Curious Idea: The speed of our organization's anti-racism journey can only go as fast as the speed of our leaders' individual racial identity development.

 

Description:

One of the most difficult and essential parts of building an organizational culture is the fact that we are all on our own individual racial identity journeys. Some of us are just beginning to notice that whiteness equals privilege. Some of us are tired of working with white people. Some of us are tired of wokeness. Some of us are excited about a new partnership we just forged with an indigenous community leader. And some go home in tears from the impact of white supremacy. And yet we all long to make progress. We often don’t know what progress looks like. 

 

In this workshop, we will complete a self-assessment to locate ourselves on Flying Whale’s Organizational Maturity Matrix on the topic of anti-racism. We will look at the stages of white identity development as guides for the stages of developing an anti-racist organization. We will explore how the stages might differ for organizations led and operated by people of color. In both cases, we will discuss what it takes to move to the next stage. 

 

Side benefit: This workshop will help you build an answer to the often-asked funding questions about the status of your organization’s equity work.

Guest Co-Host: Dina Bailey, CEO of Mountain Top Vision. Before opening her consulting practice, Dina was the Director of Museum Experiences at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center as well as the inaugural Director of Educational Strategies at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. Dina most recently served as the Director of Methodology and Practice at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience and she currently works as the Director of U.S. Programs for the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. Dina is a proud board member of the American Alliance of Museums. Dina has been published in both formal and informal education fields and has served as an adjunct professor for Johns Hopkins University’s museum studies graduate program. Dina is excited to currently be working on her doctorate through NYU Steinhardt.