This document summarizes a leadership event focused on creating equity and discusses the need for a new kind of leadership and leadership development. It defines key terms like health disparities, health inequities, equity, and social equity. It also outlines the four big ideas of equity as procedural fairness, distribution and access, quality, and outcomes. Finally, it lists five strategy elements for achieving equity, including addressing disparities, acknowledging structural causes, disrupting systems, analyzing power structures, and democratic participation.

1. The Equity Show
Leadership for What Matters Most
Creating Space X – Breaking New Ground
Leadership for Social Innovation & Impact
Thursday, May 9 , 2013

2. Paradigm Shift:
From Individual-Interpersonal Frame to
Systems-Structural Frame

3. First Reflection
A NEW LEADERSHI P
Given how race-related inequities harm our
collective future and especially hinder
communities’ of color life chances/opportunity,
what kind of new leadership do we need for the
next several decades?

4. Second Reflection
A NEW LEADERSHI P DEVELOPMENT
Given the new leadership we need, what kind
new leadership development do we need to
shape leadership for equity?

5. Coming Out the Dark
Paradigm Shift

6. Key Terms
Health Disparities - Differences in the incidence and prevalence of
health conditions and health status between groups, based on
Race/ethnicity, Socioeconomic status, Sexual orientation,
Gender, Disability status, geographic location and/or
combinations of these factors).
Health Inequities - Systematic and unjust distribution of social,
economic, and environmental conditions needed for health like:
 Access to resources (e.g., grocery stores, car seats),
Access to healthcare
 Employment/Income; Education
 Housing; Transportation; Positive social status/freedom
from discrimination

7. Shine a Light!
Equity Basics - Four Big Ideas
Equity Basics - Five Strategy Elements

8. Key Terms
Equity - creating opportunities for ALL community members to
fulfill their potential without the barriers or burdens that arise
from a particular socio-economic position or other socially
determined material circumstances.
Social Equity - The fair, just and equitable management of all
institutions and systems serving the public directly (or by
contract), and the fair, just and equitable distribution of public
resources, benefits and services, the implementation of public
policy, and the commitment to promote fairness, justice and
equity in the formation and execution of public policy. (NAPA
Social Equity Panel 2000).

9. Equity Basics
FOUR BIG IDEAS
1. Procedural Fairness: Equity is about providing due process,
equal protection and equal rights to all persons regardless
of their personal characteristics (i.e. race/ethnicitiy, gender,
beliefs, sexual-orientation).
2. Distribution & Access to public/societal resources, benefits
and services.

10. Equity Basics
FOUR BIG IDEAS
3. Quality – Equity is also about assuring there is
consistency in the quality of benefits and services
delivered to all groups of people.
4. Outcomes – Equity seeks to achieve equal level of
outcomes accomplishment in social and economic
conditions for all individuals and seeks to eliminate
differences in outcomes in key life chances for all
groups (ie. education, health, employment, etc.).

11. Equity Basics
FIVE STRATEGY ELEMENTS
1. Addresses Disparity, Disproportionality: Who’ s Affected –
Real People in Real Places
2. Acknowledges that solutions must be Structural, Systemic
and Psycho-Cultural: Imagine the IceBerg: Equity
acknowledges & amends systems, structures and takes
social conditions and psychological and cultural
influences so that neighborhood-level opportunity
structures are enriched.
3. Disrupts, Dismantles and Creates – equity strategies
combines short term disruptive innovations with longer
term creation of equitable/effective systems &
structures.

12. Equity Basics
FIVE STRATEGY ELEMENTS
4. Require explicit analysis around structural racism, poverty
and power arangements as well as the development of
Empathic Cross-Race, Cross-Class Allies who work in
solidarity with communities to help them secure
necessary investment, and also regain their community
self-determination.
5. Anchored in deeply democratic participation of the most
affected individuals having access to governance
structures, participatory decision-making and power-building
and sharing opportunities.