Our long-time client Rosenberg Foundation celebrated 90 years of supporting visionary leaders who advance racial and economic equity throughout California. This week, friends, partners, and community members gathered for a memorable evening of gratitude and reflection.
Congresswoman Lateefah Simon shared inspiring remarks, and the foundation honored Dolores Huerta for her extraordinary leadership and lifelong dedication to worker power, farmworkers’ rights, and gender justice. Change Consulting is thrilled to have assisted in the production of the event, from materials to the program. We offer our warmest congratulations to the Rosenberg Foundation and look forward to celebrating many more decades of impactful service.
Visiting youth court judges from New Zealand with Journey to Justice participants
“We have people all over the world coming to see our youth justice system and we never see them again…what we felt today [from our Bay Area visit] is the world getting smaller…(and) what we experienced hit hard.” Last month, a delegation of youth court judges from New Zealand visited the Bay Area to learn more about San Francisco and Alameda Counties’ efforts to transform the region’s juvenile justice systems. ‘It was like seeing our own culture and cultural norms through a different lens. But it was the same lens because it was the lens of humanity,” noted one of the judges. Read more about the visit in Zellerbach Family Foundation’s blog Journey to Justice: Welcoming our New Zealand whānau to the Bay Area.
Black Futures Lab Executive Director Kristin Powell joined Joy Reid to discuss early insights from the 2026 Black Census Project ahead of the midterms. With findings from 6,000 respondents to date, Powell says one message is clear: Black communities want a seat at the decision-making table and a government that truly serves them. The Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people in history; this year, Black Futures Lab aims to reach 300,000 respondents. Watch the full segment above and take the census here.
Two civil rights groups, the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties and the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA), have filed a lawsuit challenging how San Diego and its police department use automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology. “We are concerned about technologies like ALPR and the fact that it is almost impossible to govern these systems and to make them actually safe for our communities. So we’ve been asking for the city to shut down their use of flock ALPR’s.” Humaira Yusuf, Senior Policy Strategist with PANA, joined Jade Hindman on KPBS Midday Edition to discuss why PANA decided to become plaintiffs in this litigation. Tune in here.