UK Assistant Vice President for Community Engagement Lisa Higgins-Hord. Mark Cornelison | UK Photo.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 2, 2021) Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton announced last week that University of Kentucky Assistant Vice President for Community Engagement Lisa Higgins-Hord will work to implement the Mayor’s Racial Justice and Equality Commission recommendations and other equity issues.
“We’ve made progress on implementing these recommendations, but I want to move faster by placing prominence on this work, so we are giving this effort a huge boost,” Gorton said. “Lisa is going to help us take action on these reforms.”
Higgins-Hord will oversee a City Hall team that has been working to implement the commission’s recommendations and other equity issues, while continuing her work at UK.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 15, 2021) 2020 was a year in which the world was taken to its knees. Ravaged by twin pandemics of COVID-19 and the challenges of systemic racism, the people of this country have grieved. While heartache continues around the nation, courage and the undeniable force of the human spirit have revealed themselves in the voices of activists and community members.
The year 2020 has reminded us that conditions in the United States are not so different from the very conditions that created the need for a voice like Martin Luther King Jr. The year 2020 also reminds us that the journey toward freedom and justice for Black people and other marginalized groups is long and the terrain relentless; and yet, we must keep moving. It is in the spirit of such resilience the life of Martin Luther King Jr. is honored with a day of celebration.