SFIC OBSERVES 30th WEEKLY ONLINE BRIEFING FOR FAITH LEADERS
BY FEATURING THE IMPORTANT MISSION OF 
THE COVID COMMAND CENTER'S
JOINT INFORMATION CENTER VIRTUAL OUTREACH TEAM

Thursday, November 19, 2020
8:30 am - 9:45 am

ZOOM REGISTRATION
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When the City and County of San Francisco declared a COVID-19 State of Emergency on February 27, 2020, its Department of Emergency Management activated the Community Branch, a cohort of stakeholders representing our City's diverse sectors. This body would be responsible for conveying the City's official communications, aggressive recommendations and Public Health Orders to its respective constituencies, ascertaining clarification to those complex communications and assuming the role of liaison, thus enabling leaders in their sectors to make informed decisions concerning the protection and well being of those they represent. To support this effort, the City provided technical support through its COVID Command Center's Joint Information Center Virtual Outreach Team. It is this team that has enabled entities like the San Francisco Interfaith Council to offer it's Weekly Online Briefings for Faith Leaders. As the SFIC observes its 30th Briefing, we acknowledge the important work of this technical support team and seek to shine a light on its broader and more expansive work throughout San Francisco.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY ONLINE BRIEFING MODERATOR

Michael G. Pappas, M.Div.
Executive Director, San Francisco Interfaith Council

WELCOME & READING OF SFIC STATEMENT

Kaushik Roy
Executive Director, Shanti Project

REFLECTIVE MOMENT

Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern
Senior Minister

(Introduction of Guest Presenters and Presentation
by SFIC Executive Director Michael Pappas)
John A. McKnight
Community Partners Group Coordinator
COVID Command Center
Joint Information Center

John McKnight is serving as the Community Partners Group Manager for the City’s COVID Command Center. Created in response to the COVID-19 emergency, the Community Partners Group works within the Department of Public Health’s Community Branch and leads critical information sharing and outreach events aimed at mitigating the effects of the COVID pandemic on communities throughout San Francisco. John has more than 20 years of experience working in disaster response and preparedness in the public, non-profit, and private sectors. He is a Navy Veteran, having served as a nuclear propulsion plant mechanic onboard the USS Enterprise, and is currently the Treasurer for the San Francisco Interfaith Council Board of Directors.
Jacqueline (Jackie) Ortiz
JIC Community Outreach Team Lead
COVID Command Center
Joint Information Center

Jackie Ortiz is serving as the Lead for City’s COVID Command Center Outreach Team. Jackie’s duties entails, strategizing, and collaborating with SF Community Members. As a native San Franciscan she has taken to heart the “Protect Our Community” campaign, and has gone to great length length to ensure her team targets vulnerable communities in distribution of information The outreach team distributes flyers, posters, factsheets, and, social media graphics in various languages. Jackie as over 30 years’ experience working in advocacy and community outreach.
Tré Russell Allen
Deputy Director of Information Dissemination
COVID Command Center
Joint Information Center

Tré Russell Allen serves as the Deputy Director of Information Dissemination in the Joint Information Center. He supports the JIC Media and Press, Community Collateral and Virtual Outreach Teams as they connect San Francisco residents, faith-based organizations, nonprofits and small businesses to vital information about COVID and related City Resources. In previous roles, Tré has coordinated neighborhood resilience HUBs for the Neighborhood Empowerment Network of the City Administrator's Office, served on the Human Rights Commission's LGBT Advisory Committee, the SFPD Chief's LGBT Advisory Forum and co-chaired the City's LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy. 
QUESTION AND ANSWER PERIOD

We invite you to join us next Tuesday morning, November 24, 2020 at 8:30 am
for an Interfaith Thanksgiving Virtual Gathering:

"Thanksgiving 2020: A Time for Healing"

Zoom registration link will be forthcoming

The SFIC extends special thanks to the COVID Command Center's Joint Information Center Virtual Outreach Team for facilitating technology support 
for this weekly series of Online Briefings for Faith Leaders.

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