What does it mean to belong? What are the barriers to belonging? How does belonging impact our ability to create a thriving community?
These are some of the questions Frank Nam, LT’13, Project Director at Civic Commons, will explore during this LT Alumni Conversation. Frank will discuss the Compact for Belonging, including how it was developed and who was involved in its creation. Participants will meet in small groups and provide feedback on the Compact’s values, practices, and calls to action. There will also be time for Q&A and for participants to consider how they could apply this compact to their organizations. Join us to consider ways to create a region where we all do better when we all do better.
Since 2018, Civic Commons has been holding conversations focused on the importance of belonging. They believe that to get to a transformative society around shared prosperity, we must begin with relationships, not transactions.
Based on what they heard in these discussions, they created an initial draft of The Compact for Belonging, which is a new social compact that coalesces the values, practices, and calls to action that bind us together. Civic Commons hopes that the Compact will be a touchstone for us to co-envision and co-create a civic garden that sustains us all.
Event Details:
When: November 4, 2021, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Where: Zoom
Who: LT alumni, LT’22 class members, Honorary LT
Cost: $0 - $30
Frank Nam, LT’13, is the Project Director with Civic Commons. He produces and hosts a bi-weekly podcast called We Belong Here and works to promote a framework of belonging to create transformational change in our region. He currently serves on the board of USA Ultimate, a National Governing Body under the US Olympic Committee. He has served on the boards of 826 Seattle (now the Bureau of Fearless Ideas), Southend Ultimate Program, and Seattle Works. Prior to his current role, he supervised the Community Engagement Coordinators in the City of Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods. Before that, he was the National Admissions Director for City Year, Inc., a foster care mentorship coordinator at Treehouse, an SAT/GRE instructor, a web developer, and a paper boy for the New Jersey Star Ledger. He graduated from Rutgers College with a BA in History. Frank was born in Seoul, South Korea. His family immigrated to New York City but he has lived in Seattle since 1996 and currently resides in South Seattle. In his spare time Frank likes to coach, bike around town, and snowboard in the winter.