Category
Policy/Grassroots Politics
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Racial Equity & Justice brings racial equity and justice to communities across Maine. We provide valuable, historical, and experiential knowledge to those seeking to make changes to the way they engage with communities of color. For Non-Profit Organizations, Public & Private Sector Businesses, and Academic institutions, we provide analysis of systemic & individual racism through diversity training and consultations. Most importantly, we provide State of Maine certified solution based support & holistic approaches to healing for marginalized people of color who experience race based trauma, discrimination, and injustice in the forms of trainings, workshops, and advisory boards participation. As members of black, brown, & indigenous communities, we strongly believe in equity and just treatment systemically and individually for all our relatives regardless of race. With this work, we are challenging structural oppression, individual discrimination, and white privilege by educating agents of these systems and advocating and empowering the targets. We believe addressing the needs of the most marginalized members of Maine communities not only meets the needs of those people, but the needs of even the most privileged. In addition, we provide food security programs, resource distribution and allocation, as well as community based organizing centering the voices of communities of color.