WE'RE ELIMINATING RACISM
with our Racial Equity Institute workshops
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We first brought the Racial Equity Institute (REI), nationally recognized for helping communities address institutional racism, to Charleston in January 2017 with seven supportive partners.* With community feedback overwhelmingly positive, we brought back REI’s Phase I workshop a total of 29 times from 2017 to 2020... and counting.
Held from 9 AM to 5 PM on two consecutive weekdays at the College of Charleston's Lowcountry Graduate Center at 3800 Paramount Drive, each workshop is led by REI facilitators and is designed to help local leaders proactively understand and address racism in their communities, workplaces, and personal lives. Organizations sponsor board members, executives, staff, or volunteers to attend, or individuals attend on their own. Each come away with dramatically changed worldviews and tools to address racism in their own communities and lives. A few of the organizations that have done so include Ashley Hall, the Charleston County Solicitor's Office, Grace City Church, Meeting Street Schools, the North Charleston Police Department, and Sanders-Clyde Elementary School. (Organizations, click here to sign up and pay online.) * Our partners for our first-ever REI session in January 2017 were Charleston Promise Neighborhood, Coastal Community Foundation, Metanoia, Racial Equity Collaborative, Sophia Institute/Social Justice, Teach for America, and Tri-County Cradle to Career. Our gratitude to all of them! RACIAL EQUITY INSTITUTE | PHASE I Our two-day REI Phase I training is designed to develop the capacity of participants to better understand racism in its institutional and structural forms. Moving away from a focus on personal bigotry and bias, this workshop presents a historical, cultural, and structural analysis of racism. Topics covered include our fish/lake/groundwater analysis of structural racism; understanding and controlling implicit bias; race, poverty, and place; markedness theory; institutional power arrangements and power brokers; importance of definitions of race and racism; history and legacy of race in American economic and policy development; and racial identity and its interaction with institutional culture. With shared language and a clearer understanding of how institutions and systems are producing unjust and inequitable outcomes, participants should leave the training better equipped to begin to work for change. RACIAL EQUITY INSTITUTE | PHASE II We introduced the first REI Phase II workshop in March 2018, and continue to hold these next-level sessions. Sign up today It's easy to sign up! Register online or by phone at 843.722.1644. (If you are seeking a scholarship, apply here!) Please note there are only a limited number available, as these are dependent on sponsorships.) How you can help
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BUILDING RACIAL EQUITY IN CHARLESTON
Want to know more about the impact the Racial Equity Institute can have?
Check out this May 2019 interview on Quintin's Close-Ups, where our executive director discusses our #WhatWomenBring power lunch and then the Racial Equity Institute. |
2017-2020 Racial Equity Institute photos
Thank you to our Racial Equity Institute sponsors & partners
We appreciate the College of Charleston for donating meeting space at their Lowcountry Graduate Center for our Racial Equity Institute workshops, and Apple Spice for providing our REI workshop participants with nutritious, delicious lunches at a discounted rate!
We appreciate the College of Charleston for donating meeting space at their Lowcountry Graduate Center for our Racial Equity Institute workshops, and Apple Spice for providing our REI workshop participants with nutritious, delicious lunches at a discounted rate!
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