
Explore race and systems of racism within workplaces and school spaces, and examine how diversity, inclusion, and equality relate to belonging.
Examine how systemic racism operates to privilege certain outcomes, not by individual intent. Engage with journal exercises to inventory your race and track reflections across lessons.
Define racism as privilege plus power, note you can participate in a racist system without personal racism, define white supremacy as that system, and identify stereotypes in media.
Explore how racism is baked into U.S. law through historical statutes, from 1641 Maryland and slavery to the 1830 Indian Removal Act, and how civil rights movements resist the system.
Trace the complex history of racism from activists and enslaved people resisting dehumanization to the 1861 Civil War, fugitive slave law, white supremacy seeds, and postwar citizenship shaping belonging.
Recognize bias, don't normalize it, and call out racism when you see it, then apply these insights to your life and actions toward inclusion, equality, and belonging.
Explore the 400-year history of women in the feminist movement and examine gender-based violence, while journaling and expressing ideas through writing, poetry, or drawing.
Define sexism as a system of oppression based on prejudice plus power within a patriarchy. Examine male privilege, feminism, and Rosie the Riveter as symbols of equal human rights.
Trace sexism in us herstory by examining chastisement laws and chattel laws that made wives property, denied rights, and ended with the 1981 Supreme Court ruling.
Explore the first wave of feminism in the United States, honoring Anne Hutchinson, Sojourner Truth, Victoria Woodhull, and Madam C. J. Walker, and highlighting abolition, suffrage, and women's power.
Are you curious about how we landed at the current crossroads in our culture? This course offers basic terminology and some of the history of our culture wars, what's at stake, and tools with which to develop your own approach to these topics.
Welcome to Peace in Action! We are Dr. Gerri Budd and Professor Donnalynn Scillieri, and are very happy to meet you and to share our university experience with you.
Peace in Action is an educational firm providing workshops, classes and programs to help our clients create workplaces that are more open, civil, welcoming, and inclusive. The material was created by two university professors to create safe ways to talk about psychological safety, mental health, wellness, and belonging. We are proud to be a zero waste-to-landfill company.
Our approach to training emphasizes understanding, kindness, and zero judgment. We invite our workshop participants to connect their own lives and experiences to our current national debates, and our unique program welcomes all - all - perspectives and encourages people to navigate towards embracing the values of psychological safety. We also work to help participants understand how the values of equality, tolerance, and inclusion help everyone to experience better living and working environments.
Dr. Budd and Professor Scillieri have appeared on News12 New Jersey (USA), published in the Bergen Record (North Jersey Newspapers – USA) and were awarded the Ramapo College of New Jersey (USA) Presidential Coin. They have been moderators and guest panelists at universities, non-profits and international corporations.
Certified in Mental Health First Aid
Certified in Gender Based Violence Prevention
Peace in Action is a certified Small Business and Women Owned Business. Our clients and affiliations include:
The National Council for Mental Wellbeing
The Mental Health Association in New Jersey
Turner Construction
The Township of Grafton, MA
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Montclair State University
Union College of Union County NJ
The New Jersey Community Development Corporation
The New Jersey Business and Industry Association
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
The United Nations Global Marketplace
TTA Empire, Inc.