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Date: 3/8/2026
Subject: DEI Dispatch - March 8, 2026
From: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee



Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Dispatch
  
March 8, 2026

If you have announcements to pass onto the DEI Committee, please email it to dei@lwvtucson.com. The next issue of the DEI Dispatch will be April 5, 2026.
 
LWVGT DEI Policy - adopted November 11, 2021
 

League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson (LWVGT) is fully committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in principle and in practice. LWVGT aims to build a participant base that is representative of all dimensions that make each individual unique. Our aim is to be inclusive, affirming, and welcoming of all identities. We intend to ensure that each individual has access to the same opportunities to grow, contribute, and develop within the organization. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to the organization's current and future success in engaging all individuals, households, communities, and policymakers in creating a more perfect democracy. 

 


DEI 26
DEI Committee Meeting
Wednesday, March 11
6 PM

Welcome to new and returning members of the Committee.  

DEI Meeting Opening Guidelines for Decorum: Welcome to a gathering of League members who are pursuing the League’s commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in principle and practice.  Our process for respectful discussion is by asking questions and actively listening with kindness, sensitivity, and openness.  We acknowledge that we are each learning and searching.

Announcements and Updates  (15 minutes)

  • DEI Outreach – Pat Tapke
  • DEI Book Discussions – Pat Tapke
  • DEI Tours – Pam Burris - No report
  • National Day of Racial Healing – Victor Bowleg 

Five Minute Connection – (5 minutes)   - None this month

Anti-Asian Slurs

Speaker Leslie Moe-Kaiser will speak about the discrimination and hate against Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Communities

Announcements:   

Tucson Black Film Festival – Saturday, April 18, 2026 1 – 4:00pm at The Dunbar Pavillion at 325 West 2ndStreet.  (Theme: Life Today and Pigeonholes) – American Fiction, R 2023.  Described as “A Satire So Funny It Defies Every Stereotype,” this intelligent film will have you laughing as you think twice about our contemporary existence.  Door prizes, discussions, and free popcorn! 

Living2Portraits -- March 10 (6pm) Painterpretations (a Social Cultural Art Class ) -  In partnership with the Drawing Studio on Zoom 

Next DEI Meeting – Our next meeting will be April 8, 2026.  

DEI opportunitiespast and future – Members are encouraged to share DEI opportunities, especially future ones, by sending the information to dei@lwvtucson.com.  It can be shared with the committee via the DEI Dispatch.       

          


DEI  Meeting Notes
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
  

A planning meeting for 2027 National Day of Racial Healing will be held on Saturday, March 21 at the League office at 800 N. Swan, Suite 126 time 11 AM. 
 


DEI Book Discussion Group

Thursday, April 2
4 PM
 
How to Hide an Empire
by Daniel Immerwahr


OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
DEI opportunities, past and future – Members are encouraged to share DEI opportunities, especially future ones, by sending the information to dei@lwvtucson.com.  It can be shared with the committee via the DEI Dispatch.  

Nico Lang Book
How Trans Kids 
Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy
Saturday, March 14
3 PM
Rincon Congregational UCC
122 N Craycroft Rosd
Tucson

Sunnyside Foundation
Sunnyside Neighborhood Association meets in the MPR room at 101 W Irvington at 6 PM on March 16, April 20, September 21, October 19 and November 16.
Food Distribution 2026.03.12
DEI Volunteers at SS Food Distribution
March 12 Food Distribution Details
Shifts available from 3 PM to 6 PM
Desert View High School
4101 E Valencia Road
Tucson

2026.04.02 Sexual Assault Awareness Month

You receive this email as a member of the LWVGT DEI Committee.  If you no longer wish to receive the DEI Dispatch email  dei@lwvtucson.com