{"id":65879,"date":"2024-12-02T21:46:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T05:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=65879"},"modified":"2025-05-16T16:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:50:24","slug":"seattle-welcome-day-3","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/event\/seattle-welcome-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Welcome Day &#8211; April 19, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cThe Seattle Welcome Day is the perfect way to start your Seattle community! <\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>&#8211; Welcome Day Participant <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join us for Seattle\u2019s Welcome Day\u2014an event for every newcomer or resident ready for a fresh start. The day is designed to provide the tools you need to create your best socially connected life in the Seattle area:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meet other newcomers and long-time residents from your neighborhood and across the region who are looking to connect.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Build a personalized action plan for your connected life in Seattle with the support of science-based prompts and professional facilitators.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get advice from everyone in the room on activities, events, and communities you can explore.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Become part of an ongoing community to support each other moving forward.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every attendee receives the Seattle Newcomers Club Journal, which includes scientifically designed prompts to help you envision a socially connected life in your new home city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet the Panelists<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>Vivian Phillips <\/strong><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">is a communications professional and arts leader. In<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">\u00a0 <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">2021, Vivian founded the online publication <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 255)\">A<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 255)\">RTE NOIR <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">to uplift and spotlight Black <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">art and culture from the African diaspora. By September 2022, she had expanded<\/span> <span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">ARTE NOIR into a state-of-the-art exhibit gallery and cultural space that anchors the <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">Midtown Square development in Seattle\u2019s Central District. In\u00a0 December\u00a0 2023,<\/span> <span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">Vivian led the organization\u2019s purchase of the physical space,\u00a0 fulfilling the intention <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">of creating permanency in a highly gentrified community that was once a redlined <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">community where her parents settled in the 1950s, having migrated from the Jim <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">Crow South.<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"x_gmail-docs-internal-guid-5b5e236d-7fff-8e62-8cbc-8a5ca1cee3a4\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">From producing arts for the stage and arts related programs for broadcast, to being <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">a communications professor and consultant, to lending her leadership as an <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">advocate to Seattle\u2019s major arts funding agencies 4 Culture and Seattle Office of Arts,<\/span> <span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">Vivian\u2019s strategic and persuasive leadership style has contributed to significant funding <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">policies and initiatives that benefit the whole of\u00a0 Seattle\u2019s community. \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><strong><a title=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juliepham2\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juliepham2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\" data-ogsc=\"\">Dr. Julie Pham<\/a><\/strong><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span>founded<\/span><a title=\"http:\/\/curiositybased.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/curiositybased.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\" data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"\">CuriosityBased<\/span><\/a><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span>to help<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">people practice curiosity in the world, starting in the workplace<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">. She wrote the #1 Amazon New Release and Bestseller<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/www.formsofrespect.com\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/www.formsofrespect.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\" data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"\">7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work<\/span><\/a><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">and gave a TEDx<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jb0aQ2gE4tU\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jb0aQ2gE4tU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\" data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"\">talk on &#8220;Curiosity as a practice<\/span><\/a><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">.&#8221;<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Dr. Pham is an award-winning leader who applies her community-building experience to strengthening teams.\u00a0 She has worked as a journalist, a historian, a tech industry marketer, and a nonprofit executive. She got her \u201creal-life MBA\u201d by running her family\u2019s Vietnamese-language newspaper, Northwest Vietnamese News, during the Great Recession. She earned her PhD in history at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and graduated magna cum laude from UC Berkeley, where she studied history.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><strong>Julie Fontanez<\/strong> is an English\/Spanish speaking realtor with Engel &amp; V\u00f6lkers Real Estate, serving the Greater Puget Sound area. She is a member of the Seattle Welcome Committee.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Moderator: Charlotte Massey\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Charlotte Massey<\/strong> is the Founder + Executive Director of the Seattle Chamber of Connection, the new civic organization that is tackling the national loneliness epidemic. Charlotte is also the Co-Founder and former COO of\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/gnara.com\" href=\"https:\/\/gnara.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"\">Gnara Inc<\/a>, an award-winning venture-backed outdoor apparel company built around patented zipper technologies. Charlotte is a Tory Burch Fellow, Watson Fellow, RSA Fellow, and Vital Voices Fellow, and her work has been featured by ABC News, Forbes, USA Today, Women&#8217;s Health, and Good Morning America. Charlotte was recognized as Seattle Forbes 30 under 30 and is a TEDx Speaker. She lives in Ballard with her husband.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cThe Seattle Welcome Day is the perfect way to start your Seattle community! <\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>&#8211; Welcome Day Participant <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join us for Seattle\u2019s Welcome Day\u2014an event for every newcomer or resident ready for a fresh start. The day is designed to provide the tools you need to create your best socially connected life in the Seattle area:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meet other newcomers and long-time residents from your neighborhood and across the region who are looking to connect.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Build a personalized action plan for your connected life in Seattle with the support of science-based prompts and professional facilitators.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get advice from everyone in the room on activities, events, and communities you can explore.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Become part of an ongoing community to support each other moving forward.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every attendee receives the Seattle Newcomers Club Journal, which includes scientifically designed prompts to help you envision a socially connected life in your new home city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet the Panelists<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>Vivian Phillips <\/strong><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">is a communications professional and arts leader. In<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">\u00a0 <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">2021, Vivian founded the online publication <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 255)\">A<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 255)\">RTE NOIR <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">to uplift and spotlight Black <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">art and culture from the African diaspora. By September 2022, she had expanded<\/span> <span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">ARTE NOIR into a state-of-the-art exhibit gallery and cultural space that anchors the <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">Midtown Square development in Seattle\u2019s Central District. In\u00a0 December\u00a0 2023,<\/span> <span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">Vivian led the organization\u2019s purchase of the physical space,\u00a0 fulfilling the intention <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">of creating permanency in a highly gentrified community that was once a redlined <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">community where her parents settled in the 1950s, having migrated from the Jim <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">Crow South.<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"x_gmail-docs-internal-guid-5b5e236d-7fff-8e62-8cbc-8a5ca1cee3a4\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">From producing arts for the stage and arts related programs for broadcast, to being <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">a communications professor and consultant, to lending her leadership as an <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">advocate to Seattle\u2019s major arts funding agencies 4 Culture and Seattle Office of Arts,<\/span> <span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">Vivian\u2019s strategic and persuasive leadership style has contributed to significant funding <\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(88, 88, 90)\">policies and initiatives that benefit the whole of\u00a0 Seattle\u2019s community. \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><strong><a title=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juliepham2\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juliepham2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\" data-ogsc=\"\">Dr. Julie Pham<\/a><\/strong><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span>founded<\/span><a title=\" href=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\" data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"\">CuriosityBased<\/span><\/a><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span>to help<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">people practice curiosity in the world, starting in the workplace<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">. She wrote the #1 Amazon New Release and Bestseller<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/www.formsofrespect.com\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/www.formsofrespect.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\" data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"\">7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work<\/span><\/a><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">and gave a TEDx<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jb0aQ2gE4tU\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jb0aQ2gE4tU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\" data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"\">talk on &#8220;Curiosity as a practice<\/span><\/a><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">.&#8221;<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Dr. Pham is an award-winning leader who applies her community-building experience to strengthening teams.\u00a0 She has worked as a journalist, a historian, a tech industry marketer, and a nonprofit executive. She got her \u201creal-life MBA\u201d by running her family\u2019s Vietnamese-language newspaper, Northwest Vietnamese News, during the Great Recession. She earned her PhD in history at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and graduated magna cum laude from UC Berkeley, where she studied history.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><strong>Julie Fontanez<\/strong> is an English\/Spanish speaking realtor with Engel &amp; V\u00f6lkers Real Estate, serving the Greater Puget Sound area. She is a member of the Seattle Welcome Committee.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Moderator: Charlotte Massey\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Charlotte Massey<\/strong> is the Founder + Executive Director of the Seattle Chamber of Connection, the new civic organization that is tackling the national loneliness epidemic. Charlotte is also the Co-Founder and former COO of\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/gnara.com\" href=\"https:\/\/gnara.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"\">Gnara Inc<\/a>, an award-winning venture-backed outdoor apparel company built around patented zipper technologies. Charlotte is a Tory Burch Fellow, Watson Fellow, RSA Fellow, and Vital Voices Fellow, and her work has been featured by ABC News, Forbes, USA Today, Women&#8217;s Health, and Good Morning America. Charlotte was recognized as Seattle Forbes 30 under 30 and is a TEDx Speaker. 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