Committed to Change: Resources to Answer the Call to Action

Thank you to the more than 1,800 people who attended our Committed to Change: A Call to Action virtual event on July 8. To learn how you can get involved with the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement, please contact Tracy Williams-Maclin, senior director of external relations and development, at tracy.williamsmaclin@wisc.edu.

Watch the full recording

Thank you to our speakers

In order of appearance:

  • Dr. Cheryl Gittens, Interim Deputy Vice Chancellor for Diversity & Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, UW–Madison
  • Grady Crosby, VP Public Affairs, Chief Diversity Officer and President, Johnson Controls Foundation
  • Dr. Pamela Newkirk, Professor of Journalism, NYU; Author of Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business
  • Shawn Dove, Founder & CEO, Campaign for Black Male Achievement
  • Darrell Hines II (’03), CEO, Hines Consulting
  • Payton Wade (‘20), Founder, UW–Madison Student Inclusion Coalition
  • Cavalier Johnson (‘09), 2nd District Alderman and Council President, Milwaukee Common Council
  • Dr. Ruben Anthony, Jr. (MS ’92), President & CEO, Urban League of Greater Madison
  • Claudia Marte, Mental Health Provider with Students of Color Focus, UW–Madison
  • Dr. Eric Wilcots, Dean, College of Letters & Science, Mary C. Jacoby Professor of Astronomy, UW–Madison
  • Dr. Corey Steele, Psychologist and Mental Health Provider with Students of Color Focus, UW–Madison

Resources

Diversity, Inc. The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business by Pamela Newkirk

https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/pamela-newkirk/diversity-inc/9781568588230/

Worst in U.S. for Racial Equality – Wisconsin Ranks #1

 

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/08/22/minnesota-racial-inequality/

 Harvard Business Review Article – Academia Isn’t a Safe Haven for Conversations about Race

https://hbr-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/hbr.org/amp/2020/06/academia-isnt-a-safe-haven-for-conversations-about-race

Forbes Article on Impacts of Racism on Health

https://fortune.com/2020/06/19/john-henryism-black-racism-workplace/

New York Times Article – Are You Willing to Give up Privilege?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/sunday/black-lives-matter-corporations.html

Wisconsin Ranks #50 for State Economic Racial Equality

https://wallethub.com/edu/state-economies-with-most-racial-equality/75810/

Race in America Video by Phil Vischer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUwcs9qJXY

Race in Corporate America

https://marker-medium-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/marker.medium.com/amp/p/903f0403a4f5

About Negative Economic Policy Impacts

https://www-washingtonpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/30/minneapolis-had-progressive-policies-its-economy-still-left-black-families-behind/

McKinsey & Company – The Color of Wealth facts regarding the wealth gap and proposed solutions

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion/five-fifty-the-color-of-wealth

The Black Experience in the Workforce

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danabrownlee/2020/06/16/dear-white-people-here-are-5-uncomfortable-truths-black-colleagues-need-you-to-know/

Must See Testimony as Attorney Bryan Stevenson Explains A Personal Experience with Racism

https://m.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/3206263589440837/?refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2F&_rdr

Speaking Up Against Racist Jokes

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paulscanlonuk_racism-racialjustice-speakup-ugcPost-6681133096986906625-79kL

Resources for Black Mental Health

https://apple.news/Ad9K6krZ4T3qryDZOpfz0Dg

College Campus Reopening Impacts on Students of Color in Wake of COVID 19

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/21303102/college-reopening-fall-coronavirus-students-faculty-worry

Truth of the Confederacy in the United States (Full Version)

https://youtu.be/QOPGpE-sXh0

Fox News Interview with Hawk Newsome, Leader of Black Lives Matter New York

https://www.foxnews.com/media/black-lives-matter-leader-burn-down-system

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Day of Racial Healing Dialogue

https://healourcommunities.org/day-of-racial-healing/

Virgil Abloh – UW Alumni that Returned to Campus in 2015 and led Red Shirt Effort as Diversity Project

https://theundefeated.com/features/virgil-abloh-on-the-off-white-air-jordan-5-and-his-journey-collaborating-with-nike/

UW-Madison Student Inclusion Coalition Demands

https://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2019/10/student-inclusion-coalition-asks-for-equity-funding-in-five-demands

Proposed Solutions to Racial Injustice by Michael Johnson, CEO Boys and Girls Club of Dane County

https://wkow.com/amp/michael-johnson-10-solutions-to-racial-injustice