“Equity is the measured experience of individual, interpersonal, and organizational success and well-being across all stakeholder populations and the absence of discrimination, mistreatment, or abuse for all. Equity is achieved by eliminating structural barriers resulting from historical and present-day inequities and meeting individuals’, groups’, and organizations’ unique needs.”

- DEI Deconstructed by Lily Zheng

"The achievement of an environment that all stakeholders, especially underserved and marginalized populations, trust to be respectful and accountable.

Inclusion is achieved through actions that explicitly counter present-day and historical inequities and meet the unique needs of all populations."

- DEI Deconstructed by Lily Zheng

“Anti-racism is a proactive approach aimed at identifying, challenging, and dismantling systems, structures, and ideologies that perpetuate racial discrimination and inequality.

Unlike mere non-racism, which passively opposes racism, anti-racism actively seeks to confront and eradicate racial biases, prejudices, and injustices.”

- The Oxford Review

"Liberation is an ongoing process and practice of self-governance, accountability, responsibility, and transparency with oneself and within one’s community.

It requires ongoing acknowledgement of oppression in all its forms and on all levels of society, reparations, meaningful reconciliation directed by those targeted by oppression, and transformational changes on personal, positional, institutional and systemic levels of society."

- The Anti-Oppression Network