Anti-racist Community Coordinator Job Description
As the Anti-racist Community Coordinator, your job is to ensure that the Women’s Resource Center is actively addressing anti-racist issues. The person filling this position must be well educated on anti-racist issues, consistently educating yourself, and it is your job to know the information, or where to find it! There are many organizations both on campus and in the community that deal with anti-racist issues, so it is also your job to network with these organizations.
Responsibilities:
· Maintain 4 office hours a week: Answer phone, recycle, keep office open during business hours, answer questions, refer students to outside resources, loan books and magazines, sell keepers and vibrators, update bulletin boards, hang flyers, etc.
· Attend weekly Women’s Resource Center staff meetings and both semester retreats.
· Must create at least two events a semester centered on anti-racist activism, or collaborate on at least two events ensuring that anti-racism and related issues are integral to the workshop/event that you are becoming a part of. Ideally, during Women’s Herstory Month (March), Black Herstory Month (Feb.), Campus Dialogue on Race and/or the Social Justice Summit.
· Table on the quad. Answer passerby’s questions, tell people about what we do/up-coming events
Qualifications:
· Must be comfortable working on feminist issues (combating sexism, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, classism and all other forms of oppression) and highlighting racism/anti-racist activism in places that we wouldn’t normally think to look: for example how racism and transphobia, or racism and environmental justice are connected, etc…
· Must be an HSU student