Helping Black and Brown communities stand against structural oppression through evidence-based research

History

EqRC is a research collaborative made up of scholars in and outside of the academy. Our organization was founded to center the voices, concerns, ideas, and leadership of scholars of color in research projects, community partnership and redistribution of resources.

Since our co-founders came together in 2021, EqRC has partnered with foundations, non-profit organizations, colleges and universities to address the educational, economical, and political concerns of communities of color. As a collaborative, we have brought together equity experts of color to complete small- and large-scale research projects.

In 2024, EqRC launched our Justice Agenda, which you can learn more about here.

Since 2021, the inspiration for our collective is a belief that justice-driven work needs to be led by equity experts who are members of historically excluded groups whose work has proven to disrupt inequities.

Our justice agenda focuses on:

  1. Redistribution of organizational resources, opportunity, and technical and, support;
  2. Rigorous research that highlights marginalized voices and elevates justice solutions;
  3. Policy advocacy to operationalize how different levers can support the intersectional needs of communities.

Mission

The Equity Research Cooperative (EqRC) is a non-profit research group that advances the social, economic, educational, and political interests of communities of color through community-engaged research, advocacy, and the praxis of redistribution.

As a People of Color-led interdisciplinary research cooperative, we strategically redistribute our financial resources, academic capital, and operational infrastructure to social justice initiatives, organizations, and movements that redress structural oppression.

Vision

We are guided by a deep and abiding Freedom Dream: 

One day Black and Brown communities will receive and experience dynamic reparative justice and the depth and breadth of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy and capitalism will be eradicated. 

On this day, Black and Brown communities will stand in the power of their sovereignty.  We embrace this vision as a rich inheritance of the social justice movements that came before us and the radical love we share with one another. 

This is our dream. See how we’re making it a reality.