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Leading The Way: The Importance Of Leadership In Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Work, Mary Emery, Marcia Ostrom, Mike Stout, Raquel Taylor, Eric Walcott, Rachel Welborn
Leading The Way: The Importance Of Leadership In Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Work, Mary Emery, Marcia Ostrom, Mike Stout, Raquel Taylor, Eric Walcott, Rachel Welborn
Coming Together for Racial Understanding
This issue brief addresses the role leaders play in supporting efforts to increase dialogues around racial understanding. Based on a survey of State Training Teams who participated in the inaugural Coming Together for Racial Understanding train-the-trainer event (2018), six variables related to leadership support were identified that team members felt were critical to success including actively communicating support, verbally encouraging me in the work, actively participating in dialog, demonstrating support in the face of dissension and risk, and trusting the team to lead the initiative. For this work to truly make a difference, this brief points to the importance of …
How Facilitating Dialogues On Race Is Fostering Systemic Change In Cooperative Extension, Eric Walcott, Marcia Ostrom, Dawn Burton, David Kay
How Facilitating Dialogues On Race Is Fostering Systemic Change In Cooperative Extension, Eric Walcott, Marcia Ostrom, Dawn Burton, David Kay
Coming Together for Racial Understanding
One of the unexpected outcomes of the Coming Together initiative has been the many ways in which it has contributed to institutional change within Cooperative Extension. While Coming Together was designed to help Extension be more responsive to community needs for dialogue around race and racism, early outcomes have shown that as Extension prepares to do this work in communities, these efforts are forcing self-examination leading to shifts towards becoming more supportive and inclusive institutions. As a result of Coming Together, Extension systems are increasing partnerships between 1862, 1890, and 1994 institutions; changing hiring practices; making diversity, equity and inclusion …