Precision Microbiome Engineering Research

Racial Equity Institute DCI Groundwater Training
2023-02-08 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Mandatory training for all members of PreMiEr. See you email for the webinar link.
About REI Groundwater training (from: https://racialequityinstitute.org/groundwater-approach/)
The Groundwater metaphor is designed to help practitioners at all levels internalize the reality that we live in a racially structured society, and that that is what causes racial inequity. The metaphor is based on three observations:

racial inequity looks the same across systems,
socio-economic difference does not explain the racial inequity; and,
inequities are caused by systems, regardless of people’s culture or behavior.

Embracing these truths helps leaders confront the reality that all our systems, institutions, and outcomes emanate from the racial hierarchy, on which the United States was built. In other words, we have a “groundwater” problem, and we need “groundwater” solutions. Starting from there, we begin to unlock transformative change.

DCI Workshop : Microaggressions
2022-09-30 12:00 - 13:00
Microaggresisons, session 2 on the campus of Duke University.
Contact Dr. Karis Boyd-Sinkler if you are interested in attending.

DCI : Title IX @ 50
2022-09-29 13:00 - 19:00
Title IX literally changed the face of higher education. It remediated the exclusion of education from the earlier Civil Rights Act and made sex discrimination in education illegal. For many of women, affirmative action got our foot in the door, and Title IX allowed us to stay by giving us recourse when we faced harassment and discrimination in the tenure process. But enforcement took unexpected turns when athletics, not at all envisioned by the bill’s creators, became the main focus. After initial floundering, the government created compliance protocols for athletics, and only for athletics. Much progress has been made, but even in athletics, as the dramatic disparity in the NCAA bubble last year showed, there is much work to be done. And the question of why STEM seems to have benefitted so little from Title IX and whether Title IX could be used more effectively in STEM and related fields remains to be answered.
