https://www.equalityworks.org/home daily 1.0 2022-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/8a1a4ec4-c432-4bba-a410-61f47d81f78f/germany-diversity-society-living-equality.jpg Our Mission - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/0a20e769-0150-4500-8b0a-2fb52347237c/diversity-management-header_w800.jpg Our Mission - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/7eaf07b1-dff7-4561-8337-e7f3fd690d21/iStock-871518740%2520%25281%2529.jpg Our Mission - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649543884335-GNNSTKNEWW2OIA1NUGMK/unsplash-image-o4mP43oPGHk.jpg Our Mission - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649534080719-X2PG1JK6M7YNC3LC2ULD/unsplash-image-faEfWCdOKIg.jpg Our Mission - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649534351672-T4RQ788S65SE5KS8WJ42/unsplash-image-RMweULmCYxM.jpg Our Mission - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.equalityworks.org/projects daily 0.75 2021-04-23 https://www.equalityworks.org/disclaimer daily 0.75 2021-04-23 https://www.equalityworks.org/richard-bio daily 0.75 2022-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1627166318155-RNQ55NHXGU1ZOKX7XD6X/IMG_5545.jpeg Richard Bio - Richard Shapiro, Ph.D. INNOVATE! Founding Co-Director Richard Shapiro (he/him) is an educator and anthropologist with a sustained history of leadership in building innovative academic programs and alliance building. Dr. Shapiro is involved in creating emancipatory, activist, and multicultural education, focused on social justice, ecological sustainability, and cultural diversity. His teaching and program development facilitate student capacity in critical thinking, multiple perspectives, self-reflection, openness to others, connection to heritage, global awareness, alliance building across differences, ethical engagement, and strategic action. His teaching, research mentorship, and curricular design focuses on capacity building that integrates scholarship, research, and advocacy through collaboration with communities of practice. Richard has developed interactive processes, academic curricula, pedagogical methods, and communicative practices for engaging issues of cultural difference and social oppression in ways that are facilitative of individual learning, collective solidarity, and healing from social trauma. His work explores the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, caste, faith, ability, indigeneity, language, culture, and history in the constitution of subjectivity, power relations, forms of knowledge, and modes of governance. Dr. Shapiro’s work has taken him to various sites in South Asia, Europe, South Africa, Latinx America, and North America. He is working to overcome the digital divide through shifts in the design, development, and implementation of technology to enable equity and quality education for all. He is working to document, preserve, and develop learning materials in indigenous and minority languages in Nepal. He co-founded the Jewish-Muslim Friendship Circle with Kashmiri allies in 2008 and facilitates interfaith dialogue in multiple settings. Richard has a Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership from Northcentral University, an M.A. in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research, and a B.A. with a double major in Politics and Modern Society and Social Thought from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Richard also studied at the Collège de France with Michel Foucault in 1981 and 1983-1984. Richard is grateful that his grandparents escaped pogroms in the Ukraine and Poland, settling in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and that his parents migrated to Los Angeles post World War II. He also feels blessed to share his life with Angana Chatterji, a scholar/advocate from Kolkata, India. Richard celebrates humor as a practice that shifts the boundaries of the possible by saying the unsayable in ways that provoke catharsis and reflection. https://www.equalityworks.org/peiching-bio daily 0.75 2022-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1621967512542-E3LQD5ZRI1SAPJ30EOM0/me.jpg Pei-Ching Bio - Pei-Ching Wu, M.S. INNOVATE! Technical Director Pei-Ching Wu (he/him) is a software developer based in Berlin, Germany. He started his technical career working with e-commerce and website technologies but has since moved on to mobile app development. He has worked with a wide spectrum of companies, from 6-person startups to multi-national corporations. In his spare time, Pei-Ching is involved with a local charitable organization that supports the homeless and needy on the streets of Berlin. He hopes to help his organization expand its services in the future to include re-integration and housing for those that want it. Pei-Ching has a Master of Science in Information Technology from the University of Applied Sciences in Esslingen, Germany and a BA in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley. Pei-Ching was born in Taiwan, but grew up in three different corners of the U.S. He also traveled around Europe and Asia for judo over the span of almost two decades, but in recent years, he has traded the judo halls for bouldering halls. He speaks English, German, and Mandarin. https://www.equalityworks.org/peihsuan-bio daily 0.75 2022-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1622502699859-PPWY01QFQ4JSFJDESJGS/Reddoor_BW3.jpg Pei-hsuan Bio - Pei-hsuan Wu, Ed.D. INNOVATE! Founding Co-Director and EQW Treasurer Pei-hsuan Wu (she/her) is an independent scholar, social justice advocate and technology worker. Dr. Wu’s work in the United States has addressed diverse issues from a critical and intersectional perspective. These issues include diasporic nationalism and education, historical revisionism and social sciences curricula, homelessness/poverty, environmental issues and public policy, students’ rights, workers’ rights, equitable access to technology, and cooperative economic organization. She has assisted on research and advocacy related to projects in Asia, including political and gendered violence, routinized oppression and resistance, alliance-building with civil society groups, human rights movements, and maldevelopment. Since 2013, Pei-hsuan has been an Extern, Research Assistant, and is currently Research Associate with the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender, University of California at Berkeley. She was a Research and Communications Assistant with the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir from 2008-2012. She is also a full-time telecommunications technician with a firm serving nonprofits and small businesses in California. Pei-hsuan has an Ed.D. in International and Multicultural Education with a concentration in Human Rights Education, from the University of San Francisco, an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation at CIIS, and a B.A. in Environmental Sciences, U.C. Berkeley. Pei-hsuan was born in Taiwan, grew up in the U.S., and has traveled for social justice work to Colombia, India, Mexico, Nepal, South Africa, and other countries. She is multilingual, speaking English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. Particularly fond of cats, Pei values the intelligence and beauty of the diverse flora and fauna of earth. https://www.equalityworks.org/contact daily 0.75 2022-04-22 https://www.equalityworks.org/research-assessment daily 0.75 2022-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649558568310-XQ2E1J5G9S18SURZ77R9/unsplash-image-W3Jl3jREpDY.jpg Research & Assessment - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.equalityworks.org/workshops daily 0.75 2022-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649544561624-GQKK3RFWQQA53OIGRS5Y/unsplash-image-5aiRb5f464A.jpg Workshops - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.equalityworks.org/community-events daily 0.75 2022-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649558628248-3BBPIE3M7L5XHJYCOY7A/unsplash-image-96DW4Pow3qI.jpg Community Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.equalityworks.org/strategic-planning daily 0.75 2022-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649558784995-TT8WZMNVP31X1XX66PYN/unsplash-image-f2C59x5uvn8.jpg Strategic Planning - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.equalityworks.org/team daily 0.75 2025-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649529809952-LBWFWNMXF3IZ4H57BKAY/RS_Wall.png Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649530127948-5HQHZSCR8JZ6OL5J5OBL/Reddoor_BW3.jpg Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649530875180-VEY0D2BI86PLXKVEWGZJ/pei2%252Bphoto.jpg Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649530093456-L4K1057O2I141Y8BH9ZO/Reddoor_BW.jpg Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/63135350-9185-4e52-9147-1971e9eaafbe/Bahar.jpeg Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/3c2ba2dc-ab6f-487a-8649-5611f25d319f/jazz.png Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1650690841115-LMCIU0TVOXUIC7BWFWWB/Fredrick.jpg Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1650822160100-NH1TZOS2JTOQIY008DQQ/Asma.jpg Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/84f177e5-035b-48bd-88d0-b6ab8513dfd7/April.jpg Team https://www.equalityworks.org/about-us daily 0.75 2022-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/c3acae1f-7c8d-49e2-8d6f-6815b7146192/Ocean.jpg About Us - MISSION Equality Works develops and publishes educational tools and materials for building a culture of respect and dignity within the workplace. We focus on providing resources for addressing systemic discrimination at its roots in culture, society, and history through educational interventions in the form of workshops, creative arts and multimedia projects, written and visual guides, and a library of resources through a human rights lens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/b529265a-938c-4787-a95d-7a61cf9c7ce1/Sky.jpeg About Us - HISTORY In 2013, Equality Works (EQW) was founded with the mission to provide resources to overcome gendered discrimination in the workplace. April Harlo and four of her fellow alumni from the University of San Francisco (USF) International & Multicultural Education (IME) Masters’ Program started EQW to address gendered workplace discrimination through a critical human rights and intersectional feminist lens. The organization was rejuvenated in the fall of 2016 when the Board of Directors sought to expand EQW’s scope of work and programs. That October Jazzmin was brought on as EQW’s Executive Director and began contacting her fellow IME and Human Rights Education alumni and community members to join the organization. April and Asma stayed on as board members, while Breana Bahar Hansen remained in their position as secretary. Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd and Pei-hsuan Wu joined the board that same year. In 2017, Equality Works began developing programs at the intersection of worker’s rights, the right to workplace equality, and freedom from discrimination in the workplace. The first project— a Worker’s Rights Pocketbook— is in the Past EQW Projects section. In 2021, EQW invited Innovate! to join the organization. Innovate! is undertaking work to facilitate learning in the areas of democratic practices in workplaces and hospitality to difference in organizational cultures. Innovate! was founded by EQW member Pei-hsuan Wu and Richard Shapiro. Pei-Ching Wu is also an original member of the team. https://www.equalityworks.org/innovate daily 0.75 2022-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/c3acae1f-7c8d-49e2-8d6f-6815b7146192/Ocean.jpg Innovate! - Building cultures of ongoing learning and growth Innovate! undertakes research and provides consultations, workshops, and ongoing programs to address organizational opportunities and challenges, improve awareness of organizational issues and dynamics, construct scalable processes to address conflict, enhance consensus building, enable research-based action plans, and create workplace environments rich in learning, growth, and connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649561290493-WCUL4X27N5821CEDSDKB/unsplash-image-5U_28ojjgms.jpg Innovate! - Supporting diversity and social justice throughout an organization How do we assess our organization in relation to social justice? What are our understandings of the relations between diversity and social justice? How do we understand what constitutes success in relation to diversity and social justice? Who do we need as honest participants in determining diversity challenges, goals, plans, and strategies? How do we incorporate ongoing learning on issues of justice to integrate capacity to respond into our organizational culture? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649539190843-EQL17IM0LYP3N5ZGWARP/unsplash-image-UOwvwZ9Dy6w.jpg Innovate! - Energizing personal and group healing through addressing ongoing effects of social oppression How can the organization build greater capacity for collaboration and strengthen commitments to shared futures that unleash people’s creativity and facilitate their healing? What capacities exist to effectively engage the ongoing effects of social trauma and oppression in individuals and the organization? What changes may be enabled through research, education, and collaborative alliances? How may we develop a workplace culture marked by fairness, equity, collegiality, and hospitality to creativity and social difference? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/0a20e769-0150-4500-8b0a-2fb52347237c/diversity-management-header_w800.jpg Innovate! - Supporting cultures of democratic participation and shared leadership How do we create environments hospitable to different identities, histories, experiences, and perspectives? How may we communicate to facilitate learning and creative collaboration? What structures do we need to ensure fairness when addressing conflict and mistreatment? In contexts of different positions of institutional authority, what processes and mechanisms enable justice and accountability? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/8a1a4ec4-c432-4bba-a410-61f47d81f78f/germany-diversity-society-living-equality.jpg Innovate! - Addressing limits and building networks of mutual aid How does a group learn to identify limits and find support? What internal and external mechanisms and relationships need development to support the well-being of all members of the organization? What are the benefits of building ecosystems of mutual aid with other groups? How may our organizational capacity and identity be enhanced through strengthening the ecosystems in which we co-exist? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649544319309-LUPV4ZUKO2XJBG6YLFY5/unsplash-image-cw-cj_nFa14.jpg Innovate! - Developing capacities to recognize and transform detrimental organizational and social dynamics Are there organizational structures and dynamics that stifle trust, creativity, honesty, and engaged interaction? Are there issues that need attention that are taboo to acknowledge? Is fear used to govern and manage employees? Do those with administrative authority seek conformity? Are there structures that protect employees from abuses of authority? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649539415631-5C8F596JS0ISC01G5OGP/unsplash-image-Hzp-1ua8DVE.jpg Innovate! - Conducting Collaborative Research for Education, Advocacy, and Policy Change We bring considerable experience and expertise in research through alliance with communities of practice. Through collaborative processes that foster participation from multiple stakeholders, we co-design strategic action plans facilitative of democratic social change. We undertake research and education on various social issues, attentive to complex intersections and assemblages. Issues include racism, sexism, heterosexism, class oppression, prisoners’ rights, disability, veterans’ support, neuro diversity, Islamophobia, indigenous cultural survival, anti-Semitism, whiteness, and climate justice. Our work maps inequities across sectors, addressing relations between technology, education, housing, the carceral system, economic policy, and political structures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649537423888-RNW9L1ZH9AHYJYGAZXDQ/unsplash-image-f2C59x5uvn8.jpg Innovate! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649537648540-N61ZKCTRJ416C95K9P16/unsplash-image-96DW4Pow3qI.jpg Innovate! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649537855849-384DVLNC4IIWUU9S6ADZ/unsplash-image-5aiRb5f464A.jpg Innovate! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/1649537907648-ZCXZIPWB6W140U0IZZF9/unsplash-image-W3Jl3jREpDY.jpg Innovate! https://www.equalityworks.org/jazzmin-bio daily 0.75 2022-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/3c2ba2dc-ab6f-487a-8649-5611f25d319f/jazz.png Jazz Bio - Jazzmin Chizu Gota, M.A. Equality Works Board Member Jazzmin Chizu Gota (she/her) is a doctoral student in International and Multicultural Education with a concentration in Human Rights Education at the University of San Francisco. She works with the national human rights education network, Human Rights Educators USA (HRE USA), as a regional representative for Northern California, and multimedia consultant. https://www.equalityworks.org/breana-bio daily 0.75 2022-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/63135350-9185-4e52-9147-1971e9eaafbe/Bahar.jpeg Breana Bio - Breana Bahar Hansen, Ed.D. Equality Works Founding Board Member & Secretary Dr. Breana Bahar Hansen, Ed.D., (they/them) identifies as a white anti-racist queer nonbinary transgender-inclusive feminist activist, dyslexic educator, and life-long learner. Breana is a tenured professor in Queer and Interdisciplinary Studies at City College of San Francisco. They are one of the co-founders of Equality Works, alongside April Harlo (she/her) and the late Asma Eschen (she/her). Breana co-created the first Queer Studies course, Queering Human Rights Education, in their doctoral program International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco. Their dissertation, “What’s Race Got To Do With It?”: Lived Experiences of Students in Queer Studies Navigating Questions of Identity and Activism at City College of the Bay, identified how curricula in Queer Studies both reflect and ignore the lived experiences of Queer Trans Black Indigenous People of Color by engaging students as co-researchers in Virtual Participatory Action Research. https://www.equalityworks.org/fredrick-bio daily 0.75 2022-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608089103eee6a0f9facb06f/0dc2b124-6d5e-42bf-83c0-cf1c384b753a/Fredrick.jpg Fredrick Bio - Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd, M.A. Equality Works Board Member Fredrick Douglas Kakinami Cloyd (he/him) is an independent writer, scholar, artist/performer-activist whose work focuses on history and the individual in relation to social justice. He was born in Japan shortly after the official U.S. occupation of Japan. His Postwar Black-American and Japanese heritages are fuel for his social-historical memoir on a historical Black Pacific entitled: Dream of the Water Children: Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific. Fredrick’s essay: “On Being a Black-Japanese Amerasian Being,” was included in the anthology: The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives About Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century and he has been published in such publications as Kartika Review, Oakland Word, The Pacific Reader, Nikkei Heritage, as well as featured on various radio and television programs and interviews. In 2012, he was one of the artists featured in the Japanese National Historical Society (NJAHS) Exhibit celebrating the opening of a new Japanese-American museum in San Francisco entitled “Generation Nexus: Peace in the Post-War Era.” He has done presentations, consults and facilitated workshops related to Black Pacific issues, anti-oppression perspectives on identity and social change. At the University of California, he was a presenter for the prestigious Andrew-Sawyer Lecture Series entitled: Transpacific Approach to Critical Mixed Race Studies, as well as the Coordinator of the 2018 Symposium on Japanese War Brides which was recorded on C-Span as: Japanese War Brides—Occupation & Migration. He is a staff writer for the Hapa Project based at the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at University of Southern California. He received his Masters in a postcolonial social cultural anthropology program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. His studies took him to Europe and Turkey with a focus on social justice advocacy and community-building.