Youare invited to participate in an educational Zoom forum and community discussion on the role of Allegheny County Executive, on Thursday Feb 16th from 6:30-8pm. The forum will begin with a presentation by and on the broad range of powers of the County Executive to shape local policy, funding, development, and appointments to boards, commissions, and authorities. Participants will then have an opportunity to learn more and to share their experiences of how the institutional powers of the County Executive have affected their lives, their organizational missions and/or areas of advocacy in the following breakout rooms.Dr. Jamil BeyDr. Noble Maseru

• Environmental justice, health, clean air and water: Co-facilitators: Environmental and health care justice activist and psychiatrist  , Breathe Project Director , and , Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health in the University of Pittsburgh's School of Public Health.Dr. Claire CohenMatthew MehalikDr. Tina Ndoh

Development, housing, transit, and food sovereignty: Co-facilitators: City of Bridges Stewardship and Engagement Manager , Casa San Jose Director , Pittsburghers for Public Transit Director , and former Pittsburgh Food Policy Council Director .Crystal JenningsMonica RuizLaura Chu WiensDawn Plummer

Policing, justice systems, and incarceration: Brandi Fisher, founder and CEO of the , Director of Reimagine Reentry ,  and Rev Rod Tate, Program Director of the .Alliance for Police AccountabilityRichard GarlandColorful Backgrounds Expo program

All participants will be invited to share their questions for candidates and main priorities for constructive action by a new County Executive. Forum organizers will afterwards group these questions and priorities by issue and select a representative sample of which will be presented to County Executive candidates to respond to at a second forum on March 9, from 6:30-8pm. Please register here to receive a Zoom link for the forums: .https://bit.ly/ACEforums

The Alliance for Police Accountability, the Breathe Project, Casa San Jose, the Hill District Consensus Group, the Human Rights City Alliance, the Izaak Walton League, Just Harvest, the Pittsburgh Green New Deal, the Pittsburgh Food Policy Council, Pittsburghers for Public Transit, Pittsburgh United, Unite, UrbanKind, and Women for a Healthier Environment.Organizational co-sponsors include: