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We are at an important moment right now in the United States and globally - and we have wondered how we can do our part to make it this moment into a turning point. We see the murder of George Floyd and people coming together to protest racial and social injustice. We believe it is our responsibility to stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, reflect inward about our own social identities, and ask ourselves "how might thinking about race, class, access limitations help us design for more equitable applications in our product space?" We have a responsibility to ourselves and to our communities as we develop products and services in the COVID-19 pandemic and into the future. We hope you will join us Friday, so together we can make this moment into a turning point. Prior to joining this session, we ask participants select to take at least 1 implicit assessment test on Project Implicit. We will not ask you to share these results. We only ask that you utilize this test as information and a point of reflection. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/In this discussion we covered: Community Agreement: We start the call with a community agreement to assume the best intentions and to allow ourselves to experience un-comfort and discomfort in this call together, while also taking responsibility for the impact of our words, actions, and statements. Social Identity + Bias: We then explore our own social identity and evaluate the biases that come with each social identity from the context of inter-sectionalism, privilege, and oppression. Social Good: In addition to our leadership, Tessa Brown (Stanford Lecturer in Writing, Rhetoric, Social Media, and Social Justice) will take us through how we can apply our self-reflections into the question "How might thinking about race, class, access limitations help us design for more equitable applications in our product space?" as we build products for communities impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic.Call to Action: We give you a call to action to continue to learn and to evaluate how your social impact projects can consider race, class, accessibility, gender in its development. IMAGINEi5 Team