Candace Moore
Vice President of Place, Policy, and Power
Race Forward
Candace Moore, Esq., serves as the Vice President of Race Forward’s Place, Policy, and Power (3P) department, where she drives efforts to transform governance and build a durable multiracial democracy. Her work focuses on changing who’s at the table and how decisions are made, centering communities in building real governing power in place. Moore brings invaluable executive local government, civil rights legal, and community-based advocacy experience. This cross-sectoral expertise allows her to forge powerful alliances, effectively bridging policy, practice, and advocacy to pursue durable multiracial democracy.
11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET
Workshops I-VI: Block II
Shifting and Sharing Power: Co-Governance Strategies for Centering Residents
Room: Grand 7
Race Forward defines co-governance as: a collection of participatory models and practices in which government and communities intentionally aim to share power to drive fair and just outcomes. A crucial component of the Purpose Built model is that residents must be central to neighborhood transformation efforts – as visionaries, co-designers, and decision-makers. But how do you bring together a diverse set of collaborators across sectors, experiences, and institutional power while remaining focused on what benefits neighbors the most? Highlighting the amazing work happening in Atlanta’s Thomasville Heights neighborhood (one of seven communities part of the new Atlanta Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative), three practitioners will share what it takes to move co-governance from theory to action and impact.
