Strengthen your DEI initiatives with essential resources designed to help defend, sustain, and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts
Across the country, we are witnessing a well-coordinated effort to dismantle decades of hard-won progress. Through restrictive policies, corporate backpedaling, funding threats, and legal challenges, the anti-DEI movement is working to dismantle the structures that make equity, justice and belonging possible for all of us. These attacks are not just about diversity initiatives—they're part of a broader strategy to entrench exclusion and limit opportunity.
Equity Forward provides space for learning, strategy, and action to equip organizations with the tools, knowledge, and community to stay grounded and resist the forces trying to rollback progress.
This resource counters five of the most persistent myths used to undermine Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, including:
Lie 1: DEI is "Reverse Discrimination"
Lie 2: DEI Only Benefits Black People
Lie 3: DEI Initiatives Are No Longer Needed
Lie 4: DEI Promotes Anti-White Sentiment
Lie 5: "Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence" (MEI) Can Replace DEI
This historical timeline traces the evolution of DEI efforts from the 1940s to the present, linking legal mandates, corporate strategies, and social movements
This issue brief offers guidance on how organizations can sustain their racial equity commitments despite legislative and political opposition.
This glossary provides critical definitions to contextualize the anti-DEI movement, exposing longstanding tactics repurposed to undermine equity efforts today.
Executive Orders Affecting Charitable Nonprofits (PDF) | National Council of Nonprofits
DEI Litigation Tracker | Advancing DEI Initiative | Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
DEI Legislation Tracker | The Chronicle of Higher Education
Black Consumer Advisory | NAACP
40-Day Target Fast | TargetFast.org
DEI Watch | Tracking Corporate Accountability
Federal Court Injunction on DEI Executive Orders | Shipman and Goodwin
Racial Equity Legal Guidance | Othering and Belonging Institute
Multi-State Guidance on DEIA Employment Initiatives | 16 State Attorneys General
Judy Lubin
Dr. Judy is an applied sociologist, racial equity changemaker, yoga and mindfulness practitioner, author, auntie, bestie and beach lover. Judy’s elemental nature is water, and with her she brings calming, reflective energy to hold space for deep listening, inner work and transformative dialogue.
The curator of the Embodied Justice program, she hosts the accompanying podcast and co-facilitates events and dialogues focused on the collective healing and sustainability of Black changemakers.
At CURE, Dr. Judy has built transformative racial equity frameworks and change management processes that have impacted thousands of lives. She began her career focused on health disparities, recognizing that stress from societal racism can become embodied and manifested through “weathering” that prematurely ages the body and shortens the lifespan of racially marginalized communities.
She is unapologetically committed to centering Black people and the communities that have inspired her life’s work. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, she grew up in South Florida surrounded by music, her grandmother’s herbal garden, and the struggle to make it in a country that saw her family as outsiders.
In 2022, after experiencing multiple health emergencies coupled with burnout from the intensity of the “racial reckoning” that increased demand for CURE’s racial equity services, Judy began a process of listening to the wisdom of her body, healing old trauma wounds, and reclaiming rest and her love of mind-body healing. During this time she explored somatics, indigenous and and ancestral healing practices and earned certifications in multiple healing modalities including yoga and energy medicine.
Emerging from a place of rest and listening to what her soul wanted to share, she now weaves mindfulness, body-awareness and spiritual activism to support changemakers and organizations to regenerate their leadership and give to the world from a place of ease and wholeness.
Long committed to promoting women’s health and wellness, she is the author of The Heart of Living Well: Six Principles for a Life of Health, Beauty and Balance.
Find Judy on instagram or linkedin at @drjudylubin, where she (occasionally) shares posts celebrating Black joy, healing and well-being.
Shawn J. Moore
Residing at the intersection of leadership and mindfulness, Shawn creates sacred spaces for stillness and self-inquiry to help social impact leaders align their strengths, intention, and impact. Through his integrative approach, he holds transformative containers for self-renewal, personal discovery, and capacity-building that ease clients on their journey towards peace, clarity, and freedom.
Shawn is committed to empower changemakers to become embodied leaders – unified in mind, body, and heart – with the tools to mindfully pause, reconnect to their inner knowing, make strengths-driven decisions, and lead the change they believe the world needs.
Reckoning with his own contemplation of burnout, purpose, and alignment, Shawn transitioned out of his role as Associate Dean of Student Life & Leadership at Morehouse College in the fall of 2021 to focus more on mindfulness and stillness-based training programs and workshops.
While leadership resonates with him deeply, it is his personal and spiritual practices that allows him to continue to show up for himself and others. He is a yoga teacher (E-RYT® 200, RYT® 500, YACEP®), sound and reiki practitioner, meditation teacher, Yoga Nidra facilitator, and Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, all focused through a Buddhist lens and 17 years of personal practice. He has contributed workshops, practices, and educational opportunities for celebrities like Questlove and Dyllón Burnside, and various yoga studios and colleges, Yoga International, Omstars, Melanin Moves Project, the Human Rights Campaign, Spotify and Lululemon. He currently serves as the Facilitation and Community Manager for BEAM (Black Emotional & Mental Health Collective).
Shawn hosts a podcast called The Mindful Rebel® Podcast that creates a platform to continually explore this unique intersection of leadership and mindfulness. Find him on instagram @shawnj_moore
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