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Organizational Self Assessment

on Racial Equity

CHNA 17

Meenakshi Verma-Agrawal

August 11, 2017

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Agenda

10:00AM: Opening, introductions and framework for making race explicit

10:20AM: Review of definitions of structural racism

10:40AM: Review of Racial Equity Self-Assessment Tool

10:50AM: Discussion of individual results

11:15AM-12:15PM: Technical assistance & pair shares

12:15PM-12:30PM: Close and next steps

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Some things to think about...

  • Race, ethnicities and pronouns
  • Head and heart integration: If you know it to be true, what is getting in the way of making a shift?
  • Don’t personalize problems with systems. Plenty of good folks working in bad systems.

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Introductions

  • Name
  • Gender Pronouns
  • Race
  • Ethnicity

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Guiding Assumptions, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Learning About Racism 1992

Racism - A system of advantage based on race.

-David Wellman, Portraits of White Racism

Micro Level

Internalized

Interpersonal

Macro Level

Institutional

Structural

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Guiding Assumptions

Prejudice - Preconceived judgment or opinion, often based on limited information.

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Because of the prejudice and racism in our environment when we are children, we cannot be blamed for learning what we were taught (intentionally or unintentionally). Yet now that we are grown, we have the responsibility to identify, interrupt and change the cycle. When we recognize that we are misinformed we have a responsibility to get accurate information and adjust our behavior.

Guiding Assumptions

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Guiding Assumptions

  • Each of us are at a different place in our journey and we will have mutual respect regardless of where we perceive each other to be.

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Guiding Assumptions

  • Change is possible both individually and institutionally.

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Example of a policy change on a municipal level

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What RJ Looks Like in Practice

Two Examples

  • Liberation in the Exam Room @ SJP

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  • Racial Justice Working Group @ CHA

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Thank You

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Meenakshi Verma Agrawal

mverma.agrawal@gmail.com

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