The UW-IT Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Community of Practice invites you to join us for a conversation on the topic of Black Lives Matter, where people can share their thoughts in an inclusive, safe space, and offer ideas on what actions can be taken in our professions to promote equity and inclusion and work to dismantle systemic racism.

Please submit any questions or topics at https://bit.ly/DEICOP-BLMchat

Here’s what you can expect from this 1.5-hour session:

At 11:30am, please join us at https://washington.zoom.us/j/8129818843 where we will all meet together for the first 30 minutes, from 11:30am to 12 noon. This portion of the discussion will introduce the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Community of Practice; address what is bringing us all together today; and set ground rules for the discussions. We will also provide a general overview of the UW's existing resources; hiring policies and trainings pertaining to bias; and future actions for UW, UW-IT, and the DEI CoP. 

At 12 noon, we will break out into several different Zoom rooms, organized into topics based on your suggestions and feedback. (Note that these will be entirely different Zoom rooms, not breakout rooms.) Each room will have facilitators from the DEI CoP. 

You can join and leave as many of the topical sessions as you like during the next hour. We will take a short break at the half-hour mark, which will also provide an opportunity to switch to a different room at that time. 

The topical Zoom rooms opening at 12 noon will be:

• The current protests (impact on UW, how to engage, how to effect change) https://washington.zoom.us/j/9543342403 
  
• How to talk about race (with coworkers, family, friends, kids) https://washington.zoom.us/j/3134275070
  
• Building a diverse and inclusive workforce (hiring, retention, accommodations, training) https://washington.zoom.us/j/7109097788 
  
• Personal accountability in the workplace (change the culture, detect & correct biases, actions we can take personally) https://washington.zoom.us/j/7206346580
  
• Resources (what to read, organizations/websites to follow, inclusive vocabulary) https://washington.zoom.us/j/5851937765 
  

Worth Repeating:
The UW-IT DEI Community of Practice expects that our network activities, events, and associated online spaces are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion (or lack thereof). We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

Participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled at the discretion of the organizers.

You can find our full Code of Conduct here https://wiki.cac.washington.edu/display/DEICP/Code+of+Conduct. 

We look forward to seeing you for this important discussion!

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