Speak Up HoCo! Now Open To All HCPSS High Schoolers

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — Speak Up HoCo! now is open to all Howard County high school students who want to “talk about what matters to you.”

Participants will:

• Discuss how racism and other sociopolitical issues impact your life and how to create diverse communities that thrive
• Practice dialogue and facilitation skills
• Build connections across cultural and racial boundaries, while making podcasts and earning service hours
• Take part in spring training sessions:
• Dialogue Skills that Reach Across Ideological Landscapes
• Resilience and Challenges of African Americans
• How Microaggressions become Macro
• How to Wake Up from Original Hypnosis and Bias

Virtual meetings are held via Zoom on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. starting Feb. 10. To sign up and obtain the meeting calendar, email Rebecca Dietz speakup.hoco@gmail.com or call 443-326-3816.