The panel focused on community responses to hate crimes: Eileen Hogan Heineman from the YWCA Evanston/North Shore, Jennifer Scott of the Commission on Human Relations, Sherialyn Byrdsong, whose husband was killed in a hate crime, and moderator Ken Gunn of the Commission on Human Relations. Photo by Tracy Baim

Mona Noriega of the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations. Photo by Tracy Baim

Sherialyn Byrdsong, Mona Noriega and Jasjit Singh. Photo by Tracy Baim

Vick Lombardo of the FBI. Photo by Tracy Baim

Michael Masters. Photo by Tracy Baim

Sherialyn Byrdsong. Photo by Tracy Baim

Police officer Lori Cooper. Photo by Tracy Baim

Anita Alvarez. Photo by Tracy Baim

Tyrone Forman. Photo by Tracy Baim

0Jasjit Singh. Photo by Tracy Baim

Audience. Photo by Tracy Baim

Audience. Photo by Tracy Baim