We also received a welcome from Frankie Sanders , Station Manager of Peralta Colleges Television. Frankie worked tirelessly to help organize the forum and obtain the Board of Trustees meeting room for our use. She also created a video film introducing the Bridge of Peace ceremony, which was shown after the panel discussion. The goal of Youth Together Project is to prevent youth violence and foster racial justice in schools by equipping the leadership of high school youth to address the institutional roots of the conflicts. However she very willingly lent some video clips from the film which The Interracial Sisterhood Project was able to show in order to introduce this moving project to local youth.
Some colleges now use the film as required viewing for first-year students.
Rena Davis, a Berkeley High School senior, and co-chair of The Diversity Project gave an energetic presentation on her work with The Diversity Project and her experience of racial tensions and separation at the extremely diverse Berkeley High School. Christine Froehlich, Chairwoman of the Interracial Sisterhood Project of Northern California, gave a presentation on the work of ISP and the Bridge of Peace Ceremony. The Ceremony is a profoundly moving experience personifying a personal commitment to racial justice. After the panel discussion, high schools students and educators crossed the Bridge of Peace in a moving ceremony. Teachers, administrators, community activists and students who participated were all impressed by the panel discussion and inspired by the Bridge Ceremony.