Rooting

Throughout the program YC will curate a list of resources to support your learning. 

Guest Speaker Conversations

• Accountability with Dr. Gámez

• Accountability with Maurine Knighton

• Action with F. Javier Torres-Campos

• Courage and Conviction with Celeste

• Courage and Conviction with Malkia Devich-Cyril

• Courage and Conviction with Ellice Patterson

• Declarations with Kristina Newman-Scott

• Declarations with Simran Noor

• Institutional narratives, structure, and culture with Selina Morales

• Institutional Work with Alejandra Duque-Cifuentes

• Interlocking and Interdependent (Systems Thinking)
  with Paloma McGregor

• Interlocking and Interdependent (Systems Thinking)
  with Shawn Theodore

• Rooting and Embracing Differences with Marianna S. Schaffer

• Shared Understanding with Deepa Iyer

• Shared Understanding with Tiffany Wilhelm

• Strategy with Ginger Daniel

• Strategy with E. Andrew Taylor

• Strategy II with E. Andrew Taylor

• Systemic Humanism with Celeste and Tulaine Montgomery

• Undoing Whiteness with Tim Cynova

• Undoing Whiteness with Michele Russo

• Undoing Whiteness with Meredith Whittaker

• Vision with J. Bob Alotta

• Vision with F. Javier Torres-Campos

• Vision with Tulaine Montgomery

• You and Other | Personal Institutional with Jennifer Wright Cook

Protocols

• Communal Agreements

• Territory Acknowledgement

• Land Acknowledgement Resources:

  • Lenape Center

  • Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania Cultural Center

  • The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation

  • IllumiNative

• Anti-Asian Resources:

  • Bystander Intervention Training To Stop Anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic Harassment

  • Anti-Asian Violence Resources

Terms and Frameworks

• Glossary of Terms

• Spelling of antisemitism vs. anti-Semitism

• Memo on Spelling of Antisemitism

• Elections 2020: Using the Social Change Map to Identify Your Roles and Support Your Ecosystem

• Dodge Foundation Equity Framework

• Mosaic Network and Fund

• Racial Equity in Arts Funding

• Beyond Strategic: Planning Rooted in Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Values 

• The “Five S” Methodology For Designing Effective Social Interventions

• The Water of Systems Change

Assessments

• Implicit Association Test

• Young Audiences Arts For Learning Staff Inclusion Survey

• Racial Equity and Philanthropy: Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table

• Mass Action Readiness Assessment and Toolkit

Articles

• Peggy McIntosh’s Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

• Shane Snow’s How Psychological Safety Actually Works

• Illustration of Ruby Bridges and Kamala Harris Goes Viral

• How Systemic Racism Shaped George Floyd’s Life

• Black Men Matter – Examining Mental Health Issues Among Black Men – A Guide To Freedom

• Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation

• 2020. Is This the Era Where “We, the People” is Possible

• The Case for Reparations

• Moving Beyond Diversity Toward Racial Equity

• American Women Lost More Than 5 Million Jobs In 2020

• Mia Mingus, Dreaming Accountability

• What if we get things right? Visions for 2030

• Working Apart So We Can Work Together

• The Real Rosa Parks Story Is Better Than the Story Tale

• Swearing Is Actually a Sign of More Intelligence - Not Less - Say Scientists

• Whitewashing the Great Depression

• The privilege to fail: How the benefits of trust and failure are not equitably distributed

• Building a Culture That Works for All of Us

• The Campaign to Cancel Wokeness

• Mark Thomas Gibson & Mario Moore in Conversation On Zoom

• These Machines Won’t Kill Fascism: Toward a Militant Progressive Vision for Tech

Music

• Sphinx Organization’s performance of “Glory”

Videos & Films

• John Lewis Speaks on Courage

• Natalie Diaz: Manhattan is a Lenape Word

• The Next Generation of Native Activism is Alive

• Fannie Lou Hamer's Powerful Testimony | Freedom Summer

• AXIS Dance Company: Making Contemporary Dance Inclusive for All

• Bryan Stevenson: The Power of Proximity

• Yuri Kochiyama

• Celebrating Ruby Bridges

• Judy Heumann: Disability is a strength

• 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising

• Crip Camp

• The symbols of systemic racism - and how to take away their power

• WNYC and Apollo Theater Present: MLK and the Fierce Urgency of Now!

• Guppi Bola: Decolonising Economics

• Art: What Does the Future Look Like? The Future is Ours To Create

• Tatiana Garavito: Democratic Ownership

• This Land’s Not Your Land: by Native Singer Jessa Calderon

• Bridgewalkers (2013)

• A Conversation with Native Americans on Race

• Proud to Be (Mascots) 2014

• Honor Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgement

• Amy Cuddy | TEDGlobal 2012 Your body language may shape who you are

• Tara Houska | The Last Holders

• University Plan 2025: Uplift Indigenization

• A Culinary Journey to Save the Amazon

• Dr. Robin DiAngelo Breaks Down White Fragility

• When They See Us

• 13TH

Organizations

• The Nap Ministry

• Work. Shouldn’t. Suck.

• The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribe

• Ramapough Lenape Nation

• Americans with Disabilities Act National Network

• Girl Trek

• Arts Education Advisory Committee of AFTA

• A Long Walk Home

• Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance

• Abolitionist Teaching Network

• Intelligent Mischief

• Design Studio for Social Intervention

• IllumiNative

• The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation

• Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania Cultural Center

• Lenape Center

• BIPOC Owned Bookstores:

  • Literary Hub

  • Picture Book

  • The Little Boho Bookshop

Books

• Disability Visibility

• Caste

• Stamped from the Beginning

• How To Be An Antiracist

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

• The Half Has Never Been Told

• Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

• Salt

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed

• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Changing, Changing Worlds

• Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities

• Parable of the Sower

• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

• Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results

• Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time

• Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity

• The Rebel

Tools

• Jamboard