Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
The JEDI Committee meets regularly throughout the year along with two JEDI-focused subgroups: Community of Practice and Accountability Group meetings.
Register here to join monthly group meetings.
The urgent need to equitably adapt to climate change necessitates the removal of oppressive systems and requires a transformation into a society where we all share in the power and prosperity of resilient economic and social systems. To advance those required transformations ASAP members coalesced to form the Justice Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion [JEDI] Committee.
The functions of the ASAP JEDI Committee are to:
- Work on integration of JEDI into adaptation, instead of as add-on
- Extend JEDI to the larger adaptation world
- Provide education, outlet and implementation opportunities and support for ASAP members
- Provide JEDI sounding-board and “check-up” for staff and the ASAP organization
As part of our JEDI Statement, ASAP is committed to:
- Using our power to achieve necessary transformational change
- Deconstructing barriers in our membership structure and engagement model to become more inclusive and accessible
- Supporting all frontline communities developing adaptation resources from their lived experience and traditional knowledge
- Ensuring that adaptation resources are accessible and welcoming to all communities
- Lifting up stories of and empowering leadership from communities and critical areas of adaptation practice which currently are poorly represented in adaptation leadership.
Fall 2024 Update
The JEDI Leadership Team and ASAP staff will be hosting monthly special sessions from September to November 2024 to reconvene the JEDI membership groups after a pause in programming. The individual focus groups (i.e., Community of Practice and Accountability Group) and quarterly meetings will begin again in the new year.
All are welcome to join the monthly meetings! Register here to join.
Sep 26, 2024 | 12-1:30pm ET
This meeting will be a space for staff and members to gather and share recent experiences within ASAP as we strive to embody and advance JEDI principles within the organization. A guided art journaling activity will encourage us to go deeper by exploring personal roles as justice leaders and allies.
Oct 21, 2024 | 12-1:30pm ET
Recent storms, such as Helene and Milton making landfall in the US, have highlighted the many ways in which people and their communities are disproportionately impacted by weather events. This meeting will provide space to discuss your experiences, learn about your successes, and concerns about re-thinking community resilience through a lens of climate justice.
Nov 21, 2024 | 12-1:30pm ET
We will close out this year with a targeted discussion of current accountability strategies for ASAP as a staff and organization. This discussion will focus on iterative processes, transparent metrics, and how to reinvigorate the JEDI groups to be grounded and actionable.
Questions? Contact Geoffrey Habron at habrong@
The JEDI Committee meets regularly throughout the year along with two JEDI-focused subgroups. See below for more details on Community of Practice and Accountability Group meetings. Below are the schedules to be resumed in 2025.
Community of Practice meetings are held monthly on the fourth Friday of each month at 3:00pm ET.
Join this space to discuss implementing JEDI into your work. Through open communication, we will share challenges and success stories. We welcome all who are interested in participating consistently in the Community of Practice to join.
Accountability Group meetings are held the second Wednesday of each month at 12:30pm ET
This group acts as a sounding board for ASAP Staff and members to ensure that our work holds up and celebrates our JEDI Commitments.
Because of the JEDI Committee ASAP anticipates being more capable of fulfilling the commitments set out in the April 2020 JEDI Statement which include:
- Using our power to achieve necessary transformational change
- Deconstructing barriers in our membership structure and engagement model to become more inclusive and accessible
- Supporting all frontline communities developing adaptation resources from their lived experience and traditional knowledge
- Ensuring that adaptation resources are accessible and welcoming to all communities
- Lifting up stories of and empowering leadership from communities and critical areas of adaptation practice which currently are poorly represented in adaptation leadership.
Current Work
For more information:
- Navigate to your ASAP Member Portal
- On the right hand side menu click "Update my profile"
- Scroll to "ASAP Opportunities" and check "JEDI Committee" under "Member Led Interest Groups & Member Advisory Groups"