Resources

Starting Your Personal Equity and Social Justice Work

• Holding Yourself Accountable for Your Allyship, Community Centric Fundraising (February 2023)

Starting Your Organization’s Equity and Social Justice Work

• Urgently Looking for Anti-Racism Training for Your Company? Start Here. Medium.com (June 2020)
• So You’re Ready to Invest in DEI? Medium.com (July 2020)
• Don’t Do Unconscious Bias Training, Tidal Equality (July 2020) 
• To Avoid DEI Backlash, Focus on Changing Systems – Not People, Harvard Business Review (2022)
• Mapping Our Roles in Social Change Ecosystems, Deepa Iyer, Building Movement Project. SM, © 2020 Deepa Iyer. All rights reserved. All prior licenses revoked.
• The Relational Work of Systems Change, Stanford Social Innovation Review (2022)
• Making Discrimination and Harassment Complaint Systems Better, Center for Employment Equity, University of Massachusetts (2018)

Timelines

• An Abridged History of BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ People, and Disabled People in Oregon and Central Oregon (updated September 2022) | Text Only for Screen Readers
• An Abridged History of Latinx and Immigrant Communities in Oregon and Central Oregon (updated August 2020) | Text Only for Screen Readers

Inclusive Language

• The Conscious Style Guide
• Sum of Us Progressive Style Guide
• Inclusive Language Guide
• Systems Centered Language
• Radical Copyeditor

White Supremacy Culture

• Tema Okun, White Supremacy Culture (May 2021)
• Why Do You Call It White Supremacy Culture? Can We Call It Something Else?. Showing Up For Racial Justice
• 20 Subtle Ways White Supremacy Manifests In Nonprofit and Philanthropy, Nonprofit AF (June 2021)
• The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards, Stanford Social Innovation Review (June 2019)

Non-Profit Organizations

• Beyond the Board Statement: How Can Boards Join the Movement for Racial Justice? (Webinar Part One), Nonprofit Quarterly (June 2020)
• Beyond the Board Statement: How Can Boards Join the Movement for Racial Justice? (Webinar Part Two), Nonprofit Quarterly (July 2020)
• Transformational Capacity Building, Stanford Social Innovation Review (Fall 2020)
• Use Informed Consent to Build Trust and Answer That Damn Demographics Survey on Grant Applications, Community Centric Fundraising (December 2021)

Equity Lens and Frameworks

• Applying an Equity Lens to Policy Review, Minnesota State University
• Equity and Inclusion Lens Guide, Nonprofit Association of Oregon (2019)
• Lens of Systemic Oppression, National Equity Project
• Equity and Inclusion Handbook, Oregon Humanities (2017)