REI Phase 1 Training Online
REI’s two-day Phase 1 training is designed to develop the capacity of participants to better understand racism in its institutional and structural forms.
Moving away from a focus on personal bigotry and bias, this workshop presents a historical, cultural, and structural analysis of racism. Topics covered include our fish/lake/groundwater analysis of structural racism; understanding and controlling implicit bias; race, poverty, and place; markedness theory; institutional power arrangements and power brokers; importance of definitions of race and racism; history and legacy of race in American economic and policy development; racial identity and its interaction with institutional culture. With shared language and a clearer understanding of how institutions and systems are producing unjust and inequitable outcomes, participants should leave the training better equipped to begin to work for change.
Engaging in DEIA work is essential to the strong and just future we all strive for together, and participating will help us build a strong foundation of shared understanding, vocabulary and focus on which to build.
If you have attended the Phase 1 training, you are able to attend as one of 5 Alumni, please email Christina Bonse at bonse2@illinois.edu.
- From:
- 9:00am, Tuesday, May 19, 2026
- To:
- 4:00pm, Wednesday, May 20, 2026
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Presenter:
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Library Colleagues Library Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop