Chicago, IL

Since 2009, Crossroads has been doing place-based organizing in the Metro Chicago Region through a program known as Chicago Regional Organizing for Antiracism (Chicago ROAR). We partner with Chicago-based partners to transform institutional cultures through organizing, building, and equipping, so the organizations may develop policies and practices promoting racial justice. Chicago ROAR envisions fully inclusive, equitable and life-giving institutions that partner in dismantling systemic racism and all forms of oppression in a movement that builds healthy, restorative, and sustainable communities in the Chicago Metropolitan area. Chicago ROAR emerged from over 20 years of partnership between Crossroads and Chicago-area institutions and organizations that sought to claim an antiracist identity. 

Chicago ROAR offers a variety of ways to work to dismantle systemic racism, from hourly consulting services, to introductory and in-depth workshops, to strategic planning sessions.