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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Resources to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion in your League. 

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DEI Module 4: Understanding and Partnering With Your Community - Part 1

The purpose of this module is to offer a deeper understanding of how to collect information to understand the diversity of your community, membership, and engagers.

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DEI Success Stories: LWV of Greater Omaha (NE)

Joanna Lindberg is the Get-Out-the-Vote co-chairperson for the LWV of Greater Omaha. She shared with us the different ways that her League has applied a diversity, equity and inclusion lens to their voter education and voter turnout efforts has made their work more impactful and how it has strengthened the League.

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August 2019 DEI Webinar

Acknowledging the Past, Reimagining the Future
August 29,2019

Past LWVUS President Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins presented this webinar speaking about the courageous and often overlooked women of color, and how we can move forward to actualize our values as individuals and as an organization.

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DEI Success Stories: LWV of Janesville (WI)

Mary Buelow is the Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee of the LWV of Janesville in Wisconsin. She shared with us how her League has worked to educate its members and leadership on race-related issues in order to make their DEI work within the community more impactful.

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July 2019 DEI Webinar

Making a Personal DEI Commitment
July 25, 2019

This webinar explored how each of us should make a personal commitment to DEI and use it to enhance our League work in this area. The webinar provided resources for doing so and all participants were asked to commit to doing at least one thing over the next six months.

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DEI Success Stories: National Disability Voter Registration Week

July 15-19, 2019 is National Disability Voter Registration Week. We spoke to Leagues from all over the country about the steps they are taking to empower individuals with disabilities and to create a more accessible and fair democracy for the larger communities the League serves.

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June 2019 DEI Webinar

DEI Lens
June 27, 2019

This webinar explored the concept of a DEI lens, how to view your League work through it, and how to expand that work to be more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Examples were provided on mission impact work through a DEI lens. 

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DEI Success Stories: LWV of Dearborn/Dearborn Heights (MI)

Betsy Cushman is the Voter Service Chair of the LWV of Dearborn/Dearborn Heights in Michigan . She shared with us how their League has worked to partner with local Arab-American and Muslim communities through their Youth Voter Registration Project and offered diversity training to their volunteers to assist with voter registration and engagement.

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May 2019 DEI Webinar

Feminist Friendship
May 24, 2019

This webinar was presented by Dr. Cori Wong.

Dr. Cori Wong serves as Assistant Vice President for Gender Equity in the Office of the Vice President for Diversity at Colorado State University and Director of the Women & Gender Collaborative, a presidential initiative to improve the campus culture and climate around gender. Passionate about intersectional feminism as a means for liberation and political transformation, Dr. Wong centers education, critical reflection, and dialogue across difference as strategies for individuals, groups, and organizations to create supportive and inclusive cultures where all people can thrive. She demonstrates that when done well, the work to get there can be as fun and exciting as it is important and challenging.

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DEI Success Stories: LWV of Montana

Nancy Leifer is the President of the LWV of Montana. She shared with us how DEI was the focus of their recent State Convention by highlighting three aspects of DEI work. She also shared how this inspired a focus on Native American voting rights as part of their mission impact work.

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DEI Success Stories: LWV of Wisconsin

Erin Grunze and Ellen Penwell are staff members for the LWV of Wisconsin. They shared with us a series of activities their League has done to promote internal change and strengthen their mission impact work by applying a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) lens.  Erin Grunze and Ellen Penwell are staff members for the LWV of Wisconsin. They shared with us a series of activities their League has done to promote internal change and strengthen their mission impact work by applying a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) lens.  

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April 2019 DEI Webinar

The Power of Words and Common Definitions
April 25, 2019

Using our DEI policy and our definitions of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion  this webinar covered the words we use in our DEI work and their meaning. We discussed the importance of knowing what specific words mean and when to use them and how similar words have important distinctions. 

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