Thursday, June 12, 2025

8 AM – 5 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:

Summit Agenda Coming Soon

Explore the Summit’s workshops, presentations, and more.

Session Presenters Coming Soon

Meet the Summit’s speakers, workshop facilitators, and session presenters.

Partner with Us!

Become a community partner. Gain visibility and support impactful conversations that shape our future.

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

Thank you for your Partnership.