Silently-Loud How Our Inaction Is Keeping Us From Meaningful Change - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Silently-Loud How Our Inaction Is Keeping Us From Meaningful Change in Arts Culture Darin Conley-Buchsieb HR Director & Head of DE+I San Francisco Ballet

History of U.S. Government & Race Explicit Racism Implicit Racism Today Government explicitly creates Discrimination illegal, but Efforts to introduce proactive and maintains racial inequity. “race-neutral” policies and policies, practices, and procedures practices perpetuateinequity. that advance racial equity.

Race is a human construct and is not biologically determined. 1. 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. Parks Jobs Education Arts Civics Housing Health Criminal Justice Environment Lifespan Food Transit

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. In Museums: In Arts Management: 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)

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 only difference being White- sounding names received 50% more callbacks than resumes with African- American- sounding names.

Where Does Bias Show Up In Our Work? • Story • Funding/Budgeting Telling- • Employment Whose story • Experts & vendors we tell and • Patron and Staff Experience why

Stories connect us to each other

Our SF Ballet Internal Story

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

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