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  • America Rows: Understanding Ourselves and Others

    June 05, 2013

    Many people are very unaware of their racial bias. This bias is called implicit bias. Implicit bias is a subtle and pervasive form of bias against members of a group, merely in virtue of their membership in that group. As opposed to explicit bias, which can consist in overtly discriminatory beliefs, actions or institutional policies.

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    Richard Butler, richard@usrowing.org

  • How to Create a Diverse Community Rowing Program

    April 30, 2013

    Boathouses across America continue to be affluent, upper middle class and white. If we want the United States to be more competitive on the world stage, we are going to need to do what many major American corporations figured out 20 years ago – become more diverse and inclusive.

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    Richard Butler, richard@usrowing.org

  • Breaking Barriers Needs Your Help

    March 05, 2013

    Breaking Barriers, an original America Rows program and USRowing organization geared towards inner-city Philadelphia youth, suffered a major setback yesterday when tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment was stolen.

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    Allison Frederick

  • My America Rows Internship

    February 07, 2013

    Sabrina Slaughter is a 17-year-old student at Delaware County Christian School. For two weeks, she interned with USRowing's America Rows initiative. Part of her project was to create a recruiting video for middle and high school students. The video can be viewed at: http://youtu.be/AA1k44rfHXU.

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    Sabrina Slaughter

  • America Rows Feature: Re-Design Rowing

    April 30, 2012

    Just take a moment and think about how much rowing has changed. One of the biggest innovations was when the megaphone attached to the head of the coxswain made way for the first Cox Box. Can you suggest other major changes? What about in other sports?

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    Richard Butler, USRowing Inclusion Manager

  • America Rows Feature: Sunday School At MIT

    March 09, 2012

    Amphibious Achievement Teaches Inner City Youth to Row and Learn The wind was whipping the waters of the Charles River into an uninviting frenzy, but because it was a mid-February Sunday morning, the chances of there being any rowers on the water were slim anyway, particularly for high school crews.

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    Ed Moran

  • A Weekend For Diversity and Fun

    July 30, 2011

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    Ed Moran

  • JLAC Rowers Persist to Reach Youth Nationals

    June 09, 2011

    High school seniors Hanna Weisenberger and Maya Robles-Wong stood next to their trailer as their teammates from Oakland Strokes worked. The rowers lifted the boats off the racks and began to rig them, getting ready for the three days of racing that were to follow at the 2011 USRowing Youth National Championships in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

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    Sean Rader, USRowing Communications Intern

  • America Rows Feature: Deep Water

    May 04, 2011

    With an affordable fee structure, financial aid for kids who can demonstrate the need, fundraising, donations and contributions from the university and the community, Deep Water is providing a program that gives high school and junior athletes from all over Stockton access to rowing.

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    Ed Moran

  • Reach Out and Row

    April 13, 2011

    The students of Joyce Kilmer Elementary School clapped and cheered as they watched the U.S. women’s eight cross the line at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The video clip of the gold medal race was just a segment of Princeton National Rowing Association’s presentation to the fifth through eighth-grade students at the school.

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    Allison Frederick

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