Planting Seeds: A Conversation about Connection and Community

Big ideas don’t grow in isolation—they flourish through collaboration. In this opening keynote, three nationally recognized changemakers will come together for a powerful conversation about how we can cultivate the conditions for connection across communities, systems, and sectors. Speakers: Moderator Karabi Acharya Senior Director of Research-Evaluation-Learning, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Suzanne McCormick CEO and President, YMCA of the USA john a. powell Director, Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley