(Eco)Exchange™:
(formerly cultural tours) – designed to form relationships and understanding between our sister cities partnership residents. Based on the idea that relationships are at the heart of eliminating racial inequality.
We have produced over 25 of these events. We recently leased space in a co-work office (Synergy) on Imperial Avenue in Encanto and have moved some of these events to that space. Our last (Eco)Exchange event featured Local Entrepreneurs and drew a large audience, hosted at this location. Our next (Eco)Exchange will be coordinated with Soul Swap. We are scheduling these once a month for each SCP partnership to build our network of panelist speakers and to give time to draw a large audience. In addition to these, there have been countless one-off events that bring people together in both Communities around art, music and beach/surfing. We know anecdotally that North County residents and South County residents have connected to support one another.
This activity is critical to creating an expanding network of relationships that support SESD and normalize residents of neighboring communities visiting and being warmly welcomed to North County communities