The Atlanta Jews of Color Council encourages communities to reflect on the importance of inclusivity, challenge stereotypes, and work towards creating environments where everyone feels valued and empowered to participate fully in Jewish life.

AJOCC guides institutions, foundations, and companies looking to be more strategic in their impact. We help leaders be equipped to lead intentionally and sustainably in todays fast changing climate. Our vision is to organize a collective voice to provide strategies and solutions that articulate what communal shifts could make it easier for all underrepresented people to feel as though they belong in any space.  Through educational innovation, we use arts based strategies to foster new modes of creative thinking towards a deeper connection to cultural competency understanding. 

WHAT WE DO–

  • Southern civil rights tours facilitation from a multicultural Jewish perspective. (Atlanta, Birmingham, Selma)
  • Speaking Across Differences Workshops – Communication skill-building for collaborative conversations across political disagreement, including tools and exercises leaders can replicate in their own institutions and communities. 
  • Consult how to Design for Belonging and Inclusion in Your Organization – tangible design tools to cultivate a sense of belonging. An organizational ecosystem where everyone can belong and thrive is essential for the success of any enterprise. Over two classes you will set yourself up to investigate belonging in your context, pursue that investigation (on your own, in your context), reflect on what you noticed and use that learning to shape new designs.
  • AJOCC provides liberating, affirming, safe spaces where JOC can gather authentically in community to shape collective identity around cultural impact, empowerment, and build validating relationships.
  • AJOCC facilitates educational workshops, panel discussions, and civil rights tours for developing expanded relationships across faiths, cultures, and races. While it is important to understand the early Civil Rights Movement, we must not rest on the achievements of that movement. Participants learn to build a community of educated, inspired and empowered allies for today’s landscape.
  • We co-create with our clients from concept to implementation using equity audits, metrics, and data to drive impact. We offer nuanced perspectives and resources, along with a 3–12 month follow up of partnership engagements.
  • We use data-driven analysis to set a trajectory for social justice goals to be reached with stakeholders, board members, and ecosystem partners.

Available in the south for in-person consultations; nationally for project-based work, & everywhere virtually.