We provide a suite of highly customizable services that are highly tailored to address your needs, challenges or questions. Our services are grounded in state-of-the-art research, utilizing current best methods, frameworks and approaches for achieving equity.
The Equity Paradigm is a diversity, equity and inclusion firm based in Durham, North Carolina that is dedicated to evolving the ways in which nonprofits and social change organizations understand and approach their work. We employ an equity lens to examine mindsets, organizational culture, operations, and norms. We work collaboratively to empower and equip individuals and organizations with the tools, approaches and mindsets to identify and interrupt inequity as it occurs.
We design multi-session series and standalone sessions that dive deep into the systemic, institutional, interpersonal and individual levels of power, privilege and oppression, and provide hands-on application, practice and reflection to fuel continuous learning.
We work one-on-one with nonprofits and social impact organizations to help leaders and hiring managers think and operate with a robust understanding of their cultural identities, underlying assumptions and biases, and suspended judgments in order to make equitable decisions rooted in culturally competent frameworks.
We have designed and led racial equity and diversity & inclusion workshops and programs for hundreds of leaders across the country. We proudly partner with public, private and charter schools, nonprofit organizations, community organizers, higher education institutions and social change organizations to advance equity.
Alexa facilitated an incredible workshop with a team of preschool teachers I work with. She is a dynamic, brilliant and thoughtful speaker/facilitator, who took time beforehand to pull together some statistics that were specific to early childhood education, and did an amazing job of helping us start an open dialogue about race at our school. I felt safe sharing my discomfort and nervousness about this huge and challenging subject in the space she created, and I hope to attend more workshops with her in the future.
This was by far the most comprehensive and educationally stimulating presentation on race in America I have ever heard.
Having been the "only one" or part of a smattering from childhood through most of a 28 year legal career, and as a sociology major in undergrad, I've spent a large part of my life unpacking the origins of racism. I want you to know that your outstanding and comprehensive workshop is the first clear explanation of the development of the racial fantasy that undergirds and sustains America.
Let's learn about the history and consequences of institutional, systemic racism and then let's end it. There's so much we don't know. We don't learn it in school. I appreciate Alexa and would sign up for a yearlong course with her, she's that good.
It was such an added educational and conversational blessing to have Alexa Broderick of Equity Paradigm work with us on the Durham Art Guild's "Painting our Privilege" event. She professionally and thoughtfully moved all participants through a very open, respectful, and growth-oriented conversation around issues of identity and equity in our community. While her knowledge and experience clearly goes far beyond this broader introductory level event, she was able to adapt to our event needs and did a fantastic job tying-in the privilege-based activity that we facilitated. I very much appreciated this event and am thankful to have collaborated with Equity Paradigm.
Alexa is an incredibly informative and engaging speaker, and she provided an excellent introduction to the history of American structural racism. In only 2 hours, she covered a vast amount of information. I experienced this afternoon as inspiring and a clarion call for action. Thank you!
Thank you again for putting on such a thoughtful, powerful, and much-needed exploration into what equity, diversity, and inclusiveness mean to each of us sitting in that room and also the broader board and organization. I know this will be only the first of many opportunities for us to be up front with ourselves and with our policies/culture/programs. As we move toward recruitment and as we continue to host events and engage in communications, I hope you will continue to lead us in ensuring we are putting the [equity] values into action. And when we aren't, we need to be up front with that and understand why and what we need to change.
Alexa was so engaging, and handled a difficult conversation of inequality without victimizing some people or blaming others. She spent a great deal of time introducing compelling statistics and consequences, and facilitated meaningful conversation. I would love for her to come present again at my organization!
Such a thought provoking and incredible session. Excited to continue the conversation!
Alexa's tone and delivery is exceptional; she makes challenging and complex content accessible and digestible without diminishing its weight.
Equity work is complex and challenging. We get a lot of questions from potential clients, and have included those most commonly asked below.
We primarily work with nonprofits and social impact organizations that are working to advance justice and equity through their mission, but are looking to do so with a stronger emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion. We also provide one-on-one coaching and ongoing development to individuals who are looking to continue their identity journey and evolve as diversity, equity and inclusion practitioners and facilitators.
Absolutely. As your strategic thought partners, we help define and establish your organization’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategy, including priorities, goals, and measurable outcomes. Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to improve or strengthen an existing strategy, we work with you hone in on your key priorities and identify actions and practices to bring them life.
Equity work is challenging. Working with us means willingly experiencing discomfort, challenging and deconstructing your norms, and learning to view yourself and your work in a powerful, new way. But with that discomfort comes immense growth and innumerable opportunities for learning. Consider us your accountability partners, your cheerleaders, and your allies in creating a more just, equitable and accessible society that works on behalf of each of its citizens’ best interests
Race is the reason why disparities look the same across systems. Without a nuanced understanding of race and racism, it is impossible to responsibly address any inequity you seek to understand and solve. At the same time, we all carry multiple, intersecting identities that deeply influence the ways in which we understand and experience the world around us. As such, we prioritize employing an intersectional analysis to inequities while focusing explicitly and intentionally on race.