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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lab at OSU-Cascades

Advancing social equity and inclusion in Central Oregon by helping local business owners and managers build diversity in the workplace
Laurel Brauns

Erika McCalpine, a business faculty member at OSU-Cascades, will lead a new laboratory designed to advance social equity and inclusion in Central Oregon by helping local business owners and managers build diversity in the workplace. The lab will provide two diversity and inclusivity trainings this summer. It will also offer consulting services to advise employers […]

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A Love Your Neighbor Recap ▶ (with video)

As Black Lives Matter protests continue, local project centered around the experiences of people of color in Central Oregon holds its second forum
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Last week, the Love Your Neighbor project held its second-ever forum.  Love Your Neighbor shares the experiences of people of color in Central Oregon, launched in 2019 by the Source Weekly and Erika McCalpine, program lead in business administration at OSU-Cascades. WATCH:  In this video, Love Your Neighbor project co-founder Erika McCalpine and panelist Marcus […]

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Moving Forward Together 🎧 (with podcast)

A chat with our 2019 Woman of the Year and the founder of the Love Your Neighbor project
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Erika McCalpine, a business professor at Oregon State University-Cascades, was our 2019 Woman of the Year. This February, McCalpine and the Source launched the Love Your Neighbor project, highlighting the experiences and voices of people of color in Central Oregon. This week, I sat down with McCalpine to talk about this moment in history. Source […]

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Love Your Neighbor

A series of forums, aimed at creating an open door to get to know people of color in our community
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In Central Oregon, conversations around race often start with the phrase,”Bend is so white.” While Census figures show that the region is majority-white, thousands of people of color live, work and play here, too. In the first of several open forums sponsored by the Source Weekly and led by the Source’s 2019 Woman of the […]

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Woman to Woman

Paying it forward with the Source’s Woman of the Year
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As we outlined in the Opinion piece on page 4 of this issue, the Source’s Woman of the Year in 2019 is Erika McCalpine, a business instructor at OSU-Cascades, who moved to this community in early 2018 from Alabama. Not long after, McCalpine experienced at least one racial incident that left her feeling vulnerable—an incident […]

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