Action: Diversity is the practice of valuing the spectrum of interconnected identities and ways of being as an intrinsic asset within CDRW and across the watershed, with particular emphasis on marginalized identities.

Result/Vision: A Coalition that reflects, integrates, and celebrates the spectrum of identity and thought present in the Watershed.

Action: Equity is the practice of addressing inherited ecological debt* and the roots of disparities in marginalized communities to ensure access to environmental benefits as a priority of our advocacy efforts. Within CDRW, equity is addressing structural and cultural barriers to create the foundation needed for justice and ensure all voices, especially marginalized communities and identities, are centered. Equity infuses an understanding that environmental efforts do not automatically benefit everyone and must be crafted intentionally to address outcome disparities.

Result/Vision: A Coalition that actively centers marginalized communities and identities, maintaining the structure and culture necessary to address and prevent outcome disparities. Equity brings together diversity and inclusion, ultimately serving as the vehicle for justice.

Action: Inclusion is the practice of intentionally creating a culture and structure where individuals, members, and communities experience belonging, can be their authentic self. It requires cultivating and applying intentional behaviors based in understanding the impact of power and privilege. It means challenging frameworks, removing blind spots, reimagining operations, and creating space for different ways of thinking.

Result/Vision: A Coalition that effectively supports diversity and innovation by sustaining a culture and structure where individuals, members, and communities experience belonging, respect, and consideration. Each person is able to bring their authentic selves and are valued for their unique identities and perspectives. Spaces, events, community, and conversations are intentional, with the needs of varying identities considered and accommodated. Members demonstrate advanced skill in considering and integrating the needs of identities beyond their own.

Action: Justice is the practice of taking direct action to repair current and a legacy of systemic environmental degradation which has disproportionately impacted communities and identities most marginalized within society.

Result/Vision: A Watershed where environmental degradation is greatly reduced, equity is applied to environmental burdens and benefits, environmental injustices and the systems causing them are remedied, and a better future is actively invested in. Working with marginalized communities to achieve Environmental Justice benefits is central to the goal of a healthy, protected Watershed.