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I'm looking for a space to be challenged, to learn, to support, and to grow. I'd love to take a hard look at our work culture, as non-profit culture is incredibly wrapped up and tied to both capitalism and white supremacy culture. Depending on where the group wants to go, I'd be open to reading, listening, and bring things to the space to process together.

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Discussing and identifying  white guilt.

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Discussing and identifying  white guilt.

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I'd like to see this as a more action-oriented space rather than just a reading/discussion group. Like, how can we focus on building equity across the org and dismantling WSC in our individual work, in our team's work, and in collaboration? Tangible things we can identify, propose solutions to, pilot, and report back on. [Tackling meeting culture at iMentor is one that Akash + team started which felt good and I'd like to dig in]. And how do we do this work in a way that is actively partnering with what Diversity committee, equity team, and diversity core group are doing? Maybe this is drifting from original intention of this group but I just feel like many folks read plenty about these topics but doing the actual work is where the buck stops. Myself included.

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I'm really interested in addressing structural change at iMentor.

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I'm really interested in addressing structural change at iMentor.

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I'm interested in reading/podcasts/etc... There are organizations that do this work for companies like ours--would it be possible to work with one of them to build out a syllabus/plan? 

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I'm interested in reading/podcasts/etc... There are organizations that do this work for companies like ours--would it be possible to work with one of them to build out a syllabus/plan? 

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I think it'd be good to learn more about serving communities of color as a white person and how to navigate that role without being preachy or savior-y. Also effective methods to discuss race in class with our students.

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I think it'd be good to learn more about serving communities of color as a white person and how to navigate that role without being preachy or savior-y. Also effective methods to discuss race in class with our students.

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I love the idea of using external resources - reading, podcasts, etc - that we can come together to discuss. Though for that to work that has to be good commitment to actually do the prework, which can sometimes be hard. I also would love to see us focus on solutions and/or actions, rather than just stopping with identifying the problems.

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I think it's incredibly important to remember that this group was started as a space/reminder/community for us to check OURSELVES, not just to check leadership. When we do that, we're still pointing to a problem that exists outside of us. The best way to address a problem when you see one is to fix it in yourself first. We need to focus much more on how we are individually contributing to the problems.

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I think it's incredibly important to remember that this group was started as a space/reminder/community for us to check OURSELVES, not just to check leadership. When we do that, we're still pointing to a problem that exists outside of us. The best way to address a problem when you see one is to fix it in yourself first. We need to focus much more on how we are individually contributing to the problems.

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How can this group influence structures and systems in place at iMentor?

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Accountability to stay regular with our communication. And I wonder if there's more we can elevate within the mentor voice. For white mentors, what are their greatest challenges and successes? Is there a way to gauge how and what they're learning about their mentee, and about themselves? How can that better inform our individual work?

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Accountability to stay regular with our communication. And I wonder if there's more we can elevate within the mentor voice. For white mentors, what are their greatest challenges and successes? Is there a way to gauge how and what they're learning about their mentee, and about themselves? How can that better inform our individual work?

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I also like the idea of exploring readings or podcasts together. And I think we should continue to have conversations about unpacking WSC here at iMentor. I would also like to explore what systems we could impact at iMentor. --Kate

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I also like the idea of exploring readings or podcasts together. And I think we should continue to have conversations about unpacking WSC here at iMentor. I would also like to explore what systems we could impact at iMentor. --Kate

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I didn't attend often last year (but plan to prioritize this year), so apologies if I'm repeating ideas already developed last year. I'd be excited to see this group do some reading / podcast listening to discuss and use those new avenues to apply our iMentor context and discuss our framework of decentering WSC in various aspects of our lives. Would also love for us to specifically seek out, discuss and uplift content from people of color on the needed allyship actions for white people to regularly practice, and bring these learnings to the rest of the org. -Annie

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Continue and deepen the conversations we started last year of taking conceptual framework of white supremacy and how it shows up in the workplace and really drilling into our own behaviors and mindsets at iMentor. Perhaps each of us set a goal for ourselves (ex: this is where I see WSC show up for me) and then have small accountability groups we meet with? I also agree with what someone else wrote here about attendance in this group waning across last year. Would love the expectation that to be in this group and this slack you have to participate monthly - either at a meeting, sharing in the slack channel, or with padlet prompts (meeting discussions could have a corresponding padlet).

Jamie and Derek - if it doesn't create more work for you feel free to offload some admin duties onto group members too. (sending out doodle polls, posting a prompt in the slack, sharing a moment of learning at the top of a meeting, etc.)

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Setting up structure and accountability to make sure we all stay engaged in this work long term, both as individuals and as a group.  The group was very active early on last year, but then we seemed to become a bit less so later on in the year. Why was this and what can be done to keep us consistently working on dismantling white supremacy, even when racial justice is not all over the headlines?

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Setting up structure and accountability to make sure we all stay engaged in this work long term, both as individuals and as a group.  The group was very active early on last year, but then we seemed to become a bit less so later on in the year. Why was this and what can be done to keep us consistently working on dismantling white supremacy, even when racial justice is not all over the headlines?

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What role white staff members can play in decentering white supremacy culture without giving the work to staff of color