Community of interest

I'm Gary Washington.

I'm the Chief Strategy Officer, and I oversee the communities of interest, the Institute for Innovation, the FIC, and customer engagement.

Gary, let's go ahead and stay with you as we get started.

Go ahead and take a minute or two and tell our audience a little bit about your distinguished background and the path that led you to ACT-IAC.

Well, one of the biggest things is just getting companies out there aware of ACT and IAC and what we do and how we've expanded a number of activities that we're actually providing for them, not only that is related to services that they're doing, but is in relationship to what is happening within the government, whether it be the presidential management agenda, or new executive orders are coming out, or new rules, regulations, projects, etc.

And that is one of the things that my team is really working on is, you know, kind of sharing with potential new members and current members and engaging them in making sure that they're fitting into the appropriate areas and getting the experiences that, you know, as part of the membership.

And and working like with Gary on the Institute for Innovation and the Communities of Interest and the Federal Insight Exchanges.

There's just so much of that to be done.

We are establishing the Garifuna Complete Count Committee to provide clear self-identification guidance, deploy trusted messengers, and protect immigrant privacy across the five boroughs.

We will produce a comprehensive Garifuna community of interest map documenting our churches, businesses, and centers so that the 2031 redistricting commissions cannot crack our voting power.

Pillar two, recover and institutionalize Garifuna history.

Our history cannot live merely in family memories.

Mobilize the community to ensure zero Garifuna households are overlooked in the decennial federal census.

2031, protect the map.

Present our verified community of interest map to redistricting commissions to protect our voting borders.

2032, the institutional legacy.