Participant Job Description 

PRC July 2020 Meeting: Running Club Equitability
Participant Job Description 

Overview 

The Public Run Club (“PRC”) is a running community that helps womxn know, trust, and enjoy their bodies through running. 

The club’s mission is to help womxn untangle from a complicated relationship with exercise and their bodies by supporting them in engaging with the narratives they’ve received about their body and about other bodies as they train. The club’s programs are designed to invite runners to confront, challenge, and rewrite the stories of their bodies through the sport of running. 

The club is coached and managed by Karly Borden (the sole employee of the company and the sole content creator of the training programs). 

With the goal of bringing forward more BIPOC and LBGTQIA+ leaders within PRC/the running community at-large, and to ensure people with these identities feel safe and supported within PRC/the running community at-large, Karly is recruiting 6 runners to share their experiences of PRC and other running communities, and to contribute to the club’s future roadmap during an initial meeting in July 2020. Ongoing/future meetings and participation will be decided on by the 6 participants during the gathering.

With the understanding that a person’s body-relationship is shaped differently depending on the identities they hold, the club intends to continue hosting separate meetings that center the discussion on the experience of different identities. 

July’s meeting will focus on the experience of runners who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. This will be a closed meeting between Karly and the 6 runners. 

Purpose

Going forward, PRC is committed to supporting BIPOC leaders within PRC/the running community at-large, and to ensure people with these identities feel safe and supported within PRC/the running community at-large. 

The purpose of this meeting is to explore how PRC/the running community at-large can best coach, train, and support individuals in a way that centers the experiences of womxn runners of all levels and abilities who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color. We use the word womxn to include transgender, nonbinary, womxn of color, womxn with disabilities and all other marginalized genders. 

Applications will be reviewed and selected by Karly and a third party, who will prioritize applications from womxn BIPOC runners.

Key Duties

As a participant in the 3-hour July meeting, you will be invited to: 

  • Provide personal and/or professional insight and experience about PRC/running culture

  • Evaluate/assess the impact of PRC 

  • Review current training material and future program offerings/events

  • Contribute to creating a roadmap for the club’s future

In addition to the meeting, you will be asked for: 

  • 30-minutes of individual prep work including acquainting yourself with The Intuitive Runner Program (content/pricing/structure), the results of a recent PRC Poll, and PRC’s Mission & Values

  • 30-minutes of follow-up work including the completion of a survey 

Your Experience

Because the nature of this meeting is an experience-based discussion, personal or professional experience/interest in any of the following is suggested: 

  • Running/ Running clubs

  • Health/Wellness 

  • Mental Health

  • Size Inclusivity methodologies (i.e. Intuitive Eating Practices or Health at Every Size) 

  • Decolonizing Fitness/Health/Wellness

  • Writing/Editing/Research

  • Requirements: Must be able to attend the meeting as voted on by all selected members

Compensation 

Each member attending the July meeting will receive $100 to compensate for their bandwidth, expertise and/or experience, and time (for 3-hours of meeting time; 30-min prep and 30-min follow up) via Paypal on the day of the meeting. 

Future Meetings

The format/timing of future meetings will be discussed during the July meeting, and will be voted on by each participant via a follow-up survey. Each member can decide if they want to continue participating in future meetings after the July meeting. 

Submit your application here:

The application facilitates/accepts written, video, or audio applications. The application contains 13 questions and should take about 20 minutes to complete. Within the application, please provide a paragraph of 3-4 sentences or video/audio response of 1-2 minutes for your responses. 

View July Meeting Agenda here. 

Noteworthy Dates:

  • July 2020 Meeting: One 3-hour meeting in July (Date to be voted on/selected by participants)

  • Applications open on June 18th

  • Applications close on June 28th, 2020 at midnight PST

  • Participants selections will be notified on July 1st

Karly Borden