Description

Moving Beyond Performance: Assessing your Organizational Landscape in Anti-Racist Work

July 9, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. EST

Facilitator: 

Jenise Katalina, MSW, LICSW, Women of Color Health Collective

This session will guide individuals in moving their organizations toward being anti-racist and anti-oppressive beyond just initial reaction training. In racial equity, the term "organizational landscape" encompasses an organization's structure, culture, policies, and practices related to racial equity, including both visible aspects like representation and intangible elements like power dynamics. Understanding this landscape is crucial for addressing systemic racial disparities and fostering inclusivity where all members can thrive. Using a multi-dimensional framework, this session aims to help organizations assess their current state and set goals for impactful, sustainable change in diversity, equity, and inclusion work.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: This session is designed to help participants:

1. Gain an understanding of the concept of Institutional Accountability through a Cultural Humility lens

2. Gain an understanding of the seven dimensions essential to an organizational landscape assessment and their application within an organization.

3. Identify key components of data collection and their importance in the assessment process.

4. Recognize the importance of an organizational landscape assessment to sustain racial equity and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work within an organization.