Our JEDI Commitment
Our Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) journey includes self-education work, facilitated team trainings, and community involvement.
Our JEDI Commitment
Over the Years
2020
- Our Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) initiative is formed
- Refined learnings of Power & Privilege and Ally vs Accomplice with Dr. Akilah Cadet
- Unconscious bias team training, guided from influential sources Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People and Biased
2021
- Team members’ inspiration sources that contributed to our JEDI awareness
- Team discussion of Brené Brown in conversation with Austin Channing Brown — I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
- Juneteenth history and commemoration team learning via Gatheround
- Company self-reflection via Tema Okun’s Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture stimulated by B Corp cohort intensive with Hella Social Impact
- Creation of our first JEDI Action Plan outlining our 2022-2023 activities
2022
- Fear of Open Conflict team training led by outside expert Robin Funsten
- Adopted our first transparent compensation policy clarifying determination of salaries, raises, and bonuses based on our company values
- Employee-ownership options explored in consult with fellow B Corp Pixelspoke
2023
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White Men for Racial Justice Foundations and Groundwater Intensive for B Corps
- Creation of our first company Culture Code with Hella Social Impact, in partnership with fellow B Corp Exponent
2024
- YWCA 3-part Racial Justice Workshop exploring anti-Black racism, overlapping systems of oppression, and racial equity in Asheville and Buncombe County
- Asheville’s new Black Cultural Heritage Trail walking tour team outing
With a collective goal of dismantling systems of white supremacy and a drive to fight for the rights of all marginalized communities, members of JB Media Group and JB Media Institute formed a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) initiative in the summer of 2020. Since we first began this work, we have approached our JEDI commitment through a range of self-education work, team trainings, and community involvement.
As a team of individuals concerned about and actively engaged in social justice issues, we have come to acknowledge systemic racism and that historically our company culture has elements that support white dominant culture.
As Founder of JB Media and member of the leadership team, I am committed to supporting changes to our company culture as we become an actively anti-racist organization. Together, as a company, we are addressing our role in perpetuating White Supremacy Culture Characteristics and developing our new JEDI Action Plan and Culture Code, which will be informed by Hella Social Impact’ Notice. Name. Dismantle framework. We are making progress and are eager to share the final results with you soon.
Justin Belleme
Founder and CEO
