
Shaping Praxis is a curated collection of influential books and podcasts that have shaped the REDI team’s approach to justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization, and Indigenization. These pivotal works offer insights, tools, and inspiration for advancing meaningful change in education, medicine, healthcare, and beyond.
Books

An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence
by Abigail J. Stewart and Virginia Valian

Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does
by Susan Fowler

Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
by Shawn Ginwright

Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
by James M. Lang

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
by bell hooks

Wayi Wah: Indigenous Pedagogies
by Jo Chrona

Inclusive Nudges: A Guide to Achieving Behavioral Change for Diversity and Inclusion
by Lisa Kepinski and Tinna Nielsen

Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t
by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev

Re-Storying Education: Decolonizing Your Practice Using a Critical Lens
by Carolyn Roberts

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
by Marshall B. Rosenberg

The Little Book of Restorative Justice
by Howard Zehr
Podcasts

Green Dreamer podcast with Kamea Chayne
Sophy Banks: Grief tending and collective pathways to healing justice
adrienne maree brown: Sowing seeds of love in our “garden of ideas”

Upstream podcast with Della Duncan and Robert Raymond
Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness w/ Da’Shaun Harrison

ReThinking podcast with Adam Grant
Beyond breaking the glass ceiling with Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female prime minister
Overcoming loneliness with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
