EQ·UI·TY/ˈekwədē/
“Proactively creating policies, practices, and attitudes that increase access, opportunities, and positive outcomes for all people, particularly those impacted by systemic disadvantage, marginalization, and exclusion.”
CONSULTING
WORKSHOPS
Workshops & Trainings
Challenging Implicit Bias, Recruiting Diverse Excellence, Understanding Racism & Sexism
Dynamic, research-based workshops focused on recruiting & retaining diverse talent, challenging unconscious bias, reducing micro-aggressions, and eliminating barriers to employment for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Consulting
Equity Building
Paula brings over ten years of assessment, strategic planning, executive coaching, workshop facilitation, and research analysis on improving equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace and eliminating biases that hinder workplace excellence, innovation, and productivity.
“Paula Ioanide is one of the few white women that I can honestly say ‘gets it’, and can articulate it in a manner that people can understand without becoming defensive. Her social justice lens is perfectly focused.”
The Emotional Politics of Racism
"Beautifully written and researched, this book makes significant contributions to critical race theory, feminist studies, law, cultural studies, sociology of culture, political theory, and ethnic studies." - Dr. Barbara Tomlinson, UC Santa Barbara
ABOUT PAULA
As a white, Romanian-American woman and mother with one foot rooted in community and the other in scholarly research, Paula protects and defends the former with the latter; embodying a soul-stirring paradigm shift towards empathy, equity, and action.
Paula has over 12 years of consulting and facilitation experience on building equity, diversity, and inclusion in workplaces and is CEO of Rise to Equity Excellence, LLC. She brings data-driven and research-based DEIB solutions to communities and workplaces. From 2008-2022, Paula was a professor of comparative race and ethnicity studies at the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity at Ithaca College. Currently, Paula is a qualitative researcher working on racial equity in public safety, criminal justice, and organizational systems.
She earned her PhD in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz in 2008 under the mentorship of Angela Y. Davis, Neferti Tadiar, George Lipsitz, and Tricia Rose. She has spent her career working with a thought-leading global community toward racial and gender equity.
CONTACT
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“Paula Ioanide is one of the formidable anti-racist feminists working today to achieve a restorative justice for all... She brings emancipatory change by helping people understand how to connect the restrictions of systemic racism to their individual potential to resist. ”