Dialogues on Race & Equity

Introduction

Addressing racial equity and reducing disparities requires Arlingtonians across the County to share their perspectives. Through these shared perspectives and small interactive virtual conversations, individual residents, community groups, and leaders have an opportunity to participate in facilitated dialogue with each other to learn about and directly address racial equity issues in Arlington County.

The Dialogues on Race and Equity (DRE) are part of the County’s broader commitment to racial equity and follows the County Board’s 2019 equity resolution.

DRE will include a series of virtual community conversations with individuals, local faith groups, civic organizations, and community leaders, to learn about and address the ways in which Arlington can be a more equitable and inclusive place for all residents and businesses.

Share Your Perspectives

Everyone has different experiences, backgrounds, insights, opinions, and beliefs about race and equity.

We invite Arlingtonians across the County to share their views by participating in a short assessment. The questionnaire’s responses will help our community understand potential areas of opportunities for advancing race and equity in our community.

Complete the Questionnaire

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Help Build Dialogue

Addressing race and equity are large societal issues that require all of us — residents, government, businesses, nonprofits, faith partners, and community organizations — to come together to identify gaps and opportunities for change.

We’re proud to partner with Challenging Racism to facilitate these conversations — learn and explore together. We’ll not only discuss where are right now as a County and community but also, more importantly, where we are going. The greater the participation, the greater the chance we have in making the most impactful change in our community and beyond.

Over the next 60 days we will have three different types of virtual dialogues:

DRE in Your Community

Sign up for a DRE in Your Community session. These small, interactive virtual conversations offer individual residents an opportunity to participate in facilitated conversations with neighbors to learn and engage on racial tensions and concerns in Arlington County.

The next sessions is on Wed. Dec. 9, @ 6 PM

DRE Together

Arlington civic associations, nonprofits, faith partners, and businesses are invited to join as DRE Together Partners. As a DRE Together Partner you will:

Participate in 3-hour DRE Together facilitation training
Host at least two 2-hour interactive conversations within your own organization
Share key emerging themes from your interactive conversations

Additionally, DRE Together Partners receive both facilitation and participant discussion guides.

Who’s already a DRE Together Partner?

DRE Together Partner Toolkit

Thank you, DRE Together Partners for helping us build a more equitable Arlington County! Below you will find a many tools that you can use to help promote conversations on race and equity in your community. Please feel free to share with your network of colleagues, clients, family and friends!

Guides

Posters and Flyers

Logos

Paper Assessments

Sample Language

Sample Content for Emails and Social Media

DRE in your Neighborhood (Coming Soon)

We are neighbors, family, and friends. And the conversations we’re having are important. Currently, we’re developing a toolkit to make it easier for residents to have their own conversations about race and equity in their homes or among friends and family.