Openings Available for Two Young People on Brooklyn Park’s Human Rights Commission
There are openings for two young people–“emerging leaders”–on the City Of Brooklyn Park’s Human Rights Commission.
“The Human Rights Commission has been commissioned by the city council to protect the City of Brooklyn Park from discriminatory actions within the city,” said the city’s racial equity, diversity, and inclusion manager, Marcellus Davis, who is also a part of the commission. Davis said the panel can recommend the Minnesota Department of Human Rights investigate claims of discrimination and the panel can also make recommendations to Brooklyn Park City Council.
Brooklyn Park’s Human Rights Commission can make recommendations both to the state Department of Human Rights and Brooklyn Park City Council.
“People not only feel what’s going on in their community, they are a product of their community, so these things are beyond agenda items,” said Davis. “They are the way people live, they want to see a humane, human-centric community, so they try to invest in that through their work, in the community.”
Davis said the only requirement for young people who may be interested in serving on the commission is that they be ready to get to work. There could be several meetings per month if the case load calls for it, he said.
“We know that cultivating our seeds, our youth, is important, so to be able to have their insight, their experience in Brooklyn Park is going to help us get involved in initiatives that can transform our community,” he said.
