Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
The City of Redlands recognizes the importance of community engagement with Redlands’ stakeholders to ensure the City’s initiatives are properly communicated to them. Moreover, the City recognizes the importance stakeholders play in the development of these initiatives to ensure the City’s vision not only aligns with the vision of the community, but also where diversity, equity and inclusion are key considerations in the development of truly impactful initiatives. It is only through this collaboration that stakeholders can ensure the City is not only hearing the needs and wants of the community, but also that the City is implementing policies that promote the Redlands where its residents desire to live and work and are treated as equals.
Human Relations Commission
The Human Relations Commission was established to foster peaceful relations among persons of different races and national origins. This commission serves in an advisory capacity to the City Council and to aid the City in achieving better human relations by providing assistance to all persons or groups in promoting good will and better relations among all people.
The Human Relations Commission meets on the second Monday of March, June, September, and December at 6:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers.
DEI Training
On Wednesday, June 22, 2022, City management staff participated in the first in a series of quarterly Diversity, Equity and Inclusion trainings facilitated by Dr. Shindale Seale from Seade Coaching and Consulting.
The two-hour DEI 101 session explored the numerous accounts of exclusion throughout history and how these acts have impacted us today. This was followed by the second training of the series on September 28, 2022, Unconscious Bias and the third training January 25, 2023, on Understanding and Mitigating Microaggressions.
The fourth and final session took place on April 19, 2023 (Creating Psychological Safety).
City Council Policies
The City Council has adopted proclamations and resolutions in support of diversity, equality, and inclusion in Redlands.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the A.K. Smiley Library is presenting the following:
Presentation by Dr. Kathy Feely: “Securing the Vote: Women’s Suffrage in the IE and Across the Nation”
March 27, 2025, 4:00pm-5:00pm in the Assembly Room at A.K. Smiley Library
Dr. Feeley is a historian whose interdisciplinary teaching and research focuses upon media, gender, and popular and political culture in modern America. She is author of Mary Pickford: Hollywood and the New Woman (2016), which uses the life and times of early Hollywood’s most important female celebrity, entrepreneur, and philanthropist to explore the possibilities and problems of life an emerging American empire. Feeley is co-editor (with Jennifer Frost) of When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in American History (2014), an anthology that traces the meanings and functions of gossip across four centuries of American life, culture, and politics, from the New England witchcraft crisis to the antebellum black press to the post-World War II Cold War blacklist to the twenty-first-century vlogosphere. Her work has also appeared in American Studies, Jewish History and Culture, History Compass, and Reviews in American History. She serves on the board of trustees of the Watchorn Lincoln Memorial Shrine—a Civil War-era library, museum, and archive—at A.K. Smiley Library in Redlands and as a co-coordinator of the Los Angeles History and Metro Studies Group of the Huntington-USC Institute for California and the West.
New Exhibit at the Lincoln Memorial Shrine
Come see the Lincoln Memorial Shrine’s new exhibit, “That All Men are Created Equal: Slavery in America.” Featuring selections from the Shrine’s extensive collections, including its newly acquired “Slavery in America Collection,” the exhibit examines enslavement in the United States. The Lincoln Shrine is located at 125 W. Vine Street. The museum is open Tuesdays-Sundays, 1pm-5pm. Visit www.lincolnshrine.org for additional information.
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