Community Conversation with Color of Change

On Tuesday, June 9, we hosted a candid community conversation with Senior Political Manager Chad Stanton and Sadie Dean from Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. Our focus was on doing more -- how to listen, learn, contribute, and create impactful and sustainable change, starting with ourselves.

We were blown away by everyone’s engagement, passion, and insightful questions and commitments. As a community and as a company, we unequivocally support the Black Lives Matter Movement and its goals, and are dedicated to constantly educating ourselves about how to be actively anti-racist. This work is important to us and always will be.

Here are the resources discussed during the conversation:

Books: 

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander 

• The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter

• Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Resources: 

• Winning Justice

• Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Podcast: 

• Seeing White

Additionally, our Community Partner, Theresa Stewart, organized a list of recommended resources around learning and doing more for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

Twitter Users to Follow

• @jamilahking

• @prisonculture

• @IjeomaOluo

• @ErinLThomasPhD

• @KimCrayton1

Reading List

• Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide

• Don’t Do Unconscious Bias Training

• Implicit Bias Training Doesn’t Work

• Welcome To The Anti-Racism Movement -- Here’s What You’ve Missed

• 31 Resources That Will Help You Become a Better White Ally 

• Expand & Diversify the Creative Class

Podcasts

• Code Switch

• The Nod

• That’s Not How That Works

Additionally, as a part of our commitment to facilitating actionable steps towards tangible change, we asked that all attendees donate what they could to one of the organizations below and encourage our Community Partners to do so as well.

• Color Of Change

• Campaign Zero

• Black Lives Matter

• George Floyd Memorial Fund

• The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund