Anti-Racism Position Statement and Pledge
As an organization founded on dismantling oppressive, dehumanizing cultural narratives through empathy education, storytelling, and the power of childhood friendships, The Nora Project stands firmly in solidarity with the Black community in the fight for racial justice.
As we’ve watched the events of the last week unfold, borne witness to the exhaustion, the profound grief, and the urgent calls for examination of white privilege and the invisible structures perpetuating systemic racism, we realize that we have an opportunity, indeed, an obligation, to become better allies and advocates.
The Nora Project therefore pledges:
To improve our training and classroom materials on examining privilege and personal bias;
To explicitly tie our anti-ableist agenda to an anti-racist one;
To diversify our staff, consultancies, vendors, and board membership;
To use our modest platform to amplify BIPOC disabled activist voices; and
To listen, see, be open, have hard conversations, lead with empathy (especially when it hurts), and to change course when that’s what equity and justice require.
We will hold ourselves accountable to this pledge and we encourage you to do so, as well. In the names of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbury, Breonna Taylor, and too many more, we will do better, as we all must.
With love and solidarity and with hope for a better, kinder, more just future,
The Nora Project