RACIAL HEALING CIRCLE

On May 26, 2023 faculty and employees at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) participated in the EMERGE Intellectual Justice Institute’s Racial Healing Circle. The goals of this professional development pathway are: to increase student and employee sense of belonging across campus; to foster meaningful relationships between employees and students; and to increase the amount of community educators who complete at least five hours of professional development (PD) rooted in equity, diversity, and inclusion and antiracial bias training.

In response to the growing misinformation and opposition to cultural diversity, equity and inclusion PD opportunities in education and professional development nationwide, administrators took proactive steps to raise awareness about the practical use-value raceconsciousness serves in professional and academic settings. EMERGE, Los Angeles provided a PD pathway for CSUN employees beginning with Racial Healing Circles What follows are the results from 22 m the EMERGE Inclusion: Self-