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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)


LWV Wichita-Metro DEI Policy

 

LWV Wichita-Metro is an organization fully committed to modeling diversity, equity, and inclusion in principle and practice. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to the organization’s current and future success in engaging all individuals, households, communities, and policy makers in creating a more perfect democracy. LWV strives for all members to feel valued and respected and their voices are valued and heard.


LWV Wichita-Metro acknowledges and respects the fundamental value and dignity of all individuals. There shall be no barriers to full participation in this organization on the basis of gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, race, native or indigenous origin, age, generation, sexual orientation, culture, religion, belief system, marital status, parental status, socioeconomic status, language, accent, ability, mental health, educational level or background, geography, nationality, work style, work experience, job role function, thinking style, personality type, physical appearance, political perspective or affiliation and/or any other characteristic that can be identified as recognizing or illustrating diversity. 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Reading List

 

The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee has developed a reading list for members interested in continued learning and appreciation of DEI issues. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) committee created a short video to announce the list. Aleris Charleman introduces the list and co-chair Joan Warren shares her take on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 nonfiction book which is on the list below.


This list was compiled based on critic reviews and other online booklists. Although it contains a variety of diverse groups and topics, it is not intended to convey every experience or issue related to this extensive subject matter.

  1. How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, 2019
  2. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson, 2016
  3. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coats, 2015
  4. The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson, 2011
  5. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, 2019
  6. Waking Up White, Debby Irving, 2014
  7. Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration, Alfredo Corchado, 2018
  8. Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer, Lee Airton, Ph.D, 2019
  9. Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us, C.N. Lester, 2017
  10. The Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance, 2016 (movie adaptation available on Netflix)
  11. Laughing at My Nightmare, Shane Berghoff, 2014 (This book contains profane language some may find offensive, but portrays the lived-experience of the author, a twenty-something young adult with Spinal Muscular Atrophy)
  12. Haben: The Deaf-Blind Woman who Conquered Harvard Law, Haben Girma, 2019
  13. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong, 2021