Runners are people of action, so whether wildcats, bumble bees, or roadrunners, there are things we as runners can act on:
** Actively recruit new charity partners for the fundraising aspect of races so that new communities get engaged with our wonderful sport;
** On social media, follow people and communities that we have not regularly followed (communities of color, adaptive athletic run clubs, and so on) with the goal of learning what other people are feeling and talking about;
** Invite a more diverse set of guest speakers to speak at our running social events;
** Hold events in new and different race locations to engage with and highlight different communities;
** Offer land acknowledgments, including by pre-race announcements and maps, to recognize that race routes take place on tribal and indigenous lands;
** Actively recruit Board members from multiple communities and different voices for strategic planning;
** Actively engage with younger runners of color so they stay in the sport after youth and high school years;
** Actively engage with the LGBT communities, perhaps including a third gender category in race registration forms;
** Actively engage with the adaptive athletic community, including additional racing categories;
** Develop a broad list of contacts so that news about upcoming events, news about needs, and news about successes can be shared across communities;
** Finally, on a personal level, we can be nice -- introduce ourselves to strangers, smile, say hello, invite people to run or walk, talk about running and life, and share this beautiful world with others.