BROADENING EDUCATION: Staff members at the Equity Institute work together in Providence. The institute is an education-based nonprofit that develops programs for teachers, administrators and the community, with a focus on creating diversity, equity, inclusion and anit-racist policies. PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM
PBN 2022 Diversity Equity & Inclusion Awards Training: Equity Institute The origins of the Equity Institute are rooted in the personal lives and barriers confronted by its co-founders and teachers Karla Vigil and Carlon Howard. “We both left the classroom, along with a few other educators, in 2017,” said Vigil, the institute’s CEO. “We didn’t…