Each year at our Diversity Event, KCFAA honors an individual whose actions and practices endeavor to break down discriminatory barriers such as: racial, religious, socioeconomic, ethnic, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and disabilities.

Our annual Race, Place & Diversity Dinner will be held on Monday, October 29 at the InterContinental Kansas City on the Country Club Plaza. We are proud to honor Michele Norris with the Race, Place & Diversity Award.  Ms. Norris is an award-winning reporter, journalist, author, and former host of NPR, All Things Considered. Norris also co-created the Race Card Project, which encourages people to express their experience of race in six words. In 2014, this project was honored with a Peabody Award.

We are equally proud to announce that Mayor Sly James and his wife, Licia Clifton-James, Ph.D., will be honorary chairs of this event, which dovetails with the Mayor’s Race and Inclusion Initiative unveiled in his “State of the City” address last March.

• 5 PM – 6 pm – Patron Party Reception at the Intercontinental Rooftop Bar
• 6 – 6:30 PM – Dinner Registration
• 6:30 PM – Dinner