Equity Resources

A book about whiteness. November’s equity resource comes recommended to us by Nicole (Ole) Rapson, Math teacher at Washburn High […]

This month’s Equity Resource is a short video with an important message recommended by Equity Committee member Mel Ferris. “Looking […]

by Mia Birdsong For September’s Equity Resource, Tangletown Neighborhood Association’s interim executive director Andrea Siegel recommends How We Show Up, […]

For August’s Equity Resource, Maggie Rittenhouse, Tangletown resident, recommends the book “Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Davis as an incredible […]

Radicalize your travel by being a better guest in someone else’s homeland. June’s equity resource comes recommended to us by Andy […]

For this month’s resource, Washburn teacher and Equity Team lead Luis Saenz recommends “The Racial Wealth Gap” from the organization […]

For April’s Equity Resource, Deb White Soulen, Tangletown resident, suggested we listen to our Indigenous neighbors/community, who are often forgotten in […]

For this month’s equity resource, Washburn High School Principal Emily Palmer recommends the book Black Dignity in a World Made […]

For this month’s equity resource, Equity Committee member Ellen Block recommends the article “The Great Climate Migration” by Abrahm Lustgarten. […]

The monthly equity resource comes to you from a new Equity Committee member Shannon Mitchell. The resource pairs with the […]

For this month’s equity resource, Equity Committee member Kyle Goldschmidt recommends the documentary Breaking Bread, Building Bridges, which won the 2020 Governor’s […]

As part of the Equity Committee research into understanding of systemic issues of segregation in Minneapolis, member Nancy Hamilton Britt […]

This month’s resource comes from new Equity Committee member Jessie Krohn: Resmaa Menakem is a Twin Cities-based body-centered therapist who […]

For this month’s equity resource, Equity Committee member Ellen Block recommends “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Written by […]

For this month’s equity resource, Equity Committee Member Andrea Siegel recommends, Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret by […]

This month’s equity resource comes from committee member Lori Gubrud, “I have read three books that all have provided insight […]

This month, Equity Task Force member Victoria Fok shares her personal experience of the importance of representation in media, “Growing […]

This month’s Equity Resource is shared by task force member Lauren Day: I have spent most of my life in […]

Equity Task Force Member Pat Collins shares, “Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s in the white bubble of a […]

Equity Task Force Member Juliann Brunzell served 33 years in law enforcement and saw firsthand the workings of the Criminal […]

From Equity Task Force Member Leah Sweet: A few years ago, I picked up a copy of Death of Innocence: […]

From Equity Task Force Member Stijn Vanhauwaert: “Not having grown up in this country, I felt that I have never […]