The most dangerous conversation about race is the one we don’t have.
We’re taking on the nation’s biggest challenges of individual, institutional, and systemic inequity.
The Equity Lab seeks to disrupt racial and ethnic inequity by engaging organizations in issues of race, equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI). Our signature fellowships and long-term engagements help individuals and organizations to develop a deep understanding of their own identities and the historical and cultural contexts in which we all operate. Through our relationships, our partners become agents of progress in their personal and professional spheres.
Our signature fellowships are designed for professionals to engage deeply with race and equity work.
THE NEXUS FELLOWSHIP
The Nexus Fellowship is a national fellowship that helps leaders to create long-term organizational change around race and equity. As a yearlong program, the Nexus experience engages participants and their host organizations in a deep personalized leadership journey based on their identities around three specific design challenges: challenges with people, challenges with processes, and challenges with programs.
THE SEEDING DISRUPTION FELLOWSHIP
Seeding Disruption is a Washington, DC-based fellowship that helps educators and youth-facing professionals use equity-driven design thinking to solve specific problems in their work. Over the course of 13 months, participants develop their skills and knowledge as leaders for equity; build community across racial difference, organizations, and fields; and generate, seed, and catalyze disruptive practices for purpose of dismantling systems of racial inequity in Washington, DC.