1) Find your brothers & sisters and help build a diverse community with them.
2) Rethink the false narratives of immigrants who are hurting from violence and starvation.
3) Get outside of your comfort zone. Connect with others who you don’t know and who don’t look like you.
4) Get to know other cultures.
5) Do something, big or small, for advancing DEI. Our community will be better for it.
6) Listen to the voice that you have and get involved.
7) We are better together. It takes many of us to advance positive change.
8) Uplift humanity.
9) Support ending poverty and support social justice.
10) Get comfortable being uncomfortable. Sit next to someone you don’t know.
11) Focus on impact over transaction.
12) Study history of those who have been marginalized.
13) Draw closer with what you don’t understand.
14) Be someone that is not afraid to speak up.
Start with even just one of these things. Small steps in the right direction add up to make a big difference. As you take next steps on your personal and organization’s DEI journey, be sure to share your story and uplift others through the new statewide hashtag: #DEIowa.