A Black-owned arts consultancy that partners with cultural organizations to maximize their performance and community relevance through access, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI).
In your exploration of these practices, you may have found a variety of ways in which people understand ADEI including diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); diversity, inclusion, and cultural equity (DICE); diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB); diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA); equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI); inclusion, diversity, equity, access, success (IDEAS); and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI). We use ADEI to frame creative justice issues that historically and continuously marginalized and oppressed communities experience when seeking to engage in the creative sector. Secondly, we use ADEI because we believe that the process of achieving creative justice begins with access, systematically and thoughtfully followed by diversity, equity, and then inclusion.