The Spartanburg Initiative for Racial Equity Now (SIREN) is a collective that works to embody and create a thriving community.
SIREN exists, in part, to help amplify the voices that are often excluded from the conversations that shape this city, county, and state.
Members come from all walks of life. We pride ourselves on our racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, and generational diversity.
It’s a cycle. Enter anywhere, engage anywhere that speaks to you. At the center, and part of every endeavor, is the purpose that binds us: thriving in the community.
Here’s one way the work in that circle might flow for an issue that’s an urgent topic in Spartanburg (and around the world): access to housing in neighborhoods that foster individual and community thriving.
We envision a society where the legacy and inherited systems and culture of white supremacy have been dismantled, where policy decisions and resource allocations are handled in an equitable manner, and where people of any race, ethnicity, gender, age or sexual identity feel welcomed and valued.
SIREN exists, in part, to help amplify the voices that are often excluded from the conversations that shape this city, county and state.
Members come from all walks of life. We pride ourselves on our racial, ethnic, cultural, gender and generational diversity.
We will act as a resource for BIPOC communities that are working to build their economic power and equitable access to and representation in leadership institutions.
We will take direct action to accomplish this through: