Anti-racism spaces meet monthly and are open to all HESA students, instructors, staff, and students who are taking HESA courses.
There are three goals for the HESA anti-racism spaces:
- Build a coalition and sustainable community within HESA committed to anti-racism
- Provide racial identity solidarity, support, and learning grounded in curricula
- Transform HESA program, UVM, and broader society through anti-racism commitments
Learn more about the affinity spaces:
BIPOC affinity space
A place for BIPOC students to be in community, to center joy and healing, and to develop solidarity and shared experiences in HESA.
Space for interrogating whiteness
A place for white students to interrogate and process white identity that centers education.
HESA coalition building space
A place for all students to build coalitions for anti-racism and continue the work of the Anti-Racism Working Group.
Facilitation
Every year, we hire HESA student facilitators for anti-racism spaces. BIPOC affinity space facilitators are paid $750 for fall and spring semester, and facilitators of the space for interrogating whiteness are paid $500 for fall and spring semester. All facilitators co-facilitate the HESA coalition building space together.
Participants are invited to join whichever space(s) align with their own racial identity. Multiracial/biracial participants are invited to connect with Jay Garvey for support and community in determining which space(s) to join.
Anti-Racism Instructor Guide
In Summer 2021, the HESA Anti-Racism Working Group was established in an effort to create a more anti-racist classroom experience. The Instructor Guide was created by the Working Group and is one component of a larger and on-going effort to actualize HESA’s mission and core values of social justice. The Instructor Guide is only intended to be a guiding framework for a philosophical, pedagogical, and preparatory approach rooted in anti-racist teaching practices and a co-generative learning process.