{"id":544,"date":"2020-09-01T21:53:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T21:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/?p=544"},"modified":"2020-09-01T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T22:01:12","slug":"hows-the-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-work-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/2020\/09\/01\/hows-the-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-work-going\/","title":{"rendered":"How\u2019s the Diversity, Equity and  Inclusion work going?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s been three months since we <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/2020\/06\/04\/racial-justice-master-gardeners-biodiversity-in-the-garden-means-the-people-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first posted here with a call for diversity, equity and inclusion in the Master Gardener program<\/a>. Here is an update and what we\u2019ve being doing since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are approaching the work in three ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Ourselves: our own work.<\/strong> Looking at our own stories and history including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcZyhS1cm9c&amp;ab_channel=PortlandOEHR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">history of racism in Oregon<\/a> and the founding stories of land grant institutions. We are looking deep into our field of work including colonization even in the naming of plants. We are learning to acknowledge this has been happening for years and before our time. This work improves our critical consciousness so we\u2019re aware of inequities.<\/li><li><strong>How and who Master Gardeners serve in the community:<\/strong> We\u2019re asking questions like how do we as Master Gardeners serve our communities and neighbors? How far are we reaching into our communities, and who are we missing? Who needs gardening advice, support and education? What do we know and not know?<\/li><li><strong>Systemic within the Master Gardener program:<\/strong> What does it mean to be a Master Gardener and who is the training program designed for? What are the barriers to the program and how can we remove them?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To this end:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We\u2019ve convened a working group of Master Gardener coordinators from different parts of the state to participate in and lead this work;<\/li><li>I\u2019ve had a series of conversations about our work with coordinators across the state in every county where there\u2019s an active Master Gardener program, as well as with coordinators and program leaders in California and Minnesota;<\/li><li>25+ Master Gardener coordinators recently participated in a 3\u2013hour training on equitable leadership;<\/li><li>We are examining and planning ways to include diversity, equity and inclusion in training for all Master Gardener volunteers;<\/li><li>Enacting a series of feedback surveys for Master Gardener volunteers to ensure voices are heard. This includes surveys for feedback on our program\u2019s priorities and values, and upcoming trainings for 2021.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo with all of this we\u2019ll be done, right?\u201d&nbsp; I think about the best answer for this is in a gardening analogy. A few years back my partner asked me, clearly exhausted, \u201cAren\u2019t we done with the garden yet?\u201d As I stood there with eyes wide open, I pondered how I was going to break it to her. As gardeners we all know that a garden is never done. It\u2019s an ongoing journey of discovery, setbacks, and amazing results. And a lot of soil building. And so it is with doing the work of diversity, equity and inclusion. We\u2019re in it for the long haul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent podcasts you might enjoy listening to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cultivatingplace.com\/post\/botany-geography-history-power-at-the-heart-of-the-garden-jamaica-kincaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Botany, Geography, History &amp; Power: at the Heart of the Garden, Jamaica Kincaid<\/a> on Cultivating Place<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/programs\/robin-wall-kimmerer-the-intelligence-of-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Intelligence of Plants <\/a>(original airdate of 2016 but just as great today as it was then)&nbsp; on On Being with Krista Tippett<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/08\/25\/904284865\/make-farmers-black-again-african-americans-fight-discrimination-to-own-farmland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018Make Farmers Black Again\u2019: African Americans Fight Discrimination To Own Farmland<\/a> on NPR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2020\/07\/18\/891820233\/video-how-runnings-white-origins-led-to-the-dangers-of-running-while-black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Running\u2019s White Origins Led to the Dangers of \u2018Running While Black\u2019<\/a> (Yes, this is about running, but there are similar things to think about with gardening, and includes a connection to Oregon) on Code Switch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been three months since we first posted here with a call for diversity, equity and inclusion in the Master Gardener program. Here is an update and what we\u2019ve being doing since then. We are approaching the work in three ways: Ourselves: our own work. Looking at our own stories and history including the history &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/2020\/09\/01\/hows-the-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-work-going\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How\u2019s the Diversity, Equity and  Inclusion work going?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10670,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1238800,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2972\/files\/2020\/09\/iStock-1190922579-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}