Advancing Racial Equity in Your Library

Panelists

Gordon F. Goodwin is the Government Alliance on Race and Equity Midwest Regional project manager at Race Forward. He has significant experience working with senior leadership teams to achieve mission and program alignment. His specialties include organizational strategy development, program delivery and impact, and governance and leadership. Gordon has worked for 30 years with and for foundations, community development organizations, and public-private sector consortia in metropolitan and rural settings. He has worked extensively with organizations that have formed collaborative efforts to advance their advocacy and public policy objectives—specifically, designing and facilitating working group meetings, trainings, governance discussions, and organizational strategic alliances. Gordon has contributed to poverty reduction and racial equity public policy efforts with PolicyLink, Northwest Area Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation, Foundation for the Mid South, CFED, and the Aspen Institute.

Based in Saint Paul, MN, Gordon is married, a proud parent of two adult children, a caretaker for two small dogs, and repairs and rides motorcycles in his spare time

Andrew Harbison is the assistant director of Collections and Access for the Seattle Public Library system, where he oversees Technical and Collection Services, Materials Distribution Services, and Circulation Services. Andrew also co-chairs the library’s Race and Social Justice Initiative Change Team, a cross-divisional, cross-classification internal committee charged with advocating for and facilitating equity-based analysis and outcomes.