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Many cities around the country can take notes from the lessons of a little city that turned itself around, slowly but surely! Thank you Urban League of Greater San Francisco Bay Area Kenneth E. Maxey II, MPA, MAIPCR Sarbani Banerjee Mulchandani for hosting a thoughtful Juneteenth celebration at EPACENTER and in my “hometown” of East Palo Alto yesterday. EPA’s progress is remarkable, heartfelt and a reminder that big things can happen in small obscure places. Cheers to the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion report your team championed in Silicon Valley. Indeed there are questions companies are reluctant to ask employees, making this report invaluable in the corporate landscape. “It really is a testament to the commitment of the community to fix itself,” Sharifa Wilson, who was mayor of East Palo Alto in 1992, told Brittny. “The fact that we were labeled the homicide capital gave us an attention that we needed, and then we took that attention and turned it into something positive. If you give us lemons, we’re gonna make lemonade.”