Diversity and Equity
Diversity and Equity Exploration Team
The mission of this team is to provide opportunities to all members to embark on their own personal racial justice journeys, to work on assessing how our congregation’s policies and culture can be more liberating, and to find ways to support the community in making meaningful change. We have offered resources and outlets for members to explore and discuss their views. Examples include movie, book and podcast recommendations, followed by discussions, introspective sharing of personal stories in small groups with trained facilitators and opportunities for local multicultural civic engagement, just to name a few. One big step we took was a congregational vote to adopt the 8th Principle, which means we set the expectation that as a congregation we accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions within ourselves and our institutions.
We are open to new members and hope that this team will include a variety of perspectives.
We recommend everyone read these resources, for both why we are doing anti-racism work as a UU congregation, and in the wider community. Especially at this time when any work on diversity and inclusion are being removed and erased in government and commercial spheres, we need to keep doing the work.
Anti-Racism Resources
We recommend accessing the UUA’s Mosaic Anti-Racism Resource Library, which is searchable.
https://www.uua.org/mosaic/anti-racism