"We sought REI’s training because we feel our team needs to be leaders in their understanding of issues of race and ethnicity in the U.S. … the Groundwater training was one of the most fact-based and therefore compelling overviews of data that would impact our understanding. The Groundwater training will have very long-term influence on our thinking."
"It was deeply moving. To the point where I’m a 51-year-old Black woman and I had a conversation with two 50+ white men afterward that were meaningful. We can have conversations that don’t get emotional and think with the front of our brain and not the back."
"Completing Phase I of the Racial Equity Institute was nothing short of life changing for me. In addition to radically reorienting the way I view myself, others, and the problem of race, REI gave me a competent vocabulary for understanding and articulating the realities of race in our nation."