• Bias: Prejudice; an inclination or preference, especially one that affects fair judgment. ​​

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• Equality: A concept of sameness that assumes everyone should be treated in the same way regardless of differences.

• ​Equity: A concept of fairness that assumes that those with different needs should receive different levels of treatment.

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• Explicit Bias: Biases that we are aware of and are expressed directly.

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• Historically Marginalized: Groups of people who throughout the past have been discriminated against and denied certain opportunities that people of other groups have had.
  
  
• Implicit Bias: Biases that are part of our subconscious, activated involuntarily, and expressed indirectly.

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• Individual Racism: Our personal generalizations, stereotypes, and biases about people because of their race.
  
  
• Institutional Racism: The policies, practices, and procedures that work better for white community members than for community members of color.
  
  
• People of color: For the purposes of the communication on this website, this category refers to people who are non-white.

• Structural Racism: The system of policies, practices, and procedures that work together and sustain one-another to create and reinforce disparate outcomes across races.