Ally is an anti-racist initiative by Wellsayer that aims to train 1 million allies by 2023.
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100 million people heard the names Elijah McClain and Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and they better understood what killed them and they resolved to become something new to fight it. They resolved to become a better ally.
But becoming anti-racist required more than just posting on Facebook and donating to a bail fund. It required a marathon of incremental changes - and for many, there wasn't a supportive tool fit for that long-term journey.
Wellsayer is a platform precisely designed to help people achieve that kind of radical self-transformation. And for the next two years, we are dedicating our research and efforts to building tools explicitly designed to transform people into better allies.
By 2023, we aim to train 1 million allies with these new tools.
Here are the core tools we're building in the next 2 years to accomplish that goal.
This is our foundation. Tons of work has been done to define and understand what anti-racism is, but there's a huge gap when it comes to turning those ideas into action.
We are building a toolkit designed to fill that gap - and to do that involves a couple of steps:
That toolkit will serve as the basis for all of our projects in this initiative, including the Journeys and Alliances described below.
The work of anti-racism is generally not glamorous. It is a sequence of changes you make every day over a lifetime. Sometimes it looks like just becoming aware of how racism already exists in your life. Other times it can be about practicing anti-racism habits. And though these changes can sometimes feel small, they are what must add up to achieve extraordinary transformation.