Content based on the UC Master Gardener Coordinator site, created by Melissa Womack
Trainings
The training resources listed approach equity topics from a compliance perspective and do not necessarily replace training or readings offered by organizations with a specific social justice or racial equity lens. These pieces of training are useful as part of a complete diversity, equity, and inclusion approach.
- Implicit Bias YouTube Series
UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion offers a seven-part implicit bias video series for public use. - UC Managing Implicit Bias Series
The UC Managing Implicit Bias Series is accessible to UC employees via their division-specific online UC Learning Center. Most UC ANR Personnel have UC Davis UC Learning Center access. Please contact UC ANR Learning and Development if you need support. This series is available to volunteers (without certification) through the UCOP links in this UC Master Gardener Program blog post.
Presentations
- "Campus Climate, Inclusive Science, and Institutional Change"-Sylvia Hurtado, UC Davis
This lecture was part of The UC Davis Forums on the Public University and the Social Good, delivered on October 26, 2017. Dr. Hurtado discusses recent developments in campus climate and a new model of inclusive science that integrates diversity in undergraduate education and faculty development. - “How to be an Anti-Racist”-Ibram X. Kendi, UC Berkeley, 2019
- "Rise Up for Justice: Black Lives and Our Collective Future"- various organizers, including Emira Woods, Marvin K. White, John A. Powell, and more, UC Berkeley, 2020
- “Structural Racism, Social Justice, and Covid-19”-Nancy Krieger, UC Berkeley, 2020
- "Food Sovereignty and the Role of Extension Webinar: Partnerships that Work"- Janie Simms Hipp, Jennifer K. Gauthier, and Brian Kowalkowski, Michigan State University's Center for Regional Food Systems, 2019
- "Measuring Racial Equity in the Food System: Established and Suggested Metrics"-Kathryn Colasanti, Joann Lo, and Lindsey Lunsford, Michigan State University's Center for Regional Food Systems, 2019
- "Land-Grant Institutions and Food Systems: Acknowledging Historical Disparities and Exploring Present-day Equity Initiatives"-Barry H. Dunn, Robert Zabawa, and Jodi Williams, Michigan State University's Center for Regional Food Systems, 2019
Vocabulary
- UC Davis Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Glossary
- UC Berkeley Advancing Language for Equity and Inclusion
- (Nonprofit organization) Racial Equity Tools Glossary - This glossary is thorough and well-curated. Don’t miss the ‘About’ section, which describes the evolving nature of and, therefore, evolving language related to equity work/research.
Readings
- "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Professional Development Offering of the Extension Foundation Impact Collaborative" by Lindsey Lunsford.
This publication is a great starting point to gain access to information, experts, training, and resources that can help you develop or conceptualize your program. - "Food—Systems—Racism: From Mistreatment to Transformation" by Eric Giménez and Breeze Harper - Food First’s Dismantling Racism in the Food System Series
This excellent and succinct history of racial inequity in the US food system is available for download. - "The Color of Food" by Yvonne Yen Liu and Dominque Apollon
This white paper from the Applied Research Center compiles data related to racial inequity in the whole of the food system (from production to distribution) and offers equity-related “good food movement” critiques that are essential to thinking about a more sustainable agriculture. - “Levels of Racism: A Theoretical Framework and a Gardener’s Tale” by Camara Phyllis Jones
This accessible academic paper uses the metaphor of a garden to explain three levels of racism institutionalized, personally-mediated, and internalized. The article is attached. - "Land-grab Universities: Expropriated Indigenous Land is the Foundation of the Land-Grant University System" by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone
This article is a must-read for anyone working in Cooperative Extension in the United States. - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
4-H Academics Fe Moncloa (Santa Clara) and Liliana Vega (Santa Barbara) are currently hosting an online summer 2020 reading group focused on this text. While the reading group is now capacity, all are welcome to purchase a book and read along in solidarity. Be sure to check out DiAngelo’s free reading guide on her website.
Additional Resources
- For additional UC ANR staff resources focused on Diversity Equity and Inclusion visit the UC ANR Diversity webpage.
- UC Davis is committed to a university community rooted in respect, where human dignity is honored, voices are valued, and open expression is embraced with care and understanding.
- The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley brings together researchers, organizers, stakeholders, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society in order to create transformative change.