Workplace Inclusion and Belonging (WIB)

Belonging and Inclusion. The meaning embedded in these words are symbols of how we connect as a community. Each of us find we are part of a variety of communities with varying levels of connection. During my recent vacation, I spent time coming into connection and community with my self.

A recent NYT article joins a handful of other popular news outlets to highlight what they see as the failure of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion efforts. In this particular NYT Magazine article, The University of Michigan Doubled Down on D.E.I.

Devii Rao, San Benito County Director and Area Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor, requests your help.

Call for Nominations: UC ANR DEI Advisory Council The UC ANR Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Advisory Council is accepting nominations to fill open positions and invites passionate colleagues to join us in advancing DEI efforts across UC ANR.

As we navigate the last few months of 2024 the following opportunity to build deeper connections is available to our UC ANR community through the support of President Drake's system-wide funding for addressing bias and bigotry.

Being in education my whole career, August, the start of a new school year, makes me feel alive like a bee buzzing through a meadow of flowers. It is the excitement of opening my mind to new learning and new ways of thinking and doing. A time of possibilities and reflections.

Chris McDonald, Inland and Desert Natural Resources advisor, brought together 80 people from various federal, state, county, and university affiliations at the Pala Band of Mission Indian Administrative Building in Pala for the Southern California Tribal Partnerships Workshop.

Every day I feel pride in working for ANR. This organization continually inspires me with the work being done to achieve our vision of serving and supporting every Californian. As a community, we have shown pride through our commitment to the Principles of Community 2.0.

I love this time of year. The weather is the perfect blend of cold and warm and the gardens are abundant with flowers and possibilities. It is also a time of many celebrations.

This month's together@work blog brings you a special post exploring the background of the why, what, and hope in the LandBack movement in support of our tribal communities from Dr. Adina M. Merenlender and her co-contributor Beth Rose Middleton.

Reflecting on the inaugural EDI (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Summit, Creating Transformation, held from January 31 to February 1, 2024, I'm inspired by a profound sense of hope and renewed determination.

Photo by Saoimanu Sope, Staff Assembly Ambassador Our Inaugural EDI Summit has brought together over thirty ANR colleagues celebrating the work and wins, while also focusing on the challenges to continue creating transformation within our organization.

Passion. Insight. Community: These three words defined our experience at the inaugural UCOP EDI Conference on December 5.

We were thrilled to attend the 2023 Land-Grant Partners Summit [https://landgrantpartners.org/events/land-grant-partners-summit-october-12-13-2023] last week in Denver.

Creating and building space for all members of the ANR community is an important tenet for our organization. Strong strides have been made in building out policy and procedures to build out equity and inclusion.

July steeped us in some record high temperatures which led me to do some deep thinking in front of fans and out on the lakes with my kayak. Manzanita Lae Lassen National Forest I have been thinking and starting to research about the impact of curiosity in the workplace.

Celebrations abound in June: Graduations- Juneteenth- Pride Month - ANR postcard contest winners! For myself, I look forward to this time to reflect on an academic/fiscal year and the promise of a summer to dive deeper and set the pathways for creating more opportunities to grow.

Welcome to the TOGETHER@WORK Blog. This is Elizabeth, UC ANR's director of workplace inclusion and belonging.