Resources

Immigration Panel Discussion (March, 2025)

Getting Started

What’s the Difference Between Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity?
Cultural Proficiency: What is It?
Cultural Competency Continuum
Seeing White: Scene on Radio
Brene on Words, Actions, Dehumanization, and Accountability – Brene Brown Unlocking Us Podcast
The Danger of a Single Story – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How to Let Go of Being a Good Person and Become a Better Person – Dolly Chugh
How to Overcome our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them
(Available at Retailers)
The Person You Mean To Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh
Waking Up White: Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debbie Irving
11 Books to Read If You Want to Be a More Inclusive Leader (Forbes List)

Dig Deeper

National Museum of African American History & Culture: Talking about Race
Teaching Kindness Isn’t Enough
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Rethinking How We Celebrate American History – Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Life-Changing Power of Representation
Why We Must Talk about the Asian-American story, too
18 Major Moments in Hispanic History that all Americans Need to Know
Why We Must Confront the Painful Parts of US History – Hasan Kwame Jeffries TedTalk
A Conversation with Native Americans on Race – video clip
6 Misconceptions about Native American People – video clip
US Immigration Timeline
Women’s History Milestones: A Timeline
Remarkable People We Overlooked in Our Obituaries – NY Times
Women’s Suffrage
Calling Out Ableism
Words Matter, And It’s Time to Explore the Meaning of “Ableism”
Americans are Finally Waking Up About Ableism
Listen to an Interview with the founder of Same As U (a college-like setting for young adults with developmental disabilities)
Poverty Isn’t a Lack of Character; it’s a lack of cash – Rutger Bregman TedTalk
The Question of Class
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (Book)
The ABCs of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+
50+ Resources for LGBTQIA Allies
Queer America Podcast
(Available at Retailers)
The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America by Arthur C. Brooks
Hillbilly Elegy: A memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
Dear Black Girl by Tamara Winfrey-Harris
The Undocumented Americans– by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
White Privilege by Robin DiAngelo
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Leadership Resources