The People’s Institute is committed to a supportive process, guided by community leaders who are clear about structural racism and power. This process will be based on the community’s values and self-determined goals leading towards anti-racist practice.

The Reflection, Assessment & Evaluation (RAE) team helps an organization or group to state, observe and measure its vision and values with as much energy and commitment as it measures its “objective” goals and outcomes. This assessment process is based on The People’s Institute core anti-racist organizing principles.

The R.A.E Team is developed as a part of PISAB’s commitment to servicing its family members and friends in effort to attain and maintain deeper connections and significant work that makes a difference. It will also provide anti-racist organizers and networkers with tools and roads to educate institutional gatekeepers and serve as a liaison for institutions seeking PISAB’s guidance. This R.A.E. Team will provide outreach and inreach to support trainers, organizers, networkers, and The Institute. 

The R.A.E. Team is evolving to help people make sense of present crises at a challenging time for the world in which we live. 

Today, we see individuals and systems exploring options. For instance, we see Black Lives Matter and much larger movements pushing for accountability. We see that there’s a need for reconciliation between community members and within organizations after, or even to prevent, community fall out. We see that communities are facing major disparities in the challenge of COVID-19 and healthcare systems. We also see, among many other disparities unnamed, community detriment brought on by police and/or legal systems.

For more than 40 years, we have been supporting people to contextualize their experiences in an understanding of racism, history and culture. Our praxis supports organizations and groups as they understand the ways people have been disempowered. 

As people get a sense of their own power, our anti-racist organizing principles provide a framework for accountability, leadership development, and the racialization process dehumanizes all people.