I was excited to attend Expanding the Table for Racial Equity – a learning series hosted by the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers and Leadership Greater Washington.  Our facilitator, Inca Mohammed, led us through a series of increasingly personal partner-sharing exercises to create a sense of community.

Structural Racism was defined was defined at the learning series as “the structure or system created through the interaction of history, culture, ideology, public policies, institutional practices, and personal behaviors and beliefs to maintain a racialized hierarchy.”

But while the racism is structural, the work to dismantle it is deeply personal. If we are to achieve a racially equitable region, we are going to have to work together. We need each other. In that spirit, I see more clearly how the shared values and trust that we began to establish in the first session will be critical to what lies ahead.

Read the full article about advancing racial equity by Grace Katabaruki at The Daily Wrag.