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Healing Racism Institute’s mission is to dismantling racism (Guest viewpoint)
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
Posted Feb 15, 2021 Vanessa Otero is the interim director of Healing Racism Institute of Pioneer Valley. (Hoang Leon Nguyen / The Republican)
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By Vanessa Otero | Healing Racism Institute of the Pioneer Valley
In 2011 my then CEO, Herbie Flores signed us up to join a group of Springfield leaders on a City to City trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan. He stated that it was going to be a teachable moment in my budding career.
As the trip progressed, those teachable moments were evident in the exchange of ideas but also in the small talk that occurred among our fellow travelers. I heard things like, “The best way to fix the Springfield Public Schools is to annex Longmeadow” and other suggestions that sounded a lot like gentrification. If Herbie was also within earshot, we exchanged a look which we would continue to exchange throughout my tenure at his organizatio