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Human Rights
How Reverse Mentoring Can Lead to More Equitable Workplaces
In response to a July 16 article about improving organizations' DEI efforts by reimagining the roles of mentor and mentee, SSIR reader Yen Ooi wrote that “calling it 'reverse mentoring' might set out the wrong impression in the relationship to start with.” What do you think? This is the final of 10 articles in a special DEI series.
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Human Rights
Reimagining the Internship to Promote Racial Equity
DEI efforts should develop and maximize the potential impact of this important but often overlooked position. This is the ninth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Health
Four Global Lessons From Locally Driven DEI Efforts
In order to change the odds for marginalized children, social organizations must root their racial equity work in a commitment to learn from and be led by those who have experienced inequity themselves. This is the eighth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Health
Advancing Equity in Health Systems by Addressing Racial Justice
Lessons on racial equity underscore the need to set explicit aims, build coalitions, and flatten hierarchies in order to strengthen healthcare’s role in undoing systems of oppression. This is the seventh of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Advocacy
Making Places for Everyone — With Everyone
Placemaking strategies can improve city life, but they must be used equitably and ensure community involvement. This is the sixth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Collaboration
The Challenge of Negotiating Race in Cross-Sector Spaces
We must take on the difficult work of accounting for race and racism in our collective change-making endeavors or face the risk of failing to undo systemic inequities. This is the fifth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Human Rights
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Human Rights
How to Push DEI Conversations Out of the Comfort Zone
As we work to advance racial equity in philanthropy, four practices can help us achieve changes that are truly transformative. This is the third of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Human Rights
‘Checkbox Diversity’ Must Be Left Behind for DEI Efforts to Succeed
DEI efforts need to account for hegemony, marginalization, and the creation of sustainable shifts in power. This is the second of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Human Rights
Social Innovation Alone Can’t Solve Racial Inequity
Three insights offer organizations opportunities to cultivate durable solutions to the underlying causes of racial inequity. This is the first of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Breaking Through Barriers to Racial Equity
In this SSIR series, made possible with a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, we sought to shake up contemporary discussions around diversity, equity, and inclusion, commonly referred to as its decorous, innocuous acronym, “DEI.”
The collection of 10 essays—by fresh new voices to SSIR—were selected from more than five dozen entries on the theme of analyzing DEI work through a global intersectional race lens.
These articles push the envelope on discussions focused on race and racism: From our lead essay by Shawn Ginwright and Sai Seigel, which interrogates the efficacy of social innovation in creating long-lasting racial equity, to our final essay by Sharlene Gandhi, which argues that reverse mentorship can create new paths of inclusion and equity in the workplace, this series presents challenging questions and provoking ideas to break through the discriminatory barriers to racial equity across sectors.
This series is accompanied by 11 original illustrations by French visual artist Aurélia Durand. These vibrant interpretations make the reader directly look at and engage with racial diversity in their experience of reading these articles.
It is our privilege and honor at SSIR to generate ideas and create conversation about racial equity through the thought-provoking work of the contributors who wrote these articles. We thank them for their contributions and with this series signal to the world that we are committed to advancing the practices of diversity and inclusion in order to foster new levels of belonging and equity in the field of social innovation.