Mar 30, 2021 | Career Development, What We're Reading
by Steph Salazar, Career Development Manager, College Fair Fight founder and former Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams made headlines during the 2020 presidential election. Abrams built a “well-funded network of organizations that highlighted voter...
Jan 28, 2021 | What We're Reading
Image courtesy of Getty and The Atlantic. Article link (June 2020) shared with permission from The Atlantic. This thought-provoking article by John Rice takes a hard look at organizational diversity practices, calling for alignment on what constitutes racist...
Jan 28, 2021 | What We're Reading
This engaging, personal and painful book by Stanford University psychology professor and researcher, Jennifer Eberhardt, uses neuroscience as a lens to examine stereotypes, racial discrimination and implicit and explicit bias. A pioneer of implicit bias training...
Jan 28, 2021 | What We're Reading
Our staff is committed to deepening our knowledge of anti-racist resources. Here is a list of books we are currently reading: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson The Mothers by Brit Bennett On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong...
Jan 28, 2021 | What We're Reading
Our staff is committed to deepening our knowledge of anti-racist resources. Here is a list of books we are currently reading: The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown Sister Outsider by...
Apr 16, 2020 | Community Stories, News, What We're Reading
by Ashley Sirls, Associate Director of Leadership Development Every summer at Rites of Passage (our 14-month Academic Enrichment Phase graduation ceremony), scholars are told that they are no longer in Rainier Scholars, but they are Rainier Scholars. This ceremony...
