We have been working hard over the past few years to build our capacity to create authentic communications about IslandWood’s work, our programs, and our need for fundraising that are founded in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion principles.
We feel that our current work has come very far from our past mistakes of tokenizing, over-representing people of color, and perpetuating negative stereotypes and saviorism. That said, we realize that bias is real and often you can’t see what you can’t see.
It is one of our fiscal year 2023 goals to have an external audit of our communications done with a particular lens for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.