Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Spiders work to support a more equitable and inclusive community at nonprofits across Richmond. Learn more about our community relationships, then click the link to explore current opportunities with each organization.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion organizations are also in need of one-time volunteers, and these opportunities are posted as they become available.

 

Community Relationships & Opportunities

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Additional Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities
Student and Staff Liaisons
For more information about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion opportunities, contact:

Emilia Hodal, ehodal@richmond.edu

Campus Connections

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  • Student Center for Equity and Inclusion

    The Student Center for Equity and Inclusion strives to remove barriers and contribute to the community practice of belonging for University of Richmond students, in doing so we cultivate inclusive communities and empower students to be affirmed in their identities and the ways they intersect. 

  • Office for Institutional Equity & Inclusion
    Supports and aligns diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) efforts for our entire campus community by providing resources, ongoing education, consultation, and signature programs. 
  • Race & Racism at the University of the Richmond 
    The Race & Racism at the University of the Richmond is an interdisciplinary, community-based project providing online access to selected archival resources housed at Virginia Baptist Historical Society, Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of Richmond, and The Collegian Newspaper Archive. This site is home to those class collections, exhibits, podcasts, and resources.  
  • Unpacking the Census
    Unpacking the Census, a partnership between the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities and the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, School of Professional & Continuing Studies, and Spatial Analysis Lab, examines structural inequality through census research.

Relevant Courses

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  • LDST 317-01 Reimagining Richmond: History, Power and Politics in the Former Capital of the Confederacy

    This course focuses on Richmond, Virginia’s political history from Reconstruction to twilight of the 20th century.More specifically, we will use politics as a vehicle to interrogate how Richmonders organized strategies to meet economic, political, and social challenges following the Civil War and how movements for civil rights transformed local power relationships. Broadly, this course examines the ways historical actors transformed America’s cities over the last century and how national/state/local policies affected local people’s lives. To this end, we will study Southern labor relations, the rise and fall of Jim Crow segregation, the American civil rights movement, and the long arc of 20th century urban and racial history.

  • ANTH 329 Anthropology of Race
    Examines, through an anthropological lens, cultural constructions of race, by comparing racial constructs and designations in the United States with those in other societies, and by considering theories of race intersect with public policy, the popular imagination, and individual experiences. 
  • PLSC 346 Politics of Cultural Pluralism
    Comparative examination of politicization of race, ethnicity, religion, and caste in contemporary world.