Eleanor Savage, of the Jerome Foundation, penned this article in October 2015 for the Arts in a Changing America website:
When Roberta Uno asked me to be part of an ArtChangeUS panel responding to the question of how we shift the paradigm from diversity, inclusion, and representation to equity, desegregation, and transformation, I struggled with how to answer. I am an artist, racial and social justice activist, and I work for Jerome Foundation, an independent foundation that funds the arts. I don’t honestly feel that the arts and culture community as a whole is operating from the standard of diversity or equity. The paradigm I experience daily is still racism, segregation, and exclusion of people of color. As evidence of this, I collected some typical comments that I and other program officers in the funding world hear in response to efforts to address diversity or equity…