Dr. Michelle Wilson of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions and Dr. Abbie Langston of PolicyLink will share learnings from the “Advancing Workforce Equity” projects, where their organizations worked with five regional workforce systems to create comprehensive analysis of long-standing racial gaps in the labor market and develop local blueprints for action. This session will highlight the importance of articulating your “why”, uncovering the drivers of inequity, and understanding the “who” in your work using disaggregated data and stories. In addition, participants will hear from Andrea Glispie of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, to unpack Dallas’s equity journey as a National Fund Workforce Collaborative.