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Beyond Diversity Training: Building Trust in Real Time
Diversity training starts the conversation, but trust is built in the follow-through. Here’s how small actions after training create real connection.
Micro Moments: The Art of Everyday Trust
Trust grows in small, everyday interactions. Every choice, pause, and conversation is an opportunity to strengthen connection and understanding.
The God I Know: Finding Faith in Each Other
Faith and trust grow through relationships. This reflection shows how connecting with each other can reveal the divine in everyday interactions.
Getting To We Books for 2026
These books for 2026 provide ideas and inspiration to help transform division into connection in everyday life and across communities.
Getting To We Insights
Me To We conversations for the world yet to be.
Beyond Diversity Training: Building Trust in Real Time
Diversity training starts the conversation, but trust is built in the follow-through. Here’s how small actions after training create real connection.
Read MoreSome of My Friends Are… Building Real Connection Across Difference
Understanding others requires more than intention. Here, we explore building authentic connections across racial and cultural differences.
Read MoreThe Power of Memory Work: Learning from the Germans
Memory work helps societies confront past injustices. Learn how Germany’s approach can inspire reflection, accountability, and growth in our own communities.
Read MoreLet’s Keep Talking About Racism: 10 Tips for How to Do That
Talking about racism is challenging, yet essential. These ten tips provide guidance for continuing conversations in productive, meaningful ways.
Read MoreRacism’s Groundhog Day
History repeats itself when it comes to racial inequity. This reflection explores the cycles of injustice and how we can break patterns through awareness and…
Read MoreNot a Racist? Then Let’s Be Better Antiracist
Being anti-racist is more than intention. Learn how to recognize behaviors, stay accountable, and act with empathy and equity in everyday life.
Read MoreYour Micro Moments
Just-in-time responses to your frequently-asked questions.
Micro Moments: The Art of Everyday Trust
Trust grows in small, everyday interactions. Every choice, pause, and conversation is an opportunity to strengthen connection and understanding.
Read MoreCan’t We Just Agree to Disagree?
Differences in opinion are natural, but stopping at disagreement can prevent growth. Here’s how to engage respectfully while learning from others.
Read MoreWhat Questions Can I Ask To Ensure My Organization is Dismantling Its Systemic Racism?
Addressing systemic racism starts with questions. Here are practical prompts for evaluating your organization’s policies, culture, and accountability.
Read MoreIs America a Racist Country?
America’s ideals may aspire to equality, but systemic racism persists. This piece examines the gap between values and lived experiences and what it means to…
Read MoreCan Blacks be Racist?
Racism is systemic, not limited to one group. Dr. Plummer explores power, privilege, and the ways anyone can uphold or challenge inequity.
Read MoreWhat does Equity mean in Diversity and Inclusion?
DEI efforts often include “equity” alongside diversity and inclusion. This piece explains why equity is essential and how it shapes meaningful change.
Read MoreWords Create Worlds
Me to We storytelling that amplify voices that create cultures of belonging and strengthen human connectivity.
Words Create Worlds: How Language Shapes Belonging
The language we use builds inclusion—or division. Learn how words shape belonging and influence how we relate to one another every day.
Read MoreGetting To We Books for 2026
These books for 2026 provide ideas and inspiration to help transform division into connection in everyday life and across communities.
Read MoreGetting To We Books for 2025
These books for 2025 provide ideas and inspiration to help transform division into connection in everyday life and across communities.
Read MoreGetting To We Books for 2024
Here are five books that inspire turning “us and them” into “we,” offering insights for how we live, work, serve, and relate to others.
Read MoreGetting To We Books for 2023
Summer reading can engage and inspire. These four books provide fresh perspectives, challenge assumptions, and encourage turning “us and them” into “we.”
Read MoreGetting To We Books for 2022
These eight books inspire us to turn “us and them” into “we.” They offer insight into inequity, history, and practical ways to create understanding.
Read MoreRace, Identity & Beyond
The God I Know: Finding Faith in Each Other
Faith and trust grow through relationships. This reflection shows how connecting with each other can reveal the divine in everyday interactions.
Read MoreLearning Multicultural Competencies Through DEIB Edutainment
The concept of edutainment, entertainment with an educational aspect, is not new. I am old enough to remember screaming in delight when “Miss Barbara” Plummer…
Read MoreThis Makes Me Feel Uncomfortable
And Other Distressing Emotions Associated with Learning about Race and Racial Identity Behind every discomfort, there’s learning… if we stay with the discomfort long enough….
Read MoreBuilding Social Trust Between Black and White Women
Do We Need a Form of Couples Therapy to Achieve Racial Equity? As a young psychologist facilitating couples therapy, I quickly learned that it was…
Read MoreWhy Socializing Across Racial Lines Matters
My friends cross racial lines and so parties I host are often racially mixed gatherings. The tone of these parties are not radically different from…
Read MoreCan We Be Friends? White Women and Women of Color in Conversation About Race
I am still a bit exasperated with Ellie McGinty. Ellie is a fictional character in The Daughters of Erietown, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Connie Schultz’s novel…
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