Equality Works (EQW) is comprised of human rights educators, researchers, and advocates dedicated to education and action that transforms work. We develop materials, provide resources, and offer services to expand human rights awareness and shift workplace practices. Through consultations, workshops, research, and advocacy, we strive to cultivate the workplace as a space of creativity, solidarity, democratic engagement, and productivity.

We work to develop and apply critical knowledge to reshape policy, law, and cultural practices related to work. We are committed to building worlds where all work enhances human dignity, produces value of benefit to all members of the global community, and contributes to producing wellness in individuals, communities, and ecological systems.

We partner with private and public institutions, non-profit and for-profit businesses and organizations, governmental and civil society enterprises. We address issues of workplace discrimination, dynamics of systemic oppression, and authoritarian forms of governance through processes that strengthen capacities to learn, build alliances across differences, and enable leadership and change to circulate throughout the organization.

We work with our constituents to cultivate work environments hospitable to diverse people, perspectives, and possibilities. We support learning that expands wealth creation, enables work-life balance, affirms cultural, ethnic, gender, racial, linguistic, and neuro diversity, and produces goods and services of value to human beings and ecological systems. We pledge to always interact with our partners with respect, to honor the knowledge and history that you bring, and to commit to mutual learning that positively impacts our work and life. 

Equality Works (EQW) was founded by alumni from the University of San Francisco International & Multicultural Education Graduate Program. We are currently comprised of socially engaged scholars and educators from various institutions who strive to create and share knowledge with diverse communities toward positive social transformation.

Check out INNOVATE!, our latest program for workplace Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.