Racial Equity Commitment

Our Commitment

to Racial Equity

In June 2020, PEWL established the unit’s Racial Equity

Committee. Initially, the Committee was formed in response to the publicized incidents of police brutality across the country and the desire to bring PEWL employees together. The Committee has met weekly since, discussing ways to improve and enrich the unit’s collective work environment. We see this Committee as an opportunity to enact change in order to improve PEWL’s approach to our work, and the implementation of that approach.

The mission of PEWL’s Racial Equity Committee is to cultivate a culture where diversity, racial equity and inclusion are reflected and implemented in our policy, procedures, and practice. We are starting this crucial work by prioritizing five areas of focus for this coming year and are in the process of developing action-oriented goals for each: education, HR recruitment, workplace culture, professional development, and partnerships. The committee members are Je’nia Brown (Senior Program Manager), Rebecca Brown Cesarani (Senior Program Director), Edwina Nuñez-Gordon (Program Director), Clarke Griffith (Program Director), Dorothea Nixon (Program Director), Amy Perez (Executive Director), Dawn Picken (Senior Program Director), Tanja Carter-Searls (Program Director), Omari Williams (Facilitator), Elizabeth Whitman (Recruiter).