Coming Together for Racial Understanding
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Collapse ▲It all started in 2016, when a Rapid Response Team of national Extension professionals came together to address concerns about civil unrest stemming from police shootings, protest, and tragedies. Their observation was that these periods of unrest had led to divisiveness in many communities throughout the country. In April 2017 the team delivered a report to the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy promoting the value of civil discourse in our nation as well as the capacity of the Cooperative Extension Service to respond rapidly to this timely issue. Within six months, a Curriculum Team (including N.C. A&T State University’s Dr. Michelle Eley) assembled to create Coming Together for Racial Understanding, a program designed to build capacity within the Cooperative Extension Service system to help communities engage in dialogues around racial issues.
Four members of North Carolina Cooperative Extension, Dr. Susan Jakes, Dr. Michelle Eley, Cintia Aguilar, and Kittrane Sanders, all CRD agents, attended the pilot Coming Together Train-the-Trainer Workshop in August 2018, along with representatives from twenty other states. In 2019 they piloted two train the trainer workshops in North Carolina, which were attended by over 50 Extension personnel.
It’s now 2020. As demonstrations continue across the country in reaction to George Floyd’s death and as an expression of frustration over longstanding issues, our nation is still grappling with an appropriate response. But N.C. Cooperative Extension is not. Pushed by several hundred agents to deliver the Coming Together for Racial Understanding training now, the NC Team has assembled twenty of the 2019 pilot workshop participants to facilitate nine study circles within the statewide Extension community. These study circles, each comprised of 13 participants, will meet virtually on a regular basis beginning in August 2020 to discuss the differing points of view on racism in our country. Each study circle will work through five sessions of 90 minutes each, culminating in a sixth and final session devoted to action planning. The goal of these study circles is to build capacity within Extension to engage in dialogue around racial issues and to bring the Coming Together for Racial Understanding programming to their own communities.
Eley is “happy to announce that all the slots for nine circles have been filled,” and hints that more study circles may be formed in 2021 in response to demand.
