9:00am PDT

☀ Body Opening Plenary ☀ Keynote: Economy of Transformation: Divesting from Problems and Investing in Possibilities ZoomJessica Paul Werner • Hikma Sherka • Sean Goode
 

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