Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Talking about race relations, religion, class, or gender identity can be uncomfortable. Sometimes we don’t know what we don’t know. But having respectful and open conversations around diversity pushes us to see the world differently, to think about people and place and circumstance from new perspectives. How empowering, this opportunity for individual and collective growth.
A Conversation with Lab’s Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Anthony Perry, PhD
Charlene Carruthers, in her book Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, argues that “everyone invested in collective liberation must answer the following questions critical to determining the health and success of our movements: Who am I?, Who are my people?, What do we want?, What are we building?, and Are we ready to win?
Before many people at The Lab School met Anthony Perry, PhD on individual and group Zooms, he sent out an email to our “staffulty”—as he calls our faculty and staff, a term that has been joyfully adopted by the community—setting out to answer the question “Who am I?”
Prior to Lab, Dr. Perry worked as a Spanish teacher for 15 years at five different schools across the country where he also worked on various DEI initiatives.
