Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility
At New 42, we aspire to be an organization that embraces, cultivates and sustains diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion as a collective group of individuals and throughout all our projects, programs and spaces. We acknowledge how essential it is for us to re-think and dismantle white-centered practices that have been embedded in our nonprofit for decades, and have caused harm and pain.
As a community of practitioners and learners, our approach has been uniquely communal and our plan to move the work forward involves the participation of everyone in the organization. What follows is a summary of the first steps in this stage of our anti-racism journey and the internal work we’ve done so far, including our internal definitions, our staff learning and decision-making structure, and the areas of focus on which our organizational plan is based.
Definitions
At the beginning of 2020, a group of staff from across different departments of the organization drafted definitions of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility for the work of New 42, which we have since adopted.