SoM Staff JEDI Collective
The School of Medicine Staff JEDI Collective brings together representatives from across the School to connect central and local efforts around justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI). The group is led by the Staff JEDI Team and the direction of the group is co-created across the membership.
Members attend monthly meetings, engage with each other via a Slack channel, mailing list, and community-building opportunities, and connect the collective’s efforts to their DFA and departmental DEI committee. Currently, the Collective has three subgroups to advance efforts around organizational change for JEDI: Advisory Board; Employee Education and Advancement; and (Inter)Departmental Collaboration.
The focus areas for each subgroup are listed below.
Advisory Board assists the Staff JEDI team in strategic planning for the Collective, including its sustainability and long-term vision, informed by Collective members’ experience.
Employee Education and Advancement ideates, curates, and coordinates optional learning and professional development opportunities for Collective members. These learning opportunities include hosting lunch and learn workshops and supporting staff in professional development and upskilling opportunities related to organizational change for JEDI.
(Inter)Departmental Collaboration facilitates and creates a more robust culture of collaboration and connection between SoM departments and units. This subgroup seeks to foster transparency, increase critical information sharing, and distribute best practices by hosting DEI committee cross-talks and the Staff JEDI Collective mini-grant program.
Resource Guides
The SoM Staff JEDI Collective created 15 resource guides to embed leading JEDI practices into employee experience resources. These resource guides were generated by members of each subgroup. Overall, each guide seeks to better embed JEDI strategy into personal interactions, organizational structures, and daily practices, thus fostering cultural transformation.
Open each accordion tab to download its respective guide and view its corresponding slide deck.
Submit your feedback on edits that need to be made or ways you have used the guides using the form below.
Mini-Grant Pilot Program
The Staff JEDI Collective Mini-Grant Pilot Program is a mechanism to support innovative programming that promotes justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) efforts across the School of Medicine. This pilot program, funded by the School of Medicine Human Resources Group, allows departments and units to enhance collaboration and advance strategic priorities in JEDI.
Eligibility Criteria:
- Proposals must be for an event, activity, or offering exploring topics related to identity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, justice, and/or equity
- Proposals must be jointly hosted between 2 or more Departments/Units, benefiting multiple groups
- Proposals must significantly include School of Medicine staff
Funding Amount: A limited number of mini-grants will be distributed this fiscal year, with no individual receiving more than $2,000.
The Staff JEDI Collective Mini-Grant Pilot has closed its applications for this fiscal year. The next application cycle will be announced at a later date.
Questions? Email somhrgjedi@stanford.edu.