2022 NW Diversity Learning Series After Session Resources

Session 1: January 27, 2022

"Fact or Fiction: Learning How to Challenge DEI Data"

 

In the first session of 2022, participants learned how to spot, refute or fix various forms of misinformation related to DEI data such as data graphic errors, flawed data arguments as a result of selection bias, and to distinguish between claims of causation versus correlation.

 

Jevin West & Carl Bergstrom, presenters for this session, provided the following resources, handouts and articles to extend participants’ learning.

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Articles:

 

• One of our favorite books on the topic of “bullshit” is Harry Frankfurt’s book. Here is an article, "On Bullshit" that inspired that book.

• Extremism Online: As the rise of right-wing extremism continues, scholars examine how these ideologies multiply through digital spaces

 

Books:

• Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, by Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West (Random House, 2021).

• How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo

 

Case studies:

Here are three specific case studies that relate to things we talked about in the workshop:

 

• Machine learning about sexual orientation

• Criminal Machine Learning  

• Musicians and Mortality

 

Websites:

• Carl and Jevin have developed a high-profile, educational website: http://callingbull.org

• Media & Democracy (Social Science Research Council)

• Inclusive Language Guide: A reference for software and other information technology content

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Videos:

• How to Spot Bullshit (lesson on Fermi Estimation, quite useful in spotting quantitative BS) 

• How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter About Data Visualization | Alberto Cairo | #DemystifyDS 2019

 

After Session Discussion Guide: This discussion guide aims to help you engage with and reflect on your learning from the Session, “Fact or Fiction: Learning How to Challenge DEI Data”. We encourage you to reflect collaboratively with your colleagues and discuss how to apply critical questions to the development of your organization’s DEI data.

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Other Resources:

Here is a resource page (from the Center for An Informed Public) for more general tools at addressing misinformation (e.g., deepfakes, vaccine hesitancy, etc.) that organizational leaders will deal with at some point:

https://www.cip.uw.edu/resources/

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Participants’ list of Metrics:

Presenters, Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom, asked the participants if they could identify any metrics of success at their organizations that have led to unintended consequences. There was no shortage of answers. This is their list.

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Session 2: March 24, 2022

"The Great Stagnation: Accountability is More Than a Hashtag"

 

In the second session of 2022, participants learned how to diagnose common dysfunctions that undermine DEI progress and gained practical tools that they can apply to their organization’s DEI efforts to ensure they are properly launched, resourced, and sustained.

 

Dax-Devlon Ross, presenter for this session, provided the following resources to extend participants’ learning.

  

Articles:

• Generational Differences in Racial Equity Work by Dax Devlon-Ross, Nonprofit News | Nonprofit Quarterly, 2022

• Transforming Culture — An Examination of Workplace Values Through the Frame of White Dominant Culture by Merf Ehman, Mie, 2018

• The Diversity and Inclusion Industry Has Lost Its Way by Kim Tran, Harper’s Bazaar, 2021

• When Organizational Change Fails by David La Plana, Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2016

 

Books:

• Letters to My White Male Friends, by Dax Devlon-Ross (St. Martin’s Press, 2021)

• The Genius of Women by Janice Kaplan (Dutton, 2021) 

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Text Publishing Co., 2015) 

• Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists by Mikki Kendall (Ten Speed Press, 2019)

• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Random House, 2015)​ 

• Female Firebrands: Stories and Techniques to Ignite Change, Take Control, and Succeed in the Workplace by Mikaela Kiner (Greenleaf Book Group, 2020)

 

Reports:

• An in-depth look at building Diversity and Inclusion Councils: Diversity and Inclusion Councils by Diversity Best Practices

• Organizational Racial Equity Transformation Report: Demos Racial Equity Transformation: Key Components, Processes & Lessons, Demos 

• DEI Action Plan: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Action Plan, Berkeley Haas, October 2018 

• An overview of EY’s approach to DEI: Our Approach to Diversity & Inclusiveness by EY, 2015

 

Studies:

• Study on constructive feedback in cross-racial interactions: Constructive Feedback in Cross-Race Interactions by Janet B. Ruscher, Devin L. Wallace, Kristin M. Walker, and Lindsay H. Bell, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2010

• Study on Diversity Metrics: What Diversity Metrics are Best Used to Track and Improve Employee Diversity? by Roscoe Balter, Joy Chow, Yin Jin, Cornell University, 2014

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Tools:

• Sample Equity Strategies by Meyer Memorial Trust

• A tool created by Meyer to assess organizational DEI progress: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Spectrum Tool by Meyer Memorial Trust

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Session 3: May 25, 2022

"Environmental & Climate Justice: Solving Deadly Outcomes Hidden in the Land, Water, & Air"

 

In the third session of 2022, participants learned about environmental and climate justice (ECJ), its connection to DEI, their workplaces, and communities, strategies to engage in ECJ work, and solutions to implement in their spheres of influence.

 

Dr. Deb L. Morrison and Chris Cameron of CLEAR Environmental, facilitators for this session, provided the following resources to extend participants’ learning.

  

Articles:

• Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth by Tara Y. Josso, Taylor Francis Online, 2006.

• Centering Equity in Sustainable Buildings: Why Green Buildings are a Civil-Rights Issue by Jacqui Patterson and Mandy Lee, Green Built Alliance.  

• Climate Justice: How Business Climate Action Can Reduce Environmental Racism by Samantha Harris, BSR, 2020.

• No Trespassing: The U.S. Environmental Movement’s Long History of Exclusion by Dominic Scicchitano, Environmental Law Institute, 2020.

• People of Color Are on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis by Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, André Floyd, Green America.

• Black Women Are Leaders in the Climate Movement by Heather McTeer Toney, NY Times website, 2019.

• Environmental Justice: Moving Equity from Margins to Mainstream by Deeohn Ferris, Nonprofit Quarterly, 2019.

• Environmental organizations remain overwhelmingly white by the Yale Climate Connections Team, Yale Climate Connections, 2021.

• Bali Principles of Climate Change published by the International Climate Justice Network, CORP Watch, 2002.

• Delivering on Justice40 by Dr. Cecilia Martinez and Dr. Candace Vahlsing, White House, 2021.

• Capitalism and the Global Environment by David P. Turner,Taming the Technosphere website, 2021.

• Editorial: Exploring Climate Justice Learning: Visions, Challenges, and Opportunities by Morrison, D. L. & Bell, P. L. (2021). Connected Science Learning (Special Issue on Climate Learning), 3(5): National Science Teaching Association.

• Social Justice in the Science Classroom by Bell, P., & Morrison, D. (2020). May 2020 Next Gen Navigator, National Science Teacher Association. Guest editor for issue.

 

Books:

• All We Can Save by Katharine K. Wilkinson (One World, 2021)

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions, 2015)

• Diversity at Work: The Practice of Inclusion, edited by Bernardo M. Ferdman and Barbara R. Deane, see Chapter 13 (Jossey-Bass 1st Ed., 2013)

• Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019)

• The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas (Voracious, 2022)

• Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality by Robert D. Bullard, PhD. (Routledge, 3rd Edition, 2000)

• Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez, PhD (North Atlantic Books, 2022)

• American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders by Gary Y. Okihiro (University of CA Press, 2015)

 

Reports:

• Boards Are Increasingly Tying Goals to ESG Metrics As Demand From Shareholders Rises by Just Capital

• 2021 NGO & Foundation Transparency Report Card by Green 2.0

• RACE TO THE BOARD: Strategies for Readiness, Recruitment, and Retention of Black Trustees on Green Nonprofit Boards by InDeep Initiative

 

Tools:

• Corporate Performance Standards on Racial and Economic Equity: Developmental Approach and Methodology

• Serious Games is a tool to engage people in supporting climate change understanding  and decision making.

• Rez Mapper is interactive community mapping compact disc that incorporates GIS data layer maps, historical aerial photography, imagery from space, and Lakota language.

• WE ACT North Manhattan Climate Action Plan Map

• Navigating the Political Dimensions of Climate Change Teaching and Learning. STEM Teaching Tools Initiative, Institute for Science + Math Education. Seattle, WA: University of Washington. Morrison, D. L., McNevin, B. & Bell, P. (2021).

• Focusing science and engineering learning on justice-centered phenomena across PK-12. STEM Teaching Tools Initiative, Institute for Science + Math Education. Seattle, WA: University of Washington. Morrison, D., Bell, P., & Rhinehart, A. (2020).

• How can you advance equity and justice through science teaching? STEM Teaching Tools Initiative, Institute for Science + Math Education. Seattle, WA: University of Washington .Bell, P., Morrison, D. L., Arada, K., Garcia, M., & members of the Council of State Science Supervisors (CSSS). (2021).

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Websites:

• CLEAR Environmental – Facilitators Dr. Deb L. Morrison and Chris Cameron org website: 

• Deb L. Morrison’s website resources pages:

  • ​​https://www.debmorrison.me/resources/climate-justice-and-learning

  • https://www.debmorrison.me/resources/climate-and-environmental-justice-books

• Panelist organizations’ websites:

  • Taylor Morton: https://www.weact.org/; https://www.weact.org/campaigns/ejforum/

  • Solemi Hernandez: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

  • James Rattling Leaf: https://nccasc.colorado.edu/index.php/

• The All We Can Save Project addresses the climate crisis through community building. 

• National Geographic Superfund Site Map:

• Learning for Justice is seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people.

• Indigenous Clean Energy is a non-profit, community-driven enterprise working collaboratively to advance Indigenous inclusion in Canada’s clean energy future.

• Port of Seattle Environment Overview

• Deep South Center for Environmental Justice

• GMU Center for Climate Change Communication conducts unbiased communication research; helps government agencies, civic organizations, professional associations, and companies apply social science research to improve their public engagement initiatives; and trains students and professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve public engagement with climate change.

• Yale Climate Communications conducts scientific studies on public opinion and behavior; informs the decision-making of governments, media, companies, and advocates; educates the public about climate change; and helps build public and political will for climate action.

• White House Environmental Justice

• The Ace Observatory supports and accelerates a whole-of-society climate action approach.

• Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians is an organization dedicated to tribal sovereignty and self-determination.

• Front and Centered Environmental Justice organization.

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada provides those directly or indirectly affected by the legacy of the Indian Residential Schools system with an opportunity to share their stories and experiences: 

• Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Environmental Philanthropy (InDEEP) is a professional development series that engages a network of foundation staff, including senior leaders, committed to integrating racial equity and social justice throughout their environmental philanthropy.

• NAACP Home Page for ECJ provides links and general information about the importance of ECJ to BIPOC communities.

• Nonprofit independent media company committed to telling stories of climate solutions and a just world.

• Climate learning resources on the STEM Teaching Tools website.

 

Podcasts:

• Future Ecologies is a podcast about relationships – between, within, amongst, and all around us.

• S2E8 Indigenous Perspectives on Just Transitions with Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte on    Climate Conversations: A Climate Change Podcast (January 17, 2018):

• Climate Colonialism and Reparations with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on the For the Wild Podcast (2021)

 

Videos:

• Climate is Social Justice by The Breakdown

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