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From YouTube: Reimagining Public Safety – Behind the Campaign

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Take a look into the Minneapolis Office of Performance & Innovation through the eyes of Program Manager Gina Obiri. Growing up in Minneapolis, Gina is proud to serve her community. The OPI team is helping the City reimagine public safety by working with residents to co-design unarmed emergency responses. Stay tuned in the coming weeks to learn more!

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When I was growing up, I really wanted to be a doctor so that I could help people and contribute to improving health disparities, especially for black and brown folks. But my path led me to opi hi, I'm gina and I'm a program manager in the minneapolis office of performance and innovation. Some of the most important work that our team is doing right now focuses on alternatives to police response for mental health related issues along with how residents report non-emergency issues to the city.

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So when we get a new project, we start by doing some planning all together to figure out how we want to do our community workshops where we really bring the people who are most impacted by the issues, so that we can really understand the experiences of everyone and really have the community help us build those solutions. The most rewarding part of my job is being able to see the impact that our work has, since it's happening within the communities that I live and have grown up. In my whole life, I am minneapolis.