All people are created dependent—on each other, our earth, and its climate—endowed with the responsibility to maintain justice, liberty, and affiliation for all. We share these resources as we grapple with how to best lead ourselves and our organizations to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion for all and specifically address issues of racial bias and systemic racism.
Five ways allies can advance racial equity (adapted from the Movement for Black Lives)
- Educate Yourself on the history of the birth and development of this nation and current racial inequity issues.
- Host conversations and reading groups with friends, family members, and colleagues about race and racism; explain why this is important and discuss the role of allies in dismantling and correcting systemic injustice.
- Speak up and out, privately and publicly, about racial inequity and injustice.
- Seek to understand before being understood. Do the work of educating yourself; listen to people of color; ask how you can be supportive; follow-through.
- Use your privilege as a platform to make space for those who do not have the opportunity to be heard.