The curriculum supports creating a community reflecting and learning from each other to craft approaches to the challenges of advancing racial equity, diversity, and inclusion and building skills to create the conditions for change within our institutions.

Power of Community

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Build community and develop relationships with cohort members with a focus on defining shared language on racial equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI) and how REDI is operationalized.  

Power of Reflection and Healing

Thursday, June 9, 2022

Explore how personal and intersectional identities and oppressions based on ability, class, gender, race, and sexual orientation are experienced in our bodies. Learn practices rooted in radical rest, trauma-informed approaches to healing, and tools for being resilient and avoiding burnout.    

Power of Systems Change

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Learn frameworks, strategies, and tools on how to engage with peers and leaders on making racial equity, diversity, and inclusion change in your institution on a systems level. 

Power of Culture

Thursday, August 11, 2022

Learn how to create a Race Equity Culture in your institution that values and prioritizes racial equity, diversity, and inclusion from Equity in the Center’s Awake to Woke to Work framework.  

Power To Leverage Change 

Thursday, September 8, 2022

Identify institutional levers for change and create the conditions for an action to advance racial equity, diversity, and inclusion in your institution. 

Power of Communications

Thursday, October 13

Learn how to frame narratives, use storytelling, and develop messages to make the case for racial equity, diversity, and inclusion in your institution. 

Power of Practice 

Thursday, November 10

Utilize an organizational assessment to develop a Racial Equity Action Plan. Share racial equity, diversity, and inclusion challenges in your institutions, explore strategies and create solutions to address these barriers. 

Power of Collective Action

Thursday, December 8

Refine Racial Equity Action Plans with implementation steps and timelines, reflect on the program experience, engage with REAI alumni, and discuss opportunities to work collectively in the future.