The Diversity & Inclusion for All Project offers information, insights, and learning materials for effective diversity & inclusion work from across a range of disciplines, to inspire and enable universities, congregations, and organizations to engage well in diversity & inclusion work in our communities.
Podcast
The Diversity & Inclusion for All podcast captures conversations with professors, practitioners, and people of interest who are teaching, pursuing, and engaging diversity & inclusion in inspirational and effective ways. By exploring a range of diversity topics, this podcast provides on-ramps to better understanding and awareness of issues related to diversity & inclusion work in our communities today.
Listen to the latest episode, or browse past episodes:
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Learning packages
The Diversity and Inclusion for All Project is developing a series of highly engaging and thought-provoking courses, which will be available in early Fall 2021.
Learning Packages center on a podcast and include a variety of additional opportunities to continue your learning, such as mini-lectures by Calvin professors, warm-ups (on-ramp videos or other materials to introduce the topic), a spotlighted text with reading and discussion guides, and a resource list.
About Us
We at Calvin University value diversity and seek to embody inclusion. The professors and community partners who contribute to the Diversity & Inclusion for All (DIFA) project share their expertise and experiences in hopes that we together with you can continue to learn and grow in our understanding of the diversity of people, cultures, beliefs, and experiences in our communities—locally and globally.
The DIFA project is designed to help grow our knowledge, build skills, and develop strategies for engaging in good ways across lines of difference. In our nation and perhaps in many other parts of our world, we are challenged by polarization and tribalization.
The DIFA project is one attempt to help all of us navigate our current moment, practicing how to respectfully engage with others and figuring out what it means to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Project Director and Podcast Host
Dr. Pennylyn Dykstra-Pruim
Associate Dean for Diversity and InclusionPenny’s passion for diversity and inclusion work comes from a range of life experiences. For decades she taught foreign languages and intercultural learning, developing courses for university students and workshops for churches, professional organizations, and non-profits. She has gathered many cross-cultural experiences that both challenging and inspiring, and that provided her with great stories to share. These experiences include identifying as an Asian American woman, being cross-racially adopted, and having lived on four continents.
Check out her recent books:
Acknowledgements
The Diversity and Inclusion for All project is supported by the following:
