Ours To Do

Dear Statera Community,

We have work to do. Period. And we are honored to learn and pivot in community with you. As we enter our final month of the 2020 class of Statera Mentorship we continue to amplify voices from the Statera community and beyond, offer resources and avenues for connection, and advocate for holistic creative environments where people -- indeed more women, can show up whole. Additionally, the Statera team is riveted to practicing this work within, beginning with continued, generative dialogue and deep listening to honor the experiences and needs of our internal and community-based Statera team.

In the midst of the unanticipated and collective halt of our entire sector due to COVID-19, we are intentionally making space for immediate, individual and collective deep learning and change. Important work continues to ensure that Statera emerges in wholeness and equity at all levels of operation. 

As such, we have initiated the following plan of action:  

30 days: Listening and Learning
Statera initiates thoughtful pause; individual EDI training and learning; research for team EDI training; internal listening tour continues 

60 days: Expanded Listening, Learning, and Identification
Statera expands the listening tour to community-based leaders and stakeholders; Statera begins team and Board EDI training and learning

90 days: Identification, Strategy & Planning
Identify EDI training resources for Statera community leaders; engage a compensated Community Task Force

These are just some of the points of our highest curiosity and interest: 

• Unearth and address individual and team biases

• Learn and take direct action to make Statera an anti-racist environment

• Prepare all Statera team, Board, and volunteers with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion training

• Interrogate Statera’s reliance on non-profit volunteerism 

• Identify ways to enact clear boundaries and scope of work, given and received by passionate and creative volunteers 

• Proceed in right-relationship with one another and with the Statera community at large 

We are committed to being an organization where equity and support exist at the core of our own operations, toward a future of true balance in the arts sector at large. 

In Statera, (balance) 

Melinda Pfundstein
Co-founding Executive Director

Sabrina Cofield
Development Director

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The above message was originally shared in our August newsletter.