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REI Resources

Looking for resources for your self-education? We are sharing these external resources in the hopes that they are helpful to you.

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Also be sure to visit the Racial Equity Tools website, which has loads of good links and materials and/or subscribe to their newsletter.

Suggestions for content? Please reach out to REI Program Manager II Adedoyin Eisape.

Building REI Knowledge & Skills

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Supporting Partnerships for Anti-Racist Communities, Phase I Report – Center for Social Innovation

Critical Race Theory Explained - a five-minute video (The Washington Post, 2021)

Why the Opposite of Poverty isn't Wealth, It's Justice - Bryan Stevenson

Emergent Strategy (learning from the wisdon of nature to drive social movements) with Adrienne Maree Brown (For the Wild podcast)

Operationalizing REI & REI Change Management

Awake to Woke to Work

Operationalizing Racial Justice in Non Profits

Race to Lead: Confronting the Non Profit Racial Leadership Gap

The Governance Gap: Diversity and Equity in Non Profit Boards

REI in health care

Making America Healthier for All: What Each of Us Can Do (David Hunter, Ph.D., M.P.H.)

Community-based Participatory Research Examining the Health Care Needs of African Americans who are Homeless with Mental Illness – National Institutes of Health

Achieve Health Equity: A Guide for Health Care Organization – Institute for Healthcare Improvement

From Henrietta to HeLa: A History of Racism and a Reality of Distrust in the American Medical System (Summerside, M. 2017), University of Colorado-Boulder, Gender and Ethnic Studies

The Competitive Advantage of Racial Equity - FSG

Community-based Participatory Research Examining the Health Care Needs of African Americans who are Homeless with Mental Illness - National Institutes of Health

Implementing Anti-Racism Interventions in Healthcare Settings: A Scoping Review - National Institutes of Health

Interrupting White Dominant Culture & Centering on black, indigenous and people of color

Vital Voices: Lessons Learned from Board Members of Color

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Peggy McIntosh)

Urgency of Intersectionality - Kimberle Crenshaw

"Unapologetic" - Charlene Carruthers on Her Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (Democracy Now video)

Solutions Privilege: How Privilege Shapes the Expectations of Solutions, and Why It's Bad for Our Work Addressing System Injustice - Vu Nguyen