Mission Statement
The Office of Research and Policy for Equity serves as an innovative consortium that fosters personal, cultural, and systemic transformation. We aim to institutionalize equity and dismantle systems of oppression in education.
Past and Present Equity Partners include:
School Districts
- California Postsecondary Education Commission
- Davis Joint Unified School District
- Elk Grove Unified School District
- Glendale Unified School District
- Oakland Unified School District
- Sacramento City Unified School District
- San Juan Unified School District
- Sonoma County Office of Education
- Stockton Unified School District
- Twin Rivers Unified School District
- Vallejo Unified School District
- Woodland Joint Unified School District
- Yolo County Office of Education
Foundations
- Sierra Health Foundation
- Stuart Foundation
- The California Endowment
- The Wellness Foundation
- UMOJA Community Foundation
Corporate and Community Partners
- AT&T
- Youth Speaks, Inc.
Universities
- UCLA
- UC Merced
- UC Riverside
- UCSF
- University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
In the Media
National Media Attention for the report, The Black Sonrise: Oakland Unified School District’s Commitment to Address and Eliminate Institutionalized Racism:
- New York Times, Courses in Manhood for African-American Boys by Patricia Brown.
- Huffington Post, Live Webcam with Marc Lamont Hill
- Essence Magazine
- Huffington Post Article
- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- Atlantic Black Star
- 2015 Featured commentator on Rachel Dolezal case for HLN
- 2015 SAYS featured on KTVN in Reno
- 2014 “They Didn’t Like School. School Didn’t Like Them, Until Something Incredible Stepped Right In.” Upworthy feature on SAYS.