WHERE WE ARE GOING
Vision
We envision Tulsa as a community that celebrates and promotes the extraordinary heritage, history and legacy of African Americans and the Greenwood District and is a model of multiculturalism at its best.
RENOVATION UPDATE
Latest News
Renovations have started. Here's how it's going.
Bridging the Gap: Cops & Community Conversations
Check out our second podcast. Join Jonathan Townsend, Facilitator & Community Leader, for an in-depth conversation with Deputy Chief Mark Wollmershauser Jr. in Episode 2.
GREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER
& TULSA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Bridging the Gap: Cops & Community Conversations
New cohort beginning soon. Jonathan Townsend, Facilitator
Greenwood Cultural Center (“GCC”), in partnership with the Tulsa Police Department (TPD), is planning the second session of *Bridging the Gap: Cops & Community Conversations. The pilot program was created to enable open, productive discussions between North Tulsa leaders and Tulsa Police Department (“TPD”), officers, including Major Mark Ohnesorge, Deputy Chief Mark Wollmershauser Jr., and Chief Dennis Larsen, following the Department of Justice’s investigative report on the Tulsa Race Massacre earlier this year. GCC and TPD designed the program to address both the historical harms identified by the DOJ and present-day dynamics between law enforcement and North Tulsa residents. The pilot program was very successful, leading to a second series.
The second series, facilitated by Jonathan Townsend, a community leader raised in North Tulsa will begin later this year. These candid, structured conversations foster trust, examine historical harm, and map practical strategies to improve safety, open dialogue, and build police–community relationships. The pilot program kept the group small so that participants could be honest, vulnerable, and solutions-oriented. The pilot proved that with structure, commitment, and skilled facilitation, honest relationship-building is possible.
Are you interested in participating in the second cohort for Bridging the Gap? Let us know!