Full 21 Day Equity Challenge

This 21-Day Social and Equity Challenge has been inspired by Dr. Eddie J. Moore, Jr., Director of the Privilege Institute and creator of the 21 Day Challenge. Dr. Moore designed the challenge to not only help people better understand the issues surrounding equity and inclusion, but to do so in a way that would build a long-lasting habit of learning by stretching it over 21 days.

For this version of the 21 -Day Challenge, we worked with local experts Bea Kim of Bea Kim Coaching and Dr. Grace A. Chen , PhD to curate this challenge for the San Carlos Community. Each day's learning on 4 grounding principles:

  1. Balance: keeping things simple without losing nuance, balancing BIPOC (Black, Indigeneous, People Of Color) pain and inequity with BIPOC joy and accomplishments

  2. Engagement & Action: keeping learners engaged and encouraging action in the process for the challenge and beyond

  3. Learning: keeping the current breadth of topics while encouraging and naming the need for depth of learning

  4. Localization: when possible, providing geographically local context to the learning topic

How this challenge is structured

  • The first 5 days are dedicated to individual introspection and self-reflection through the lens of bias, privilege, intersectionality, and more

  • Days 6 to 16 topics then broaden to contextualize the institutional and systemic factors of racism and other marginalization of peoples. The reflection questions still focus on you, the individual, and how you operate within the broader context.

  • Days 18 to 21 then brings the topics back to you, the individual, in taking action and moving forward beyond the challenge.