Weaving social justice into everyday systems
Social justice is not a destination — it’s a collective, practical journey.
No matter where you are on this journey, Mangrove Roots is ready to guide you and your team with concrete applications of equity and racial justice principles.
SERVICES
Team training
Through interactive, community-based training, Rut helps you take abstract equity and racial justice concepts, and understand how to build them into concrete initiatives, programs, policies and practices for work culture and systemic change.
Not sure where to start? Rut begins by helping teams assess your internal systems, define the questions to ask about current policies and practices, and how each team member can integrate and implement principles of social justice in their own area of expertise, including:
Building compensation structures for pay equity
Aligning Employee Handbooks with equity and racial justice
Developing policies that promote systemic equity, racial justice, and belonging
Creating job descriptions, job postings, and hiring practices that promote the diversification needed to achieve the goals of the organization
Aligning employee coaching and evaluations with mission and values-driven principles
Using Equity Lens tools for ongoing decision making, and establishing professional development pathways to foster skills for an equitable work environment
SERVICES
Leadership coaching
Rut’s approach to coaching includes co-creating organic customized leadership plans centering a team or an individual’s interests.
Rut helps leaders identify entrenched systems and structures that support, and are supported by, white supremacy and a culture based on domination. Rut works together with you to develop strategies that promote new, radically transformed work cultures and individual leadership for equity, racial justice and collective liberation.
Coaching includes:
Understanding leadership structures and models rooted in white supremacy.
Developing new models of leadership that are rooted in equity, racial justice and belonging
Defining and co-creating successful leadership in your context
Promoting individual and team accountability, and a culture of trust
“Rut thinks strategically and moves with an intentional approach that is inclusive, yet action-oriented.”
“I am forever changed thanks to your contribution to my learning. I am so, so and forever grateful for you.”
“Working with Rut has been foundational to my exploration of self and interconnection with others.”