About REDI
The Racial Equity Data Institute (REDI) is a banner program within which collaborative consulting services are offered across three portfolios of work: assessment and evaluation, professional learning and organizational development, and strategic advising, planning and implementation. The assessment and evaluation portfolio includes administering surveys, conducting individual interviews and focus groups, and performing rigorous data analysis to identify issues of campus and workplace climate as well as opportunities for improving equity indicators and other institutional success outcomes. Program evaluation is also included in this portfolio. Professional learning includes providing informative presentations, educational workshops, and customized team building programs to 1) increase personal and professional competency, 2) improve group/organizational cohesion, and 3) strengthen professional readiness to address racial and other inequities in the workplace. Lastly, strategic advising broadly encompasses our work to assist senior institutional and organizational leaders with a critical understanding of equity-minded and anti-racist approaches to leading others, shifting organizational culture, and strategically developing and implementing more equitable policies and practices.
REDI Consulting Team
The REDI team is comprised of national network of consultants to include expert scholars, practitioners, and organizational leaders whose talent is strategically leveraged to provide various aspects of our service delivery. Each organizational partner that works with REDI is assigned a dedicated project team of consultants to deliver on an agreed upon scope of work.
Brandi Junious, MEd, LBBP, Equity Strategist and Consultant
Brandi Junious is a nationally-recognized leader on global diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across a multitude of industries, transforming multinational corporations, firms, nonprofit organizations, and local governments. Through strategic advising and management consulting, she helps senior leaders and human resource professionals live their equity mission and create more inclusive workplace cultures. Her areas of focus include strategic workforce diversity planning, pay equity analysis and remediation, DEI-centered change management, workplace culture assessment, developing and implementing equity-minded SMART goals, and the design, delivery, and facilitation of professional learning programs.
Deborah Southern, Ph.D., Equity Researcher and Consultant
Dr. Deborah Southern (she/her) is a University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow with the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and Higher Education & Organizational Change program in the Department of Education at University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Southern's work examines whiteness in education policy, practices, and routines, and imagines how organizations can potentially transform to center racial justice and equity. In particular, Dr. Southern uses research evidence to inform education leaders' design and implementation of diversity and equity initiatives, and build leaders' awareness of whiteness within their organizations.
Janice Le, M.P.P., Policy Analyst and Program manager
Janice Le has dedicated her career to promoting access, equity, and a sense of belonging in education and the workforce. As an associate at an educational equity advancement organization, Janice plays a critical role in developing and scaling high-impact policies and strategies that prioritize equitable outcomes for students most affected by structural inequities. She is a skilled project manager and co-leads projects with philanthropic, state, and intermediary partners throughout the country. With a strong background in research and policy, Janice has worked as an analyst and researcher for the University of Michigan Education Policy Initiative, The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), College Advising Corps, Alameda County Board of Supervisors, and the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout her career, Janice has demonstrated a deep commitment to promoting racial justice through successful leadership in campaigns that increase economic and educational opportunities for young people.
Katherine S. Cho, Ph.D., Equity Researcher and Consultant
Dr. Katherine S. Cho is a nationally-recognized scholar and professor whose work centers on organizations and their potential to change and transform to move closer towards social justice in their reality of maintaining systems of oppression and manifesting harm. Dr. Cho specializes in identifying opportunities for organizations to actualize their commitments to anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the face of systemic and structural challenges. This includes using research evidence to help organizations recognize the ‘mismatch’ between and their mission, vision, and values and their workplace practices, policies, and cultures.
Sy Stokes, Ph.D., Equity Researcher and Lead Consultant
Dr. Sy Stokes is a research executive for a global, nonprofit think tank and advisory group where he directs the qualitative research team in identifying solutions for advancing equity in the workplace in support of more than 100 member companies. Prior to his role in the nonprofit sector, Dr. Stokes served as a research associate at several university research centers to include positions at the University of California, Los Angeles, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California. Dr. Stokes recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan, where continues to conduct research as an Executive Research Fellow in the Campus Abolition Research Lab.
Charles H.F. Davis III, Ph.D., Founder & Director
Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III is founder and director of the Racial Equity Data Institute and has served as an equity consultant for higher education organizations for more than a decade. Dr. Davis has been a nationally-recognized expert in areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education to include recognition from the National Association of College Personnel Administrators (NASPA), American College Personnel Association (ACPA), Diverse Issues in Higher Education, the National Academy of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan. Across the three portfolios, Dr. Davis and his diverse network of expert associates have provided services to various institutions at multiple departmental, school, college- and university-wide levels to include, but not limited to, The Hammer Museum, Harvard Center on the Developing Child, UCLA School of Art and Architecture, Rancho Santiago Community College District, St. Louis Graduates Talent Hub (consortium of two dozen postsecondary institutions), the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, and Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Davis is also on the faculty in the Center for Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan and is the former Chief Strategy Officer and Director of Research for the University of Southern California (USC) Race and Equity Center. While at USC, Dr. Davis previously oversaw the overall strategic vision, development, and execution of the Center and each of its portfolios of work. Additionally, Dr. Davis previously served on the advisory board for the Center’s National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates (NACCC) and as instructional faculty for USC Equity Institutes, a national professional learning and organizational development program for cross-functional teams of college and university faculty and staff. Prior to joining USC, Dr. Davis was the founding Director of Higher Education Research and Initiatives at the Penn Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education. Dr. Davis’ strengths reside in his more than decade of experience supporting the strategic development of higher education institutions and private sector organizations, particularly through equity assessment and evaluation, professional learning, and senior-level advising. An industry leader in equity consulting, Dr. Davis has provided direct service to more than 10,000 higher education administrators, faculty, and students at nearly 100 public and private colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.