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What We Do

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Building a Racially Just DC Through Strategy and Political Education.

Anti-Racist DC works across the city to align leaders, organizations, and communities around actionable racial justice strategies. We organize and support connections so communities move together toward long-term, systemic change.

Our Work at a Glance

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Youth and Nonprofit Organizing

We bring together leaders from nonprofit, philanthropy, and faith-based sectors

  • Hosting quarterly sector-wide convenings to build relationships, share learning, and strategize together.

  • Support Sector Specific Racial Justice strategies/agendas to support collective and communal work for justice

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Racial Justice Training & Political Education

We equip organizations with the tools, knowledge, and shared language needed to act on racial justice.

  • Sector-Specific Racial Justice Trainings – Three full-day sessions each year tailored to the sector’s history, challenges, and opportunities for advancing equity.

  • Quarterly Political Education & Organizing Trainings – Open to all sectors, rooted in community organizing, DC history, Critical Race Theory, Black Feminism, Popular Education, and Queer Theory.

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Data-Driven Strategies

We gather and analyze sector-specific data to understand current racial equity practices and identify opportunities for action.

  • Conducting focus groups, interviews, and assessments.

  • Publishing Sector Needs Reports to guide strategy and track progress.

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