Imagining Just and Equitable Workplaces

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Inspiring an imagination for change is one of the hardest things to accomplish in the classroom. My students are brilliant at understanding social problems. They can connect causes of inequality across the globe and analyze how the past informs the present. However, it is hard for them, and sometimes me, to see beyond a slightly better version of the status quo when it comes to figuring out how justice and equity might work.

When we don’t go far enough in our imagination of what could be...