Advocates and Allies

Advocates & Allies

The Advocates and Allies are a community of faculty, graduate students, and staff who strive to reduce inequity and bias at Indiana University Bloomington, with a focus on gender and its intersection with other minoritized identities. We also seek to reduce the burden of this work on our minoritized colleagues, and to that end, the leadership team is largely composed  of men who want to affect change.

Upcoming Events

Workshops

The Advocates & Allies group has developed numerous workshops to encourage stronger allyship at IUB and beyond. These sessions have been presented to the broad IU community as well as presented (by request) to departments and offices.  

  • Intro to Bias
  • Beyond Bias: Bystander Intervention 
  • Better Allies & Co-Conspirators 
  • Common Traps in Allyship 
  • Community Talkback sessions 
  • Graduate Student Professional Development Seminar 
  • Coffee & Conversation series 

We offer in-person workshops as well as asynchronous workshop modules. If you’d like to request a presentation for your office or department, email aaequity@iu.edu

Our Mission

Advocates & Allies believes that change is affected by raising awareness of gender equality at IUB through education and recruitment of a wide- ranging community of allies. 

  • Collaborate with other offices to advocate for gender 
  • Create a network of allies, particularly focusing on IUB men, and educate them and ourselves about gender equality
  • Recruit and educate a wide network of allies, with particular encouragement of men to become allies to women 
  • Recognize one’s privilege and use it to affect change 
  • Engage in proactive activities that foster a welcoming climate 
  • Promote equality in the hiring/recruitment and retention of faculty, staff, postdocs and graduate students. 
  • Promote the recognition of women’s accomplishments 

 

How to participate in our ally pledge

The Ally Pledge is designed to support you in reflecting on and deepening your understanding of gender equality on campus. It encourages you to take concrete actions as an ally and to promote more action-based allyship on campus.

This pledge is open only at the beginning of the semester. Those who take the pledge will be listed on theSee our local allies” page for the respective academic year. At the end of each semester, ally pledgers will be invited to a roundtable meeting which aims to foster cross-campus conversation and collective learning of allyship.  

Become an ally at IUB by taking this action pledge. Learn about its purpose and how it works.   

Ally Pledge Form

Facilitation

We offer a unit/department-based semi-structured workshop. This program aims to offer a transformational learning environment for men, encouraging them to partake in creating an institutional climate that supports the advancement of women faculty and staff and other underrepresented groups on campus. The program offers a cross-campus network of male Allies and enable them to foster an institutional culture for gender equality. The facilitation is led by male advocates. We accept facilitation requests in the Fall and deliver the facilitation in the Spring semester.  

Request A&A Facilitation for your unit/department! For more information and facilitation request, please contact us at aaequity@iu.edu