Building Courageous Communities

The Racial Justice Collaborative is a Black-led organization dedicated to deep race education, dialogue, and bridge-building. Our primary work involves facilitating comprehensive discussions on race, offering workshops, and consulting with cities, communities, nonprofits, and other institutions to foster a deeper understanding of racial issues and unity.

Make an impact

Support the Racial Justice Collaborative as we continue to combat racism with open multi-racial conversations. We create a safe, compassionate space for multi-racial, multi-cultural dialogue on difficult, often taboo, topics like race and white supremacy. Make an impact on racial justice by donating to the Racial Justice Collaborative. Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law.

Welcome

A word from our founder Diane Wong

In this video, Diane Wong — founder of the Racial Justice Collaborative — introduces sovereignty: the internal strength to stay present, grounded, and self-governed even in difficult conversations across race, culture, and difference. It's the ability to think clearly and choose your response instead of reacting from fear or habit.

Three Pathways. One Purpose.

  • Emotional & Leadership Capacity

    The internal steadiness required to lead through conflict, uncertainty, and change. We build the sovereign foundation that makes everything else possible — grounding, lineage awareness, and the capacity to stay present under pressure.

  • Conflict & Racial Dialogue Facilitation

    Skilled, sovereignty-based facilitation for high-heat conversations and racial tension. We create the conditions where difficult things can actually be said — and heard.

  • Community Resilience & Preparedness

    Strengthening civic stability, cross-racial solidarity, and adaptive capacity. We prepare communities for a world in transition — not by managing crisis, but by building the relational infrastructure that holds when things get hard.

UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Emotional Regulation: Who Has to Stay Calm?

Learn practical tools to stay grounded under pressure without losing your voice, your dignity, or yourself. Free virtual RJC Pop-Up. This session explores what emotional regulation really is: not managing your feelings to keep someone else comfortable, but building the capacity to stay grounded in who you are, even when the moment is asking you not to be.

Thursday August 20, 2026
7:00 - 8:00 PM ET

Online event
Tickets are by donation on Eventbrite

MORE EVENTS

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Anti-Blackness and The Birth of a Nation

Discover how one film shaped a century of belief and why its influence still echoes through America today. In 1915, a three-hour silent film became the highest-grossing movie in American history and helped bring the Ku Klux Klan back from the dead. Understanding how a story was built is often the first step toward seeing the stories we're still living inside today.

Saturday, September 19, 2026
12:00 - 1:30 PM ET

Online event
Tickets are by donation on Eventbrite

  • "Speak up so you can be alive!"

    Workshop participant

  • "I use my privilege to hide, but I don't want to hide anymore."

    Workshop participant

  • "[The workshops] are difficult, but really healing and rewarding."

    Workshop participant

  • "You need to deal with your feelings first. Otherwise you'll be stagnant in where you want to go."

    Workshop participant