An Opportunity to Learn
Each year, YWCA Spokane releases a new Racial Justice Challenge designed to build awareness and provide education around racial equity and justice. The Challenge fosters personal reflection, encourages social responsibility, and motivates participants to take meaningful action in their communities.
This series is designed to help you create dedicated time in your busy schedule to build more effective social justice habits. Join us and you will deepen your understanding, challenge assumptions, and build awareness that will support your ability to engage more thoughtfully with your community.
Make the most of this experience.
What to Expect
Over ten days, registered participants will receive daily content grounded in research, local data, and community context.
Dedicate 15-60 minutes a day to digest the content and hold time to reflect and discuss these topics with friends, family, or colleagues.
This Challenge is guided throughout by a restorative framework, one focused on understanding and repairing harm rather than assigning blame.
No prior experience with racial justice topics is required. All that is needed is curiosity, a willingness to sit with difficult questions, and a commitment to showing up for each of the days of learning.
2026 Challenge This series will run for two weeks, Monday - Friday, May 11-22.
This year's Challenge examines how harmful information operates at every scale, from the narratives circulating in national media, to the assumptions we carry into everyday interactions, to the policies and systems that have been shaped by false and distorted stories about communities of color.
Participants will build practical skills for recognizing and responding to misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation, and will explore how those forms of harmful information connect to the lived experiences of Spokane's communities. Sign up below to receive access to this year's Challenge series.
Register for the 2026 Challenge
How Groups Benefit From Taking the Challenge
Whether you are part of a workplace team, a professional association, a faith community, a neighborhood group, or any other gathering of people who care about the world around them, the YWCA Spokane Racial Justice Challenge offers a structured, accessible way to learn together and to let that learning shape how you work, serve, and show up.