A second year of workshops returns
Thursday, June 12, 2025
8 AM – 7 PM at Westfield State University
Equity in the 413: Western Massachusetts Racial Equity Summit is a convening to support relationship building across several industry areas. This call-to-action helps attendees from our region align our efforts to advance racial equity in workplaces and organizations across western Massachusetts.
In 2023, nearly 400 attendees joined us for Equity in the 413 to participate in more than a dozen workshops offered on advancing racial equity in workplaces across industry areas. For 2025, we’re excited to offer more workshops and self-care opportunities.
At the Summit you will:
- Learn how to analyze and incorporate data in an asset-based framework to understand how racial inequity is impacting our region and drive our efforts to support advancing racial equity.
- Learn how to create talent acquisition and employee engagement plans that increase diversity in your workforce while building equitable practices across the employee life cycle in an inclusive culture.
- Learn how to develop and enact internal policies and practices that can be changed to support people in moving along a continuum of equitable practices.
- Learn lessons from leaders who have begun to advance racial equity in their organizations.
Summit Agenda
Explore the Summit’s workshops, presentations, and more.
2025 Equity in the 413 Agenda
Session Presenters
Meet the Summit’s speakers, workshop facilitators, and session presenters.
Equity in the 413 Workshops and Facilitators for 2025
Organizing Partners
Become a Community Partner
Together we amplify the impact in our community. We know that all interested partners do not have equal ability to support the advancement of this important work, but we know that all contributions are valuable and that all potential partners are invested in the work of advancing racial equity in our region. For this reason, we are asking that you to reconsider how we view traditional sponsorship opportunities rooted in hierarchy in a way that celebrates support based on the dollar amounts that a partner contributes and shift to a community partner model to support the conference at a level that your organization is able.
Our goal is to raise $80,000 from our community partners. All community partners will receive 3 tickets to the Summit and have their logo on materials provided to participants on the day of the Summit including any PowerPoint presentations during the welcoming.
Want to learn more? Download the Community Partners packet here.
2025 Community Partners
Karin L. George
Katie Allan Zobel
Thank you for your Partnership.
Post-Event Evaluation
We kindly request a few minutes of your time to complete a brief survey after the summit. Your feedback allows us to provide even more impactful events in the future.