About

Why EmbraceRace?

EmbraceRace helps parents, caregivers, and educators raise children who are thoughtful, informed, and brave about race, especially in the birth through middle school years.

We work in three overlapping spaces:

🛠️ Everyday tools for adults: We offer evidence-based guidance on what to do and why to do it. Our Color-Brave Caregiver Framework, booklists, webinars, and toolkits turn the research on early racial learning and development into doable routines. We bring this work into homes, classrooms, museums, and faith communities.

🤝 Communities of practice: We convene learning communities where adults can listen, learn, practice, and exchange ideas and experiences. Whether it is parents of young kids of color, White parents of White kids, or early childhood educators, our members don’t just consume content. They try things, compare notes, and support one another.

🏗️ Field-building: We are working with partners to grow a field focused on how and what children learn about race and racism, and on how we can create the conditions for healthier learning. This includes our National Parent Survey, our Reflections on Children’s Racial Learning report series, and the National Convening on Children’s Racial Learning we held in Chicago and hope to organize on a regular basis.

Underneath all of it is a simple conviction:

Whatever you care about, whether democracy, public health, AI, immigration, or education, the lessons children get about race, racial identity, and racial justice are shaping it.

If you are in philanthropy, education, tech, health, or public policy and want help making early racial learning and literacy part of your strategy, let's talk.

Our Theory of Change 

Our Mission

Since 2016, EmbraceRace has supported parents, guardians, educators, and other caregivers working to raise children who are thoughtful, informed and brave about race so that U.S. multiracial democracy can thrive. We identify, organize, and create the tools, resources, discussion spaces, and networks to:

• Nurture resilience and joy in children of color
• Nurture inclusive, empathetic children of all stripes
• Raise kids who think critically about race and racial inequality
• Support a movement of kid and adult racial justice advocates for all children