Workshops
REI Phase I Workshop, March 26-27, 2026
Riverside, CA or Virtual
Registration TBD
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, May 13-14, 2026
Sponsored by Alameda County Community Food Bank
Oakland, 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, May 15-16, 2026
Sponsored by Tri-Valley Nonprofit Alliance
Oakland, CA
Workshop is invitation only
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.
Asian American Challenges Workshop, May 18-19, 2026
Sponsored by Alameda County Community Food Bank
Oakland, CA
Reiney Lin Consultants’ Asian American Challenges Toward Racial Justice is a two day workshop for people who are a part of, live in, or work with Asian American communities and who are invested in eliminating racism and racial inequities in our society. Using a race analysis, this workshop unpacks how racism uniquely disempowers Asian Americans, undermines cross-racial solidarity, and keeps a structural arrangement of power in place. Over the two days, participants will also explore the social, political, cultural, and economic ramifications resulting from geopolitical histories and realities and from the way Asian Americans have been racialized that shape Asian American identity and outcomes today.
Asian American Challenges Toward Racial Justice can serve as a complement to existing workshops that ground people in understanding racism as historically and structurally rooted such as the Racial Equity Institute’s Phase I workshop or as an entry point for Asian Americans to understand how racism impacts their communities.