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Description:  Is your organization interested in DEI and/or anti-racism work and/or working to advance diversity, equity & inclusion policy and practices? Is your organization struggling with being more diverse, equitable and inclusive, and you are not sure how to proceed? Does the leadership of your organization understand what becoming an anti-racist organization means and what changes it would require internally and externally? What does action look like?

Join us and hear from community leaders that are helping to navigate and integrate Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) practices, advance Anti-Racism, and why it is needed now. Then, participate in an interactive, brief session to help the Cultural Coalition develop a framework for helping our arts & culture organizations in Southeastern CT take action.

Intended Audience: Executive directors, board members, staff members, and volunteers of arts & cultural organizations, businesses and interested non-arts organizations.
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Featured Speakers

Lisa Scails, Executive Director, Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut
Walk in Their Shoes – An antiracism framework for artists & creative leaders
The purpose of the Walk in Their Shoes (WITS) Framework is to offer a pragmatic approach for you to navigate next steps after answering the call to become antiracist.

Adriane Jefferson, Director of Cultural Affairs, City of New Haven
The Arts for Anti-Racism – Helping amplify voices of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) in art and cultural organizations. Not just another diversity pledge. We give you the resources to help you keep your commitment to becoming an anti-racist organization. The pledge and its accompanying list of tools, activities, guides, and events are tailored to the work of arts organizations—helping you make this change both in your public programming as well as internally.

Rachael Gavin, CEO, PR(iSM) Resistance Coalition
Resist the ism – Working to ensure that equity and community advocacy are at the forefront of our services by identifying and addressing isms – able(ism), age(ism), capital(ism), gender(ism), rac(ism), sex(ism) – within companies, organizations and institutions.
Specializing in redesigning systems, structures and policies from a diverse, equitable and inclusive lens.

Kolton Harris, Program Associate, CT Office of the Arts
His work centers on Connecticut creatives and diversifying representation within arts-based industries and demonstrating the power of the arts to heal, transform and flourish humanity.

TO REGISTER AND ATTEND:  EVENT CURRENTLY AT CAPACITY (100 People)
Sign up for WAITING LIST HERE
(We understand plans change and will be opening up spots should they become available.)

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To learn more about our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Series, previous Events, Resources, Articles and more, click HERE.