RSJI 2018 Employee Survey
2018 RSJI Employee Survey Employee Experiences of Structural Racism Within Seattle City Government 1 Table of Contents Acknowledgements 4 Background 6 About 12 Key Findings 18 Employee Demographics 22 Accountability 40 Workforce Equity 62 Structural Change 74 Next Steps 90 2 3 Acknowledgments COAST We were a people before SALISH “ “We the People.” LANDS Jefferson Keel (Chickasaw), 20th President of the National Congress of American Indians Special Thanks The Office for Civil Rights acknowledges that we live and work on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples. We recognize this territory as occupied lands and stand in solidarity with the Native communities across the Americas that have resisted more than 500 years of structural We hold special gratitude to the following: violence that separate them from their land, culture, and each other. Native communities remain at the forefront of today’s movements to resist corporate The community of people and organizations who pushed for the City of greed and government disregard for treaty rights in order to extract wealth Seattle to address institutional racism, Seattle Human Services Department, from the earth which destroys the life the earth sustains. the founders of the Race and Social Justice Initiative ,anti-racist organizers within Seattle City Government, People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, We honor the historic relationship of the Puget Salish tribes to the greater The Village of Hope, Ven Knox, Darlene Flynn, Glenn Harris, Brenda Anibarro, Seattle area The Duwamish, Klallam, Lummi, Muckleshoot, Nisqually, Nooksack, Silence Breakers, RSJ Affiliates, Department Change Teams, Change Team Puyallup, Sahewamish, Samish, Sammamish, Sauk-Suiattle, Skagit, S’Klallam, Leads, RSJI Equity Leads, Anti-harassment Inter Departmental Team, Lady Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Squaxin Island, Suquamish, Swinomish, Tulalip, and B, Shannon Perez-Darby, Felecia Caldwell, Seattle Department of Human Twana First Nations.
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