Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Social Justice Resources
Join Our Book Club!
The COEEA Equity and Inclusion Committee knows it would be helpful if we all educated ourselves about the systemic racism in our country and organizations through reading or listening to the many books about racism that are available. The better educated we are on the issues of racism the better able we will be to understand and help change our organizations and hopefully the world.
Please let COEEA Equity and Inclusion Committee Member, Wendy Sabol, wsabol@ansoniact.org, know if you would like to be part of this reading/listening/discussion group. We will be reading or listening to a book about racism and then get together via Zoom to discuss everyone’s thoughts. See here for more details.
Curated List of DEIJ Resources
Below are some resources to help your work in DEIJ. We encourage you to share resources that you know of by sending these to website@coeea.org for posting.
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Adrienne Day • Grist
Conservationist MaVynee Betsch - The unsung hero who saved a Florida beach
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A Conversation About Growing Up Black
In this short New York Times documentary, young black men explain the particular challenges they face growing up in America
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A Conversation with Black Women About Race
In this short New York Times documentary, black women talk about the challenges they face in society
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African American Connecticut Explored
Essays by many of the state’s leading historians; edited by Elizabeth Normen
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Amy Crawford • Smithsonian Magazine
Why We Should Rethink How We Talk About “Alien” Species
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Building Racial Justice and Equity
ASCD resources to help you as we collectively do the work to dismantle racism at every level—individual, institutional, structural—and educate ourselves to do and be better