The Undoing Racism® Internship Project (URIP) aims to collectively unite all of the NYC-based Schools of Social Work to have a stronger anti-racist, anti-oppressive lens in our curriculum. It's a massive problem that social work students are graduating with their BSWs or MSWs without fully understanding what institutionalized racism is and how it horrendously affects people of color. The Interscho
ol Council on Undoing Racism (ICUR) is a project of the Undoing Racism Internship Project, originally founded by representatives from the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, National Association of Social Workers – New York City Chapter (NASW-NYC), the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services (JBFCS), the Anti-Racist Alliance of New York (ARA-NY), and faculty from the schools of social work at Columbia University, Hunter College and Fordham University. ICUR offers foundational community organizing skills to students from the NYC schools. Community organizing skills are essential to building of the movement to undo racism. ICUR provides a space for all antiracist organizing groups, at each of the individual schools, to report on what their individual school is working on, and how others can support. ICUR also organizes events for anti-racism organizers/supporters to meet and socialize in order to create cohesion between students involved in the movement to transform social work education.
