Allyship Learning Resources

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Overview

Objectives

Increase awareness of biases and behaviors that contribute to inequities in academia
Create a community of allyship learners to actively dismantle systemic racism

What to Expect

Anti-racist/allyship learning resources related to monthly themes
Monthly events to discuss resources and relevant symposia
Building an open and supportive community with UCSF

Updates for the program:

Each month we will share allyship learning resources and have a group discussion meeting around a new theme.
Shorter seasons (4 months)
2 seasons/academic year (Fall season Sept-Dec / Winter season Feb-May)
Sign up and attend a full season (4 group discussions) to be part of an official “ImmunoDiverse Allyship Learner” cohort listed on our website.
Attend multiple seasons to get to the next level in your allyship learning
Faculty are particularly encouraged to join and invite other faculty members.

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Monthly Program Themes

October - What is Systemic Racism?

Friday, 10/29/21 130-3 pm	Group Discussion via Zoom

Resources:
Video	The racial politics of time (Brittany Cooper, TedTalk)
Article	How America's Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew by Plunder
Podcast	In the Thick: The Legacy of Redlining (Maria & Julio, Apple podcast)

September - Building community & defining allyship

Friday, 9/24/2021 1-3 pm	Community Circle hosted by UCSF Restorative Justice Practices (RJP)

Resources:
Video	How to be an Ally in the remote workplace - Linda Briana Epler
Article	Learning how to be an ally for people from diverse groups and backgrounds - Community Toolbox
Podcast	The Racial Reckoning That Wasn't - Code Switch

June - What is Allyship?

Thursday, 6/10/2021 11-1230 pm	Amplified: Race and Reality in STEM Register here. Topic: Enacting Change through Cultivation of Student Activism and Engagement with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion D'Anne Duncan will discuss the critical importance and value of centering graduate student advocacy and activism to create institutional change by fostering relationships between graduate students, faculty, and campus administrators. Learn strategies to engage graduate students in leadership and diversity, equity and inclusion values and principles to enact sustainable change in scientific and academic communities
Friday, 6/25/2021 330-5 pm	Allyship Group Discussion To get zoom details, please email immunodiverse@ucsf.edu

Resources:
Video	5 Tips For Being An Ally - Chesca Leigh
Article	Be A Better Ally
Podcast	Why Now, White People? (Code Switch)

May - What are Systemic Barriers in Academia?

Thursday, 5/20/2021 130-3 pm	Allyship Group Discussion To get zoom details, please email immunodiverse@ucsf.edu

Resources:
Video	Addressing Systemic Barriers in Academia: Pathways to Action and Change (SciPolNetwork Media)
Optional Video	Dismantling Barriers That Hold Black STEM Faculty Back (Gladstone)
Text	The Rothfels Lab stands against racism everywhere
Podcast	The Leaky Pipeline (Rad Scientist)

April Racism in Science and Medicine

Events:	All times in PST
Friday,4/9/2021 1-515 pm	ImmunoDiverse Colloquia To attend, please register here.
Wednesday, 4/14/2021 8-1130 am	Racism and Race: The Use of Race in Medicine and Implications for Healthy Equity Event Series Session 3: Continuing Case Studies: Race, Racial Categorization, and Racism in Medicine Today To RSVP, please use this eventbrite link
Friday, 4/23/2021 1-230 pm	Allyship Group Discussion

Resources:
Video	Dorothy Roberts: The problem with race-based medicine \| TED Talk
Text	Hidden in Plain Sight -- Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms (Darshali A. Vyas, Leo G. Eisenstein, David S. Jones)
Podcast	A Shot In The Dark (NPR Code Switch - Alyssa Jeong Perry, Gene Demby, Shereen Marisol Meraji)

March - What is Intersectionality and why is it important?

Events:
Thursday, 3/25/2021 1-230 pm	Allyship Learning Group Discussion To view recording, please reach out to ImmunoDiverse@ucsf.edu
Thursday, 4/8/2021 4-5 pm	BCMM: Anti-Racism Book Club Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Resources:
Video	The Urgency of Intersectionality (Kimberle Crenshaw)
Text	Broadening the Science of Broadening Participation In STEM Through Critical Mixed Methodologies and Intersectionality Frameworks (Heather Metcalf, Dorian Russell, Catherine Hill)
Podcast	They Don't Say Our Names Enough (NPR Code Switch - Shereen Marisol Meraji + Gene Demby)

February - What is Systemic Racism?

Events:
Thursday, 2/18/2021 10-12 pm	Graduate Faculty Development Program Seminar: "Three Truths & Three Tries: Facing & Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo & Macro Levels" Speaker: Carlos Hoyt
Friday, 2/26/2021 1-230 pm	ImmunoDiverse Allyship Learning Group Discussion: Systemic Racism To view recording, please email: immunodiverse@ucsf.edu

Resources:
Video	13th (Documentary - Ava DuVernay)
Text	Systemic Inequiality and Economic Opportunity (Center for American Progress - Danyelle Solomon, Connor Maxwell, and Abril Castro)
Podcast	Historian Says Don't 'Sanitize' How Our Government Created Ghettos (NPR - Interview of Richard Rothstein)

January - Building Community - Learning anti-racism and allyship as a community

Events:
Tuesday, 1/26/2021 4-530 pm	Community Circle
Wednesday, 2/3/2021 11-1230 pm	Community Circle

Resources:
Video	How to be an Antiracist (Dr. Ibram X. Kendi Interview)
Text	What Black scientists want from colleagues and their institutions (Nature, Virginia Gewin)
Text	The New Reconstruction (The Atlantic, Adam Serwer)
Podcast	Bonus Episode: 'Not Just Another Protest' (Codeswitch)

Events

Friday, 10/22/2021 130-3m	Allyship Group Discussion: Zoom
Friday, 9/24/2021 1-3 pm	Community Circle hosted by UCSF Restorative Justice Practices (RJp)
Friday, 6/25/2021 330-5 pm	Allyship Group Discussion To get zoom details, please email immunodiverse@ucsf.edu
Thursday, 6/10/2021 11-1230 pm	Amplified: Race and Reality in STEM Register here. Topic: Enacting Change through Cultivation of Student Activism and Engagement with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion D'Anne Duncan will discuss the critical importance and value of centering graduate student advocacy and activism to create institutional change by fostering relationships between graduate students, faculty, and campus administrators. Learn strategies to engage graduate students in leadership and diversity, equity and inclusion values and principles to enact sustainable change in scientific and academic communities
Thursday, 5/20/2021 130-3 pm	Allyship Learning Group Discussion
Friday, 4/23/2021 1-230 pm	Allyship Learning Group Discussion
Wednesday, 4/14/2021 8-1130 am	Racism and Race: The Use of Race in Medicine and Implications for Healthy Equity Event Series Session 3: Continuing Case Studies: Race, Racial Categorization, and Racism in Medicine Today
Friday,4/9/2021 1-515 pm	ImmunoDiverse Colloquia To view our recording, please visit here.
Thursday, 4/8/2021 4-5 pm	BCMM: Anti-Racism Book Club Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Thursday, 3/25/2021 1-230 pm	Allyship Learning Group Discussion
Friday, 2/26/2021 1-230 pm	ImmunoDiverse Allyship Learning Group Discussion: Systemic Racism
Thursday, 2/18/2021 10-12 pm	Graduate Faculty Development Program Seminar: "Three Truths & Three Tries: Facing & Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo & Macro Levels" Speaker: Carlos Hoyt
Wednesday, 2/3/21 11-1230 pm	Community Circle
Tuesday, 1/26/21 4-530 pm	Community Circle