After a year where turmoil around the world promoted negative headlines and cultural divides, Real Salt Lake and Major League Soccer joined with other professional sports leagues around the country to promote racial equity and equality.
The club took these societal issues to heart and opened the conversation to all involved with the club and community with the intent to educate and understand how to make things better.
At RSL, it began with RSL Academy Director of Coaching Arnold Rijsenburg and the RSL Foundation and quickly funneled its way into a club-wide initiative. Enlisting the help of the RISE (Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality) Program, the conversation quickly spread throughout the club with all employees committed to take part in weekly educational sessions with the program in order to enact change not only for themselves at RSL, but in their communities as well.