Workshops
REI Phase I Workshop, July 20-21, 2026
Sponsored by Joann & Perry Parks and The Y Collective
Inglewood, CA
The Racial Equity Institute’s two-day workshop is designed to develop the capacity of participants to better understand racism in its institutional and structural forms. Moving away from a focus on personal bigotry and bias, this workshop presents a historical, cultural, and structural analysis of racism. Topics covered include our fish/lake/groundwater analysis of structural racism; understanding and controlling implicit bias; race, poverty, and place; markedness theory; institutional power arrangements and power brokers; importance of definitions of race and racism; history and legacy of race in American economic and policy development; racial identity and its interaction with institutional culture. With shared language and a clearer understanding of how institutions and systems are producing unjust and inequitable outcomes, participants should leave the training better equipped to begin to work for change.
REI Phase I Workshop, Sep 17-18, 2026
Sponsored by Alameda County Community Food Bank & CSU East Bay
Hayward, CA
The Racial Equity Institute’s two-day workshop is designed to develop the capacity of participants to better understand racism in its institutional and structural forms. Moving away from a focus on personal bigotry and bias, this workshop presents a historical, cultural, and structural analysis of racism. Topics covered include our fish/lake/groundwater analysis of structural racism; understanding and controlling implicit bias; race, poverty, and place; markedness theory; institutional power arrangements and power brokers; importance of definitions of race and racism; history and legacy of race in American economic and policy development; racial identity and its interaction with institutional culture. With shared language and a clearer understanding of how institutions and systems are producing unjust and inequitable outcomes, participants should leave the training better equipped to begin to work for change.
Cambio Integral Latino Challenges Workshop, Oct 1-2, 2026
Sponsored by Alameda County Community Food Bank & Chabot College
Hayward, CA
Latino Challenges Toward Racial Justice is a two-day workshop (in-person and virtual) for people who live in or work with Latino communities and who seek to end racial inequities in our institutions and end racism in our society. Latino Challenges engages participants in a critical analysis of how racism disempowers Latino, Latina, Latinx people and communities, and undermines cross-racial antiracism efforts. This workshop offers insights into the social, cultural, political, and economic backdrop of race and racism in Latin America that shapes our people’s collective identity and circumstance in the US today.