Our Allies
2020 Ally Resource Group Members
We asked team members to take and share the Harvard Research Implicit Test so we can all be personally reflective on our own biases as we educate our peers, family, friends and colleagues. It also educates & provides our community allyship tools — readings, research & reflections on what it means to be an ally.
Allies are critically important to ensuring a safe environment for all.
Our hope is that our profiles shine a light on the work of inclusion — while celebrating diversity and the people in the Berkshire Bank family.
The Ally employee resource group is a space for any interested employee to learn how to be a better ally to traditionally marginalized or under-represented groups. Allies are people who recognize the inherent privilege they receive from society’s patterns of injustice and systemic biases and take responsibility for becoming educated and changing these patterns.
The goal of this ERG is to help the our employees be better allies by learning about the issues affecting groups, working collaboratively with these other groups to strategize through educational programming, reviewing corporate communication efforts — having collaborative calls with other resource groups to educate and hold each other accountable, elevating important topics to employees and management, and organizing celebratory events.
Allies can include men who work to end gender bias, white people who work to end racism, heterosexual people who work to end injustices that emerge from a hetero-normative culture, heterosexism, able-bodied people who work to end ableism, and so on.
