Equity-Centered Community Design™: From Awareness to Action (Self-Paced Course)

Ready to move from talking about equity to actually designing for it?

This self-paced course is your deep dive into Equity-Centered Community Design™ (ECCD) — a creative problem-solving framework built to address inequity at its roots and foster long-term mindset shifts. Whether you’re working within a community, school, nonprofit, or corporate setting, this course will help you design more intentional, inclusive, and impactful interventions.

Throughout this course, you’ll:

Build a deeper understanding of the ECCD framework and how to apply it
Identify a real-world challenge in your organization or community and design micro-interventions addressing this challenge
Reflect on your own relationship to power and privilege, especially in connection to your audience of focus (AOF)
Practice strategies for authentically engaging your AOF throughout the design process
And, more.

🎯 Who This Is For

This course is for anyone committed to equity and systemic transformation beyond trainings to practical application - from business leaders and educators to social impact specialists to architects. Whether you’re working solo or bringing a team along, you’ll leave with tools you can use right now to spark real change.

🔗 Let’s Get Started

Join us in Equity-Centered Community Design™: From Awareness to Action — where learning meets unlearning, and where awareness becomes a launchpad for equity in action.

By the end of the Equity-Centered Community Design™: From Awareness to Action Course, learners will be able to:

Diagnose systemic inequities in their own institutions, teams, or communities by applying the Equity-Centered Community Design™ (ECCD) framework.
Identify how power, privilege, and bias show up in design, policy, and daily decision-making—and disrupt those dynamics through equity-centered strategies.
Center historically excluded voices as co-designers, not just stakeholders, by using participatory methods rooted in community-defined values.
Translate equity commitments into concrete practices, such as revising hiring processes, rethinking curricula, co-creating engagement tools, or rebuilding feedback systems.
Develop a personalized equity action plan for implementation post-workshop, including success metrics, accountability strategies, and community partnership goals.
Cultivate a reflective equity design practice that prioritizes transparency, repair, imagination, and sustained commitment over one-time interventions.

By the end of the Equity-Centered Community Design™: From Awareness to Action Course, learners will:

Apply the ECCD™ framework to a live equity challenge from their own organization, co-designing a real-time intervention with peer feedback.
Create an equity-centered accountability system for a policy, program, or process in their organization—complete with metrics and reporting pathways.
Map power dynamics and stakeholder relationships within a current or planned initiative to ensure community co-creation rather than top-down implementation.
Redesign a team or organizational practice (e.g., hiring, funding, curriculum, communication) to operationalize values of equity, trust, and transparency.
Build a prototype or framework draft (policy, engagement model, curriculum component, etc.) that reflects equity-centered design principles.
Commit to a 90-day Equity Activation Plan, including specific action steps, internal champions, and community feedback loops for sustained accountability.

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ECCD: From Awareness to Action Course (Live Instruction) - Early Bird Special

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ECCD: From Awareness to Action Course (Live Instruction) - Early Bird Special

$1,632.60 $1,814.00

Created and led by Antionette D. Carroll, one of the originators of the equity design movement, the Equity-Centered Community Design (ECCD): From Awareness to Action Course is a transformational learning experience designed for practitioners, advocates, and institutional leaders who are ready to move from theoretical awareness to embodied action.

In addition to receiving an invitation to the asynchronous ECCD course on December 1, 2025, purchasers of the Live Instruction package will receive over 12 hours of supplemental live group instruction*, a signed ECCD 1.0 field guide (with a complimentary ECCD laptop sticker), and one (1) private 30-minute conversation by the course creator Antionette D. Carroll.

*As an equity organization, the timing and duration of each live session will be co-designed by course participants. We believe in providing people with what they need when they need it, including access to live lessons. Note that the first cohort will begin live instruction in December/January. Other cohorts will be dependent on interest and availability.

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ECCD: From Awareness to Action Course (Asynchronous) - Early Bird Special

$282.60 $314.00

The ECCD course will be live on December 1, 2025. In addition to receiving an invitation to the course at the start of December, all early bird ticket holders will receive a complimentary ECCD laptop sticker.

Meet Your Instructor: Antionette D. Carroll

Visionary. Disrupter. Systems Thinker. Equity Design Pioneer.

When Antionette D. Carroll enters the room, equity work gets sharper, deeper, and more actionable.

An internationally recognized speaker, equity strategist, and one of the founding voices of the equity design movement, Antionette’s work challenges institutions to reimagine their practices—not just improve them. Her original frameworks, Equity-Centered Community Design™ and Redesigners for Justice, are used across the world to transform how systems of power engage with the communities they serve.

She’s held fellowships with TED, Aspen, Roddenberry, and Echoing Green. Her work is featured in Black Futures, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Fast Company. And she continues to advise and collaborate with institutions that are serious about disrupting cycles of harm and moving toward dignity, trust, and transformation.

Whether she's leading a workshop, designing curriculum, or guiding a full systems audit—Antionette is a voice you want in the room. Especially if you're ready to rebuild better.