About DAIP
DAIP is a Rhode Island-based nonprofit dedicated to building belonging, advancing equity, strengthening leadership ecosystems, and creating impact across sectors and communities.
To create space for learning, collaboration, and honest dialogue around diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, leadership, and workforce advancement—and to support organizations as they operationalize inclusive practices and sustainable systems change.
A future where organizations and communities have the tools, relationships, leadership pathways, and courage to build systems where everyone can belong, thrive, and contribute.
Our Commitments
At Diversity & Inclusion Professionals (DAIP), we believe inclusion, belonging, and accessibility are fundamental to building stronger organizations, healthier communities, and more equitable systems.
Our commitment goes beyond representation. We recognize that people bring intersecting identities and lived experiences that shape how they navigate workplaces, institutions, and communities. Race, ethnicity, disability, behavioral health, socioeconomic status, language, gender, age, immigration experiences, and other historically marginalized experiences can intersect and compound barriers to opportunity, participation, and wellbeing.
Accessibility extends beyond physical accommodations. Physical, digital, communication, behavioral health, linguistic, and systemic barriers can overlap with one another and with a person’s identities. We are committed to recognizing those experiences, addressing barriers, and building environments where people are meaningfully included, heard, respected, and able to contribute.
Making meaningful participation possible through representation, access, and shared decision-making.
Creating environments where people feel valued, respected, connected, and able to shape the decisions that affect them.
Addressing physical, digital, behavioral, linguistic, and systemic barriers, including the ways overlapping identities can compound them.
Using evidence and community experiences to identify disparities, guide action, and measure progress over time.
Belonging is not simply how people feel. It is also reflected in how organizations operate, whose voices influence decisions, who can access opportunities, and whether systems support the people they serve.
DAIP puts these commitments into practice through community engagement, our Rhode Island Belonging Index, and organizational consulting services. We work with organizations and communities to understand what prevents inclusion and belonging, then develop strategies to change it in ways that can be measured and sustained.
Our Values
Meaningful change happens through relationships, collaboration, and community.
We create space for honest conversations, principled leadership, and bold action.
We center people, lived experiences, dignity, and humanity in every space we create.
We move beyond awareness toward measurable, sustainable systems change.
Kevin Matta (he, him, his) is a strategic differentiator, comfortable challenging the status quo, and brings both passion and experience to ensure client success and human engagement with his brilliant ability to make connections.
Kevin’s interest in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion work developed as he witnessed his parents encounter inequities and injustices while navigating the American healthcare and workplace landscape. His passion for this work continues to be strengthened by the systemic injustices people around the world continue to experience.
Kevin serves as president of DAIP’s board of directors.