The Advocacy Committee of the HRC is committed to addressing issues of local importance in Santa Monica.
In 2025, the Committee has identified the following key issues:
- Environmental Justice
- Immigration rights and issues
- Hate crimes/incidents and information
- Women’s reproductive rights and needs
- Truth Decay
- Human Trafficking
This Committee enacts the ‘advocacy and resolution of local conflicts and issues’ part of the HRC’s mission, as well as ‘responding to issues that arise’ as stated in our vision statement. The Committee is engaged in activities to build its capacity for mediating community conflicts.