Utilize these up-to-date resources to further your knowledge, understanding, and application of diversity, equity and inclusion in your work and everyday life.

Webinars

• Getting Ahead of the Curve with Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity - 1 hour 30 minutes
• 2021 Forum on Workplace Inclusion Conference - March 8 - 12, 2021
• 60 Minutes of DEI - 1 hour
• National Equity Project Free Webinars - 1 hour per webinar
• Indian Health Service LGBTQ Webinars
• Hispanic Star Webinars
• Understanding Unconscious Bias
• Introduction to Inclusion and Allyship
• Diversity & Inclusion Mini-Series: The Foundation of a Thriving Workplace
• What is DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)? by Accelerate
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Webinar by Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Why They Matter for Businesses Big and Small by Berkeley College

Articles

• 4 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Disability-Inclusion Practices
• A Changing World: Global Views on Diversity, Gender Equality, Family Life and the Importance of Religion
• Smart People Are as Racist as Less-Smart People – But Smart Enough to Hide It
• Women of Color Get Less Support at Work. Here’s How Managers Can Change That
• Managers Pick Mini-Me Proteges of Same Race, Gender
• These are the False Beliefs We Still Hold About Introverts and Extroverts
• 17,000 Data Points from 50 Top Brands Prove the Diversity in Ads is Good for Their Bottom Lines
• 3 Ways to Improve Your Cultural Fluency
• What Makes You “Multicultural”
• 7 Maps That Tell the Incredible Story of Aging in America
• Ageism is Thriving, So What Are Companies Doing About It?
• Do Lawsuits Improve Gender and Racial Equality at Work?
• Do Your Diversity Efforts Reflect the Experiences of Women of Color?
• Five Ways an Anti-Racist White Caucus Supports Diversity and Inclusion
• For the First Time, Most New Working-Age Hires in the U.S. Are People of Color
• Those She/Her/Hers at the End of Email Messages Are More Than a Passing Trend
• How to Show White Men That Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Need Them
• Pinterest Releases Gender Transition Guide to Help Other Organizations Facilitate Change
• The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
• 103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• Teaching Your Child about Black History Month
• Microaggressions are a Big Deal: How to Talk them Out and When to Walk Away
• COVID-19 Lays Bare How Discrimination Drives Health Disparities Among Black People
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
• Blindspot Implicit Association Test
• What Can White People Do?
• A History of Anti-Hispanic Bigotry in the United States
• The long, ugly history of anti-Asian racism and violence in the United States
• The State of the LGBTQ Community in 2020
• How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
• Going Deeper with Diversity and Inclusion
• Creating a Workplace Culture of Belonging, Diversity, and Inclusivity
• Why Confronting Racism in A.I. ‘Creates a Better Future for All of Us’
• Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
• Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate – and How to Push Back
• Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
• How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
• Bollywood, Skin Color, and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India After Independence
• 4 Important (and Sometimes Difficult) Steps Leaders Must Take to Create a More Diverse and Inclusive Team
• How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Team
• How to Become a Less Biased Version of Yourself
• How to Confront Bias Without Alienating People
• ‘Checkbox Diversity’ Must Be Left Behind for DEI Efforts to Succeed
• Why the Diversity Landscape is Still Slanted Towards Inequality
• How Leaders Around the World Build Trust Across Cultures
• Meritocracy Doesn’t Exist, and Believing It Does Is Bad for You
• 12 Things You Can Do Today to Improve Race Relations Across America
• Privileged
• Privilege. Through the Eyes of White People with Chelsea Handler
• 4 Reasons Why You Should Watch MTV’s ‘White People’ Documentary
• How to Make Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion a Reality at Work – Not Just a Mission Statement
• How to Have More Inclusive Meetings Over Zoom
• Why We Shouldn’t Underestimate the Power of Diversity
• How Do You Get from Diversity to Inclusion? Ask These 4 Questions About Your Meetings
• How Stories of Personal Experience Help Drive Change
• Why Martin Luther King, Jr Is More Than Just a Holiday: A Conversation with Selma Director Ava Duvernayv
• The End of Racism Starts With Each of Us: Q&A With Verna Myers
• How Food – Yes, Food – Can Be a Tool for Social Change
• Autistic People Are Not Failed Versions of “Normal.” They’re Different, Not Less
• Native American Filmmakers, Movies, amd More
• BIPOC Mental Health Care
• Workers With Disabilities and the ADA
• Encouraging Women in STEM
• Navigating Pregnancy Discrimination
• A Guide to Credit for Hispanics & Latinos
• Closing the Life Insurance Coverage Gap Among Hispanic Americans

Books

• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Time Wise
• Courageous Conversations about Race by Glenn E. Singleton
• We Can’t Talk about That at Work! How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics by Mary-Frances Winters
• Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
• We are Everywhere by Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown
• Stonewall by Martin Duberman
• I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez
• Occupied America: A History of Chicanos by Rodolfo Acuna
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Diversity Gap: Where Good Intentions Meet True Cultural Change  by Bethany B. Wilkinson 
• DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right by Lily Zheng
• Inclusion on Purpose by Ruchika Tulshyan
• I Never Thought of it That Way: How To Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Mónica Guzmán
• Do Better: Spiritual Activism For Fighting and Healing White Supremacy by Rachel Ricketts
• Heal Your Way Forward: The Co-Conspirator’s Guide to an Anti-Racist Future by Myisha T. Hill
• The Waymakers: Clearing the Path to Workplace Equity with Competence and Confidence by Tara Jaye Frank
• I’m Tired of Racism: True Stories of Existing While Black by Sharon Hurley Hall
• I’m Not Yelling: A Black Woman’s Guide to Navigating the Workplace by Elizabeth Leiba
• The Inclusive Organization: Real Solutions, Impactful Change, and Meaningful Diversity by Netta Jenkins
• Say More About That…And Other Ways to Speak Up, Push Back, and Advocate for Yourself and Others by Amber Cabral
• All Are Welcome by Cynthia Owyoung
• The Wake Up by Michelle MiJung Kim
• How to Be an Inclusive Leader by Jennifer Brown
• Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace & The Will to Change by Jennifer Brown
• The Inclusion Dividend by Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan
• The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood
• Belonging at Work: Everyday Actions You Can Take to Cultivate an Inclusive Organization by Rhodes Perry
• Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams by Pamela Fuller, Mark Murphy, and Anne Chow
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
• The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation by Timothy R. Clark
• The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer
• The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace by Lindsey Pollak
• Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces by Karen Catlin and Sally McGraw
• Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams by Stefanie K. Johnson
• Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions by Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira Lee
• Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
• Mink River by Brian Doyle
• The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
• Deaf Utopia by Nyle DiMarco
• The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
• On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life by Sara Ahmed
• Gender: Your Guide by Lee Airton
• Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts by Brené Brown
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them by Shakil Choudhury
• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
• Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists by Ellen Daniell
• Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077 by Craig Davidson
• Academic Ableism by Jay Timothy Dolmage
• Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
• Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi
• Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney-Lopez
• How Women Decide: What’s True, What’s Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices by Therese Huston
• Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships Across Differences by Tiffany Jana and Matthew Freeman
• Erasing Institutional Bias: How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational Inclusion by Tiffany Jana and Ashley Diaz Mejias
• Teaching Interculturally: A Framework for Integrating Disciplinary Knowledge and Intercultural Development by Any Lee, Robert Poch, Mary Katherine O’Brien, and Catherine Solheim
• The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal by Jonathan Mooney
• What If I Say the Wrong Thing? 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People by Verna A. Myers
• Trans* In College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion by Z. Nicolazzo
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Noble
• Color Matters: Skin Tone Bias and the Myth of a Postracial America by Kimberly Jade Norwood
• Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
• The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott E. Page
• White Teacher by Vivian Gussin Paley
• Design Patterns: Coding Accessibility into Web Design by Heydon Pickering
• Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorious
• No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement by Joseph Shapiro
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Danial Tatum
• What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey
• Uncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America by Zachary R. Wood

Podcasts

• The Diversity Gap
• The Will to Change
• Choose Inclusion
• Inclusion Works
• Diversity Deep Dive
• LGBTQ Podcast
• Latina to Latina
• Asian Americana
• Scene on Radio – Season 2 – Seeing White
• Nice White Parents
• What Does It Take to Close the Opportunity Gap in America’s Labor Market?
• Using Empathy and Curiosity to Overcome Differences

Videos

• 5 Tips for Being and Ally
• Examples of Workplace Microaggressions
• Educate to Eliminate Microaggressions in the Workplace
• 70 People Reveal Their Country's Most Popular Stereotypes and Cliches
• Inclusion Starts With I
• All That We Share
• White People documentary
• Why Are Schools More Segregated Now Than In the 1980s?
• 5 Hiring Tips Every Company (and Job Seeker) Should Know
• We Need Leaders Who Boldly Champion Inclusion
• Why U.S. Laws Must Expand Beyond the Nuclear Family
• How the Higher Education System Fails Black Educators
• How to Reduce Bias in Your Workplace
• How to Build Community as a Newcomer
• What It’s Really Like to Have Autism
• The Importance of Using Inclusive Language
• How to Keep Human Bias Out of A.I.
• 3 Ways to Be a Better Ally in the Workplace
• The Power of Diversity Within Yourself
• What It’s Like to be the Child of Immigrants
• It’s (Past) Time to Appreciate Cultural Diversity
• How Diversity Makes Teams More Innovative
• How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them
• Color Blind or Color Brave?

Movies and Documentaries

• Philadelphia
• Just Mercy
• BlacKKKlansman
• Moonlight
• The Help
• Selma
• Moana
• Dora and the Lost City of Gold
• Wonder
• Coco
• Spelling the Dream
• Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse
• Hidden Figures
• Home
• Akeelah and the Bee
• Mulan
• A Ballerina’s Tale
• Lilo & Stitch
• Remember the Titans
• The Princess and the Frog
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
• Big Hero 6
• Wadjda
• Ruby Bridges
• Call Me by Your Name
• The Express
• 42
• The Danish Girl
• Selena
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Stand and Deliver
• City of God
• Dancing in the Light: The Janet Collins Story
• Crazy Rich Asians
• The Farewell
• Pride
• On the Way to School
• I Am Eleven
• Loving
• Life, Animated
• Right Footed
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• 12 Years a Slave
• Milk
• The Intern
• The Imitation Game
• Hale
• One Night in Miami
• Run
• The Yellow Rose
• Black Panther
• Just Mercy
• 13^th
• The Hate U Give
• Dear White People
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• The Prom
• Black Klansmen
• Joe Bell
• Moonlight
• The Farewell
• Dangal
• Wonder Woman
• Shang-Chi: Legend of the 10 Rings
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything
• Encanto
• The Tale of Princess Kaguya
• Spirited Away
• Ponyo
• Free to Be You and Me
• Spelling the Dream
• The Revolutionary Optimists
• Raya and the Last Dragon
• Liyana
• Soul
• Smoke Signals
• Over the Moon
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
• Do the Right Thing
• Get Out
• Fruitvale Station
• Bamboozled
• West Side Story
• A Raison in the Sun
• In the Heat of the Night
• When They See Us
• Native America
• Changing the Game
• Sorry to Bother You
• A Fantastic Woman
• Strong Island
• Sins Invalid: An Unashamed Claim to Beauty
• From Incarceration to Education
• Dolores
• I am Not Your Negro
• Almost Sunrise
• Raising Zoey
• Scared Waters
• Poor Kids
• The Mask You Live In
• The Theory of Everything
• The Untouchables
• Forrest Gump
• A Brilliant Mind
• Monsters University
• Adú
• Champions
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Crazy Rich Asians
• Girls Trip
• The Big Sick
• Vivo
• Zootopia
• And the Children Shall Lead
• The Color of Friendship
• Belle
• The Secret Life of Bees
• Hard Lessons
• Queen of Katwe

Community Opportunities

• Celebrating Black History Month as a Community and Champaign-Urbana
• How to Celebrate Black History Month in Chicago
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 101
• Illinois Diversity Council Events
• Women's History Month
• National Hispanic Heritage Month
• Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
• Native American Heritage Month

Volunteer Opportunities

• Inclusive Volunteerism
• Volunteer Now Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• A Guide to Promoting Inclusive Volunteering
• Fighting Racism Through Diverse and Inclusive Volunteer Engagement Programming
• United Way of Champaign County
• United Way of Metro Chicago
• United Way of Central Illinois
• United Ways in Illinois
• American Red Cross
• AmeriCorps
• Champaign Public Library
• Family Service of Champaign County
• Habitat for Humanity
• Salt & Light
• Chicago Cares
• Greater Chicago Food Depository
• City of Chicago
• Chicago Park District
• Chicago Public Schools
• PAWS Chicago
• Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois
• CASA of Sangamon County
• Springfield Parks Foundation
• Inner City Mission
• The Matthew Project
• Make-A-Wish Illinois

University Resources

• Employment - view basic information about the University of Illinois as an employer, and search for job opportunities at each campus.
• University HR and EEO Offices - contact information for each university office, as well as links to their websites.
• Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion – Urbana-Champaign Campus
• Office of Diversity, Equity & Engagement – Chicago Campus
• Diversity Center – Springfield Campus

System Offices Resources

• IPEDS Surveys - Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is the primary source for data on colleges, universities, and technical and vocational postsecondary institutions in the United States.
• University Ethics Office - a resource for specialized guidance on ethical matters for the University.
• Affirmative Action Information for System Offices - view the current System Office Affirmative Action Plan and Goals, last year's Goal Attainment Report, and the System Office EEO Search Guidelines.
• System Office Search Guidelines - Search and Waiver Guidelines
• Reasonable Accommodation Request Form
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEI&B) Certificate Program

Diversity & Inclusion Trainings

• Cornell University Certificate Program – Diversity & Inclusion Training ($)
• HR University – Diversity and Inclusion Certification ($)
• Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace on Coursera ($)
• Diversity Works by Human Resource Development Quarterly (HRDQ) ($)
• Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program by American Management Association (AMA) ($)
• Leading with Effective Communication (Inclusive Leadership Training) by edX
• Understanding Unconscious Bias by Microsoft (free)

Additional Resources

• Microsoft’s Free DEI Content Library
• 2021 Diversity Holidays and Heritage Months 
• Illinois Diversity Council
• City of Champaign Office of Equity, Community and Human Rights
• Nonprofit Learning Lab - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• 10 Resources for your Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Efforts