On February 1, 2020, early childhood educators attended a Maryland State Department of Education approved training titled “Addressing and Eliminating the Opportunity Gap Among African American Males in the state of Maryland” at Johns Hopkins University. Petrea Hicks recently presented a similar topic during NAEYC’s 2017 and 2018 annual conferences. She is the creator and facilitator of this training workshop; its intention is to continue the conversation with grassroots initiatives, in order to support ongoing change.