Careers
The Haywood Burns Institute (BI), a national nonprofit with an intergenerational, cross-cultural team of bold visionaries, works to transform the administration of justice and other human services sectors. Always challenging racial hierarchy and the social control of communities of color by the justice sector and other public systems, BI employs strategies and tactics to establish a community-centered approach of justice administration anchored in structural well-being.
BI uses the term Structural Well-Being strategically, as it represents a reimagined system of public policies, institutional and inclusive practices, cultural representations, and other norms that work to strengthen families, communities, and individual well-being for positive life outcomes. This notion is in direct contrast to the nation’s current operational framework of structural racism.