City of Boston Celebrates 100 New Equity and Inclusion Ambassadors at 2025 E&I Academy Summit

BOSTON, MA ~ Boston, MA - The City of Boston's Equity and Inclusion (E&I) Cabinet recently hosted the 2025 E&I Academy Summit at Rabb Hall in the Boston Public Library. The full-day event brought together the newest E&I Academy cohorts, alumni, facilitators, and colleagues from various City departments.

Themed "Sustaining Ourselves and Our Work," this year's Summit focused on strengthening skills, relationships, and collective care practices to empower Boston's municipal workforce in serving residents more equitably. The event also honored the commitment of 100 City of Boston employees who completed the 2025 E&I Academy series and are now E&I Ambassadors.

Chief Mariangely Solis Cervera, Chief of Equity and Inclusion, expressed her pride in the E&I Academy for building a city for everyone by providing staff with tools, history, and best practices to better serve residents every day.

The Summit featured a dynamic program designed to support participants in grounding themselves, deepening their understanding of equity principles, and applying those tools in their daily work. The agenda included keynote workshops led by Ky Kennedy (PleaseCallMeKy), Robbie Adams (Office of Language and Communications Access), and Flo Glynn (E&I Program Administrator). These workshops explored collective community care, neurodiversity, and the roles that public servants play in systems-level social change.

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Participants also engaged in immersive skills-building sessions such as Healing Liberation: Using the Power of Healing Circles for Grounding and Connection; Why Sleep Isn't Enough: The 7 Types of Rest We All Need; and Just Sustainability: Climate and Our Communities. Interactive activities such as a warm-up cohort learning game, movement breaks, reflection breaks, a community altar honoring cultural connection, and an optional lunchtime zine-making workshop encouraged community building throughout the day.

The Summit also marked the launch of Ambassadors' Capstone Projects, where they received guidance on applying a key E&I tool or concept from the E&I Academy series or expressing their learning through art. These projects will be presented during Impact Presentation Sessions in January 2026.

Flo Glynn, E&I Program Administrator, shared her excitement for the Summit and the E&I Academy's impact on creating a city for everyone. She stated, "Every year, the E&I Academy brings together our City of Boston staff from across all our departments to foster trust and belonging across difference, to support cross-departmental collaboration, and to put equity and inclusion into practice in everything we do. I am honored to learn with our E&I Ambassadors every year to actively and even more impactfully create a City for Everyone."

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Keynote speaker Ky Kennedy, Co-Founder of Autistics Unmasked, emphasized the importance of being an E&I Ambassador and advancing social change within existing social change ecosystems. They stated, "We are more effective and we sustain things better when we actually build into our connections and build into these specific roles that we can play."

The E&I Academy was launched as a pilot in 2023 and has continued to expand each year. With 100 participants completing the 2025 cohorts, there are now a total of 217 E&I Ambassadors across the City's workforce who are committed to applying equitable practices, strengthening cross-departmental collaboration, and fostering belonging for Boston's residents and colleagues.

The Equity and Inclusion Academy is part of the City of Boston's Equity and Inclusion Cabinet. It is designed to equip City employees with the knowledge, skills, and strategies to foster an inclusive, equitable environment across all sectors of city government. For more information about the E&I Academy, visit boston.gov/equity.

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