Empowering people in the struggle to create and sustain racially, culturally and linguistically integrated schools and communities.
Mission Statement
One Nation Indivisible tells stories about, connects and mobilizes people who are building and sustaining racially, culturally, linguistically and economically integrated schools, social institutions and communities in the United States.
One Nation Indivisible’s Work
Our stories provide a vital, vibrant counter-narrative to the exclusion that is evident in American classrooms, neighborhoods, workplaces and other institutions. America’s current trend of growing racial isolation leads to widening economic inequalities and policies that ostracize and criminalize immigrants. Using a variety of media in a variety of venues, One Nation Indivisible will move a different, more optimistic and, we believe, more truly American story into the nation’s consciousness and public discourse. These are stories about inclusion and community building, about people facing and winning victories together.
One Nation Indivisible does more than tell stories. It connects the educators, parents, organizers, planners and students engaged in integration work to the people and organizations working on integration policy, litigation, research and advocacy. This new connection makes each group – the people on the ground and the people advancing policy change – more powerful and effective.
This is how we do our work:
- We visit, study and then produce narratives (short video & written materials) about people and places striving toward integration.
- We disseminate these stories in a variety of forms and venues.
- We organize and host conferences and strategic planning sessions that connect people who are bucking the segregation trend on the ground both to each other and to the established network of thinkers in the academy, strategists, litigators and advocates who advance policies and practices designed to create and support integration. Our events enable people to learn from each other and develop concrete plans that strengthen integration efforts at the local, state, regional and national levels.