Heather Arnold-Renicker
Equity Coach & Curriculum Designer
Heather Arnold-Renicker is a born and raised Coloradan and started her career in 2002 as a case manager in a rape crisis center in Boulder where her passion for anti-oppressive practice emerged. Since 2011, Professor Arnold-Renicker has also been focusing her career on developing and facilitating anti-oppression trainings for local and national organizations and consulting with organizations that want to change their internal policies and practices to better support staff of color, staff who are LGBTQ, and staff from other marginalized identity groups.
What does an equitable world look like to you?
A world where everyone is safe and free to live happy, healthy, full lives.
What do participants take away from the Equity Labs?
A better understanding of how to assess their own need for skill development around issues of diversity, equity and inclusion and can do this in partnership with others in their organizations that seek to do the same.
Who is someone you admire and why?
This is always a tough question for me...I deeply admire Anne Braden. She was a civil rights activist in Kentucky and stood up for racial justice and was arrested for it. As a white person, to put herself on the line like that in a time when it was much less "popular" to do so, I am inspired by her commitment to her values and to justice.
If you could travel anywhere right now, where would you go?
Japan
Connect with Heather at heather.arnold-renicker@du.edu.