Many efforts to promote racial equity include supporting leadership as one of their change processes. These include practices that help individuals and groups build confidence and capacity to address some of the core competencies of leadership for racial equity. These practices may include: deep understanding of racism and privilege, ways of talking about (Framing and Messaging) core concepts and opportunities to promote racial equity in ways that can be heard by various audiences, helping others align their values and behaviors as a way of promoting personal transformation that leads to action, among many others. Many individuals and groups also take risks and use their personal and organizational power and influence to promote important changes – stepping up as individual or collective leaders in racial equity work. At the same time, as noted in Leadership & Race: How to Develop and Support Leadership that Contributes to Racial Justice, “Leadershi [...]