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Building a Connected, Inclusive Community in Chicagoland.
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About the Chicagoland DEI Alliance.
The Chicagoland Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) Alliance is a practitioner-focused, non-partisan collaborative that views DEI and inclusive social change as a business and societal imperative. The DEI sector must work to align itself definitionally, strategically, and in its vision to be effective and engage the opportunities before us all toward an equal society. The DEI landscape is ever-changing and fractured, and the Alliance serves as a leveling and empowering space for people and ideas toward community engagement, innovative strategies, and educational advocacy.
The Chicagoland DEI Alliance is a collaborative launched in 2018 and, powered by Justice Informed, relaunched in 2025 with a new mission and vision that reflects the emergent and complex challenges that the ideas and strategies of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion face in the corporate and nonprofit sectors as well as the need for community and strategic support that professional DEI practitioners require amid unprecedented attacks and consistent confusion about how to ensure American workplaces and society attain inclusion and equality as a promise to workforces and communities.
Chicagoland DEI Alliance members believe in the power of DEI to positively transform workplaces and society. They come from different organizations, sectors, ideologies, and backgrounds, but through a diversity of ideas and methodologies, our roundtables, meetings and events bring the complexities of our work together to sharpen and find better solutions for our respective organizations, clients, and communities.