Over the Summer of 2020, the Collective Membership of Vox Populi came together to discuss the effects and influences on or within our organization of white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, racist violence, state violence, economic inequality, and the corporate exploitation of labor, land, and environment, considering how these conditions plague the operations of the non-profit arts and culture sector more broadly. Our conversations resulted in the drafting of a 7-page Values Statement in August 2020, a document which outlines in detail our shared commitments and ambitions for making Vox Populi a more inclusive and equitable organization moving forward.

The Vox Populi Values Statement is a public document, available for PDF download, through which we seek to actively interrogate and transform our organization and its operations in an ongoing way. The document serves as a tool for guiding the choices and investments of current and future organizational leadership and membership, details specific commitments to annual anti-oppression training and conscientious decision-making, and provides a roadmap for how to hold one another accountable to the ongoing work of anti-oppression.