Equity and Inclusion Stories
![head shot of Fatema Maswood](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-03/FatemaHeadShotOldCrop.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=Ah9UIEPv)
A brief interview with one of RISD’s Schiller Family Assistant Professors in Race in Art and Design.
![portrait of German Pallares-Avitia](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-01/PallaresPortrait2.jpg?h=adb40a09&itok=gYLelyZs)
The second-year teaching and research fellow shows students how the built environment can shed light on issues of race, class, gender and more.
![Thelma Golden speaks in the RISD Auditorium](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-01/23MLKHero.jpg?h=71e6663c&itok=NA04mg0w)
RISD’s 11th annual MLK Series keynote speaker addresses public art and the importance of creating space for Black artists.
![portrait of Zoe Samudzi](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-01/SamudziPortrait.png?h=dc40ef77&itok=Z5u6jdwn)
SEI Teaching and Research Fellow Zoé Samudzi explores images of violence and death and how humanitarian photography may or may not influence the viewer’s behavior.
![Anderson poses with his piece](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-12/DornerNAndersonWithSculpture.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=xT73-aAN)
Brown|RISD Dual-Degree student Njari Anderson discusses the emotions behind Fountain, his Dorner Prize-winning sculpture now on view at the RISD Museum.
![Dyani White Hawk's painting Connections Moccasins, featuring a red and blue traditional Lakota moccasin side by side](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-11/22WhiteHawkReferenceDisplay.jpg?h=2e3eca71&itok=_89GlDrj)
The latest speaker in RISD’s Indigenous and First Nations Artist Series discusses her own abstract work honoring generations of strong Indigenous women.
![head shot of Nichole Rustin](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-10/RustinListing.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=fvMAfBAh)
SEI Research Fellow Nichole Rustin engages RISD students in contemporary political questions and develops their skills as liberal arts scholars.
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A SPUR-funded project by grad student Zoë Pulley presents positive images of Black people to counteract the negative imagery flooding the media.