Equipping THE NEXT GENERATION

Training



Past Events

  • Investigating history for reparative storytelling with Laura Kebede-Twumasi and Logan Jaffe / September 25, 2025 [DOWNLOAD SLIDE DECK]

  • Preserving the truth through photography with Sebastián Hidalgo / August 18, 2025 [DOWNLOAD SLIDE DECK]

  • With Eviction Lab’s Juan Pablo Garnham / June 4, 2025

    TIPSHEET: Databases and resources to cover housing challenges [DOWNLOAD]

  • With Farrah Anderson of Invisible Institute and Josh McGee of Mindsite News / February 12, 2025

    TIPSHEET: Understanding and Analyzing Chicago Police TRRs [DOWNLOAD]

  • A community forum on traffic stop reform / December 7, 2024

  • A hands-on training on traffic stops, police accountability and analyzing data / August 26, 2024

  • A virtual conversation about the global impact of racial profiling in policing with journalists from Chicago and France / January 10, 2024

Upcoming Events

Media Literacy for civic life

Three workshops designed to transform everyday residents, netizens, and Documenters into critically media-literate journalists who can identify reliable sources, analyze bias, and tell local stories that connect to the whole reader / June 17, July 22, Sept. 9 / Virtual / REGISTER >>

Negotiating FOIA fees

In this webinar, veteran journalist Kimbriell Kelly will share strategies and practical tips for working with officials to lower the fees for open records / June 24 / Virtual / REGISTER >>

Using Data and Framing to Surface Responses to Systemic Harm

This one‑day solutions journalism summit brings together researchers and data journalists to help the news media move from merely documenting harm to rigorously covering responses to systemic injustice / June 26 / Medill School of Journalism, (303 East Wacker Drive, Chicago) / REGISTER >>

Writing Across Genres

Join award-winning journalist, memoirist, and novelist Dawn Turner to learn how to build a writing career across multiple genres, without losing your voice or your focus / June 23 / Virtual / REGISTER >>

Submit upcoming trainings at info@raceandequityproject.org