Please join Inclusive Communities for its fourth installment of The Jane H. and Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks Conversations for Change Series on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, from 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Holland Performing Arts Center in downtown Omaha.

The event features a one-hour conversation between our featured guest, Emmy award winner and author Gaby Natale and Inclusive Communities Executive Director, Cammy Watkins.

The event is free and open to the public. Attendees may park in nearby parking structures or on the street.

Public Seats Open in January on TicketOmaha.com

To ensure the success of this year’s program and preserve the program’s soft endowment honoring the Brooks family, Inclusive Communities is offering sponsorship opportunities ranging from $1,000 to $25,000 for individuals, corporations, and organizations wishing to support this work.

Sponsors will receive prominent logo recognition, a concierge-style ticket reservation experience, and additional benefits, including an opportunity to attend a “Meet and Greet” with our featured guest.

Questions? Contact sponsorships@inclusive-communities.org.

About Jane H. & Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks Conversations for Change

Conversations connect us. Conversations generate ideas and mutual understanding. Conversations can change communities for the better.

The Jane H. & Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks Conversations for Change series brings thought leaders from around the world to Omaha to share their experiences around confronting prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination to build and strengthen the bridges between differing communities.

Established in 2022 through a gift from Miriam Brooks honoring her parents, Jane H. and Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks, Conversations for Change debuted in 2023 with actor Kal Penn at Omaha’s Holland Center. The series featured Bob the Drag Queen in 2024 and will welcome Emmy-winning actress and producer Storm Reid in 2025.

Conversations for Change amplifies voices in the Arts and Humanities who challenge prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination through their work, fostering dialogue to bridge diverse communities. This is done by engaging change agents through dialogue in a high-profile setting, live on stage. By hosting a public conversation as an audience experience in a theater setting, Inclusive Communities is offering models and frameworks for what our world needs most right now: authentic dialogue.

The conversations we host are unscripted and involve spontaneity, curiosity, and the desire to understand the context of people’s lives.

Set in Omaha’s iconic Holland Center — a hub of big ideas and excellence in human achievement — we confront hard truths and express frustrations, inspiring exploration and ideation toward better futures.

Not only do we look at what needs to change in our world, we imagine how each of us can take steps in our lives to ensure the change begins soon.

Conversations for Change is free and open to the public, held mid-day on weekdays to accommodate schools and employers bringing groups from communities up to three hours from Omaha.

About the Series’ Namesake

Jane H. and Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks were pillars of faith and unity; their belief in doing what is morally right led them into a life of advocacy, serving the Jewish and Omaha communities for over 50 years.

Jane H. Brooks worked effortlessly towards mental health awareness, equal housing, education, employment, and civil rights. Her leadership is reflected in the decades of board services that she dedicated to several area organizations and through the founding of the Eastern Nebraska Mental Health Association.

Sidney H. Brooks served as the rabbi of Temple Israel for thirty-three years until his retirement in 1985. His interfaith dialogues encouraged Jewish and non-Jewish people to connect and better understand each other. In addition, he used the teachings of the Torah to address contemporary social issues. Rabbi Brooks’ steadfast commitment to diversity and inclusion through interfaith dialogue earned him the Humanitarian of the Year Award in 1981 from the National Coalition of Christians and Jews, Midlands Chapter, now known to many as Inclusive Communities.

Thank you to our March 2025 sponsors!