NCEI Kick-Off Summit - Monday, October 3 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. PDT / 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT from Nat Coalition for Equity Impact on Vimeo.
About the Event
The nation is dealing with the dual challenge of addressing the frayed social fabric of the U.S. and its polarization of issues, identity politics, and systemic inequities, particularly around racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, and increasing income inequality. Many companies and organizations across the U.S. responded to the challenge by issuing commitment statements and investing in equity impact work and policy change. This has fueled the evolution of equity impact work in ways we have not seen since the Civil Rights Movement. However, while many of these actions might be laudable, the pace of this evolution has led to a mixed story of progress and surfaced pitfalls. In particular, how to have meaningful impact on equity has raised new questions and tensions.
Meeting and Advancing an Urgent Need
Conversations about racial and gender equity are advancing to the forefront—both in the living room and the boardroom. The collective consciousness around systemic inequities and identity has expanded. To meet this expansion, equity impact work across sectors has exploded, as has the number of practitioners engaging in equity impact work.
Equity work can be many things, and a clear need for framing and standards is needed to ensure work in this space is executed with the latest trends and rigor. Equity impact work, therefore, must meet the demands of a modern cultural and demographic landscape, where equity considerations are multidimensional. However, many engaging in equity impact work come from a lived experience lens and can reinforce problematic patterns, unintentionally or not, rather than challenging the systems and people who resist change. A set of standards of practice is needed to advance equity impact in practice and policy through being equity-centered and intersectional, with the ultimate goal of changing systems, not just hearts and minds.
Goals
The goals of NCEI are to:
Create a community of people who want to change the world
Break through the noise to create:
Community
Comfort
Collective voice
Break down silos
Be authentic rather than performative
Promote sustainable change
Center hope rather than negativity in equity impact
Promote collective impact, justice, reconciliation, transformation, and solidarity.
Monday, October 3
9:00 a.m. PT Introductions and Framing of the Summit
Panel: Eric Castillo, Denise Chandler, LB Hannahs, Jen Oneal, and Jeanine Abrams McLeanBreakout Room Session 1: Who Are You and Why Are You Here?
10:00 a.m. PT Workshop
Daysha Jackson Sanchez: Creating a Supportive Equity Impact Community (30 minutes)
Breakout Room Session 2 (30 minutes)
11:00 a.m. PT Panel: Where Do We Go From Here Equity Practice and Systems Change?
Rhianna C. Rogers, Yeong Cheng (30 minutes)
Breakout Room Session 3 (30 minutes)
