Five Steps to Crafting Your Equity Lens

What is An Equity Lens?

An Equity Lens is your own personal mission statement. This statement has your vision of the world that you want for not only yourself, but for seven generations to come. Your Equity Lens is a tool that helps you see what needs to be done to build that world with those around you.

The words you craft in your Equity Lens will help guide the building of a community that hasn't yet come to fruition. With your Equity Lens, your community will stand to become more substantial in our time.

Benefits of Crafting Your Equity Lens

By Crafting Your Equity Lens, you will begin to understand that you are worthy, NOW. You are powerful because you were born, not because of what wealth you have amassed in your time here. Your humanity and the humanity of those around you will begin to grow. Growing with a true sense of compassion, empathy, grace, integrity, accountability, and unconditional love. You will see through your Equity Lens someone’s humanity first and foremost, thus allowing you to love them as you deserve to be loved.

About Matthew Reynolds

Matthew is a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant who has served over 250 individuals helping them to craft their equity lens.

Having lived in a variety of communities, countries, and demographics, Matthew has thoroughly honed his communication skills and paired them with an innate generosity toward the perspectives of others. With over 15 years as a teacher in secondary education, he’s passionate about disseminating knowledge. A focus on the performing arts has tuned his ability to reach minds and change hearts through multiple avenues of learning and processing.

Professional Awards & Recognition

• Top 5 finalist for Oregon Teacher of the Year, 2018

• Honorable Mention for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, presented by the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University, 2018

• Teacher of the Year Crater Renaissance Academy, 2009

• Awarded “Volunteer and Educator” of the year from Southern Oregon Queer Resource Center. SOU, 2006