Finding the Keys:
Antiracist Approaches to Radical Recruitment in the Arts
A workshop experience designed to give you real-life recruitment and hiring solutions.
2025 Dates | Location
Finding the Keys will be offered by request only for groups of 35 or more.
To inquire, please email meet@artEquity.org
About the Program
Finding the Keys is a workshop experience designed to give you real-life recruitment and hiring solutions that can be applied across industries. There are no excuses. This is a unique opportunity to roll up your sleeves and do the work with one of the nation's leading subject matter experts.
Led by Sharifa Johka, former Director of Equity at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and radical inclusion activist, this workshop is designed to give attendees actionable steps to successfully operationalize equity values in recruiting and hiring practices.
Sharifa Johka is a national leader in the area of active recruitment and hiring practices for diverse teams. She has used antiracist approaches to assist in identifying, selecting, and onboarding diverse candidate pools. Her recruitment strategies have been used by Fortune 100 corporations and arts organizations across the country. Her well-known call to active recruitment "Finding the Keys" has inspired new recruitment approaches and strategies for organizations around the nation.
LOGISTICS
The workshop is conducted virtually with a combination of personal reflection, small group work, and large group conversations.
ATTENDANCE
We ask that participants be fully present for all two-and-a-half hours of this training. This workshop is designed to build thematically, layering one concept after another. Missing more than a few minutes of the session will make it challenging for the individual and their co-learners.
ACCESS
Computer-generated captions are available for all programming. ASL Interpretation and/or Live Captioning is available if requested two weeks prior to the training. For other access support, please let us know at the time of registration.
TECH SUPPORT
For day-of technical support, please email meet@artEquity.org.
REGISTRATION
Registration is $175 US per person. The cost of registration goes toward facilitation fees, access services, and technical + administrative support.
Finding the Keys will be offered by request only for groups of 35 or more.
To inquire, please email meet@artEquity.org.
EXCHANGES
We are not able to offer exchanges for this program.
REFUNDS
No refunds will be issued for Finding the Keys.
Thank you to our supporters
artEquity provides the tools, resources, and training to support the intersection of art and activism. Our work is made possible in part by The Ford Foundation, the Getty Foundation, Barbara and Amos Hostetter, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the JKW Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Shubert Foundation, and a growing community of individuals and organizations across the globe.
