Office of Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Events
DEI visit to AA museum
Dear Colleagues,

Hello and welcome to our newsletter! Here we share upcoming events we lead, information on events open to the public you may enjoy, and news we feel is important as it relates to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Our April and May in-person events are postponed but we are currently working on developing virtual programming. If you have any questions or ideas for us, please send us an email at DEI@MGHIHP.edu. We hope you and your loved ones are well during this time.

Sincerely,
The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4/1, 12pm-1pm: Tune in Tuesday-Racial Wealth Gap
Join us on Zoom as we discuss Wealth with a focus on the Racial Wealth Gap to kick off our Financial Empowerment series. Meeting ID: 669 670 129

dei wealth gap
Tuesdays in April, 12pm-1pm: Financial Empowerment Series
In partnership with Harvard University Employees Credit Union, we will have three workshops on financial empowerment via Zoom. The sessions will be led by Migdalia Gomez, AFC ® Community Engagement Manager for HUECU.

4/7 : Financial Check Up
Calculate key financial benchmarks, and create a strategy to improve your financial well-being. We'll discuss budgeting, credit and debt repayment.

4/14: Money Magic: Stretching Your Dollars
Learn where to go to stretch your dollars, what tools to use to track your money, and banking best practices from local budget experts.

4/21: Conquer Credit
A high credit score saves you money and helps you reach financial freedom. We’ll discuss credit reports, scores and choosing a credit card.

Resource Sharing
Food Resources: We understand food insecurity is a very real problem for the communities we serve, and for some of our students. We've compiled some resources to help ease this burden.

Yellow Peril Teach-In Resources: As we continue to track the development of COVID-19, racial fears and anxieties have become a dominant frame in which people evaluate the concerns over the ongoing situation. Dr.Jason Oliver Chang, Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut, curates a public google doc intended to gather textual and digital resources to provide easy access to material useful for teach-ins, talking points, and classroom teaching. 

Advancing Care For a Diverse Society
Complete the 2020 Census and encourage others to complete it as well, especially those from marginalized and minoritized backgrounds. The 2020 Census will determine congressional representation and provide data that will impact communities for the next 10 years. It will inform the allocation of hundreds of billions in federal funding every year to more than 100 programs, including Medicaid, Head Start, block grants for community mental health services, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP. Therefore, it is especially important for marginalized and minoritized communities to be counted as their data will determine access to federal resources.