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Darin Conley-Buchsieb

HR Director & Head of DE+I

San Francisco Ballet

Silently-Loud

How Our Inaction Is Keeping Us From Meaningful Change in Arts Culture

History of U.S. Government & Race

Explicit Racism Implicit Racism Today

Government explicitly creates and maintains racial inequity. Discrimination illegal, but “race-neutral” policies and practices perpetuateinequity. Efforts to introduce proactive policies, practices, and procedures that advance racial equity.

1. Race is a human construct and is not biologically determined.

• 2. Policy drives the social construction of race and has contributed to

changing ideas and definitions of race over time to keep one group in power– White people.

• 3. We did not choose this system but we have a responsibility to

address it by speaking truth to power

Racial Inequity in the U.S.

Jobs Education Criminal Justice Housing Environment Health Arts Lifespan Civics Transit Food Parks

Racial Equity Gaps in S.F.

• White: $104,300
• Asian: $72,000
• Pacific Islander $35,313
• Samoan $12,483
• Tongans $53,281
• Native Hawaiians $71,534
• Latino: $67,00
• Black $29,500

Racial Equity Gaps in the Arts.

Source: Antonio C. Cuyler, An Exploratory Study of Demographic Diversity in the Arts Management Workforce, Grantmakers in the Arts (Fall 2015) Source: Mariët Westermann, Roger Schonfeld, and Liam Sweeney, Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey 2018, Mellon Foundation (January 2019)

In Museums: In Arts Management:

Reducing Bias…for Some

In the few years after they were implemented in 1970, screened auditions accounted for up to a 46% increase in the percentage of women in symphony orchestras across America.

Identical resumes with the

• nly difference being White-

sounding names received 50% more callbacks than resumes with African- American- sounding names.

Where Does Bias Show Up In Our Work?

• Funding/Budgeting
• Employment
• Experts & vendors
• Patron and Staff Experience
• Story

Telling- Whose story we tell and why

Stories connect us to each

• ther

Our SF Ballet Internal Story

You can reach people with your art better when you get to know the people

Be an ally

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Additional Resources:

Arts and Culture

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