Cultivating Equity

We cultivate the deep learning and practice of racial equity.

O&G brings unique and essential experience partnering with governmental jurisdictions to build capacity, organize, and sustain a movement in support of racial equity.
—Public Health Institute (PHI)

Even the most well-intentioned organizations fall short of desired outcomes. Our curriculum consists of three levels designed to build and sustain a framework for understanding and advancing racial equity.

  • Foundations: We facilitate learning sessions to build your knowledge and deepen your understanding of racial equity concepts and constructs. We enable you to identify patterns and throughlines of racial inequities, and illustrate the everyday dimensions of racism that sustain racial disparities in social, educational, and economic outcomes. 

  • Expansions: We guide your understanding of creating and sustaining the infrastructure for racial equity and build your capacity to leverage people and processes to advance racial equity strategically. 

  • Praxis: We support implementing racial equity training and processes to transform your policies, procedures, and practices.

During our learning and practice journey, we guide clients through activities such as interactive projects, group discussions, and reflective exercises. O&G’s sessions can be tailored to suit your organizational needs.

Due to COVID-19 safety precautions, all engagements will be virtual until further notice.

Coach

We empower clients to be transformational leaders, trusted collaborators, and racial equity practitioners.

O&G is committed to supporting organizational capacity to advance racial equity.
—Government Alliance on Racial Equity (GARE)

Our coaching services provide guidance and insight on management, communications, and other practices that create and sustain change. We tailor our coaching services to meet your needs.

Consult

We view racial equity as an organizational change process.

“Working with O&G has helped our team move into and through the necessary conversations that are central to dismantling structural and institutional racism.”
—Public Health Institute (PHI)

Our Approach

Our curriculum is grounded in the tenants of Liberatory Consciousness, which is a framework for understanding how all people can be empowered to affect change. We build organizational capacity and support your practice in operationalizing racial equity.

Advancing racial equality requires acknowledging the harm discriminatory systems have perpetuated. This is why we are fiercely committed to uprooting and expelling the racial harms that propagate inequity.

We collaborate with our clients as practice partners to achieve transformative goals and maintain progress. Our consulting services include the following:

  • Identifying data-informed outcomes and strategies

  • Personalized technical assistance

  • Guide development of racial equity action plans

Racial Equity Resources

What is Institutional Racism?

A system in which policies, institutional procedures and practices, and societal norms work in and across institutions to, intentionally or not, produce outcomes that chronically favor or put a racial group at a disadvantage.  

Poignant examples of institutional racism can be found in school disciplinary policies in which students and adults of color are punished at much higher rates than their white counterparts, in the criminal justice system, and within many employment sectors in which day-to-day operations, as well as hiring and firing practices, can significantly disadvantage workers of color. ¹

What is Racial Equity?

Racial equity is both an organizational change process and a desired outcome. As a process, it is the disruption of structural racism from the policies, procedures, and practices that shape our social institutions and structures. It ensures that the people who are most negatively impacted are actively informing and leading the creation and implementation of policies, procedures, and practices that create the conditions for all people to thrive. As an outcome, it means that a person’s racial identity does not determine their life opportunities and results, such as access to a safe home and amenity-rich neighborhoods.

Racial Equity Learning Resources

What is Structural Racism?

A system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity. It identifies dimensions of our history and culture that have allowed privileges associated with “whiteness” and disadvantages associated with “color” to endure and adapt over time. Structural racism is not something that a few people or institutions choose to practice. Instead, it has been a feature of the social, economic, and political systems in which we all exist.