Work with Us
How can WILD support Community Organizations?
WILD leverages the legal expertise and resources of Twin Cities Diversity in Practice (TCDIP) lawyers and Members to support community organizations. Our membership base of 80 law firms and corporate legal departments can provide you with access to volunteer attorneys and legal professionals who are ready to partner with you in our shared mission to eradicate anti-Black racism. WILD supports organizations with community educational programming, nonpartisan legislative and policy research, and organizational support.
Learn More
WILD Pillars of Support
WILD provides works under our four program areas through these pillars of support.
Educational Programming
WILD hosts and supports educational programs to inform the public and the legal industry of ongoing issues that affect Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. WILD regularly hosts WILD Conversations, which invite experts, leaders, and community members to discuss pressing issues specific to the Twin Cities and Minnesota. Here are a few examples of our past work:
- WILD partnered with the Minnesota Justice Research Center (MNJRC) to produce an educational webinar to understand the state consent decree process, featuring the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.
- WILD hosted a series of conversations with over twelve community leaders from varied perspectives to better understand the hotly debated 2021 Minnesota ballot initiative that would have eliminated the Minneapolis Police Department and replaced it with a new Department of Public Safety.
Nonpartisan Legislative and Policy Research
WILD provides nonpartisan legislative and policy research related to our four program areas: Voting Rights; Education Equity; Economic Justice; and Community Safety, Healing, and Justice. Volunteer attorneys gather information about the current policy landscape locally and nationally, analyze the issue, and write policy memos and briefs.
If your organization is doing policy work in one of our program areas, contact WILD@diversityinpractice.org to get more information about how we can support you.
Organizational Support
WILD provides organizational support to facilitate community engagement and outreach on issues that directly impact Black and other communities of color in Minnesota and nationally. WILD can help your organization distill complex ideas into digestible communication pieces. For example:
WILD partnered with The Minnesota State Bar Association to organize small-group, identity-specific listening sessions for legal professionals with licensed mental health professionals to process ongoing racial trauma.
WILD hosted consent decree listening sessions and conducted community outreach related to the Minnesota Department of Human Rights investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department.
Volunteer with WILD!
WILD envisions communities free of anti-Black racism and all forms of racism. Working within an anti-racist framework, WILD provides direct support to community-based organizations and coalitions that are already doing the important work to make the Twin Cities more equitable. The work of creating more racially equitable and just communities fall on all of us. Make a difference today and volunteer with WILD in one of our four program areas:
|
|
|
|
Healing, and Justice |
