Staff Advancing Diversity & Inclusion Committee (SADI)

Welcome to the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Staff Advancing Diversity & Inclusion (SADI) Committee website!

SADI’s goal is for this website to become Medical School staff’s one-stop resource for DEI events, development opportunities, content, and more. We will continue to update this website with the most current collection of Medical School, University, and community content and resources for staff. 

Our hope is to help normalize and support an atmosphere where continuous growth and development is encouraged for staff. The opportunities, tools, and resources we provide are to inform, aid and guide your efforts in advancing these complex and ongoing conversations, progress your own personal DEI journey, as well as develop skills and find guidance in elevating DEI initiatives within your team and department to help us all work towards better serving our campus community and beyond. 

About SADI & History

The Staff Advancing Diversity and Inclusion (SADI) Committee was created in 2015 as a grassroots effort when a group of Medical School staff recognized a need for DEI opportunities focused on staff, a sometimes-overlooked group between faculty and students. Since 2017, SADI has hosted various workshops and dialogue circles for staff on how to become a better ally, recognize implicit bias and microaggressions, understand privilege and advance racial equity, confront ableism and sexual harassment.

In recent years, we have gained substantial momentum both in the growth of our committee as well as the initiatives we are undertaking. To find out more about our current initiatives, navigate to the “Mission & Initiatives” tab!