Mission

Educating students, HR administrators, organization leaders, and policymakers to become dignified, selfless guardians and advocates of structural diversity in institutions. This begins with coaching students and emerging leaders to become sensitive and enlightened participants in society, teaching them to think and navigate through life as transformative leaders with an ethical and moral compass, especially in challenging situations where just laws for racial equity may not exist.

Vision

Creating dignified, diverse, enlightened, equitable, and loving environments in academic institutions, organizations, and political institutions for Black Americans, Latinos, and other marginalized people by systematically identifying and ending organizational cultures and policies that detract from racial equity, reinforce structural racism, and condone metastasized racism in institutions such as the University of Rhode Island, and in other blue states.

Change we Expect in Our Society Begins with Us as Educators

If the most educated and enlightened Whites among us in a university environment cannot change and rise above base instincts and the nativism of racism to act ethically, equitably and morally in the interest of all tribes in our small community, then how do we expect the rest of the nation to evolve and rise from the bondage of systemic racism to embrace change and love? The change we expect in our society starts with us as educators—we should stop talking, stop making hollow speeches with contrived statements about equity and inclusion; and without hesitation begin to act conscientiously and deliberately toward constructive diversity and expanding ethical conduct at URI and all universities nationally.