Storytelling with data: A Policy Brief and a Teaching Guide — This document has a dual purpose. It is written as a policy brief, using real data on racism and inclusion to highlight gaps between optimism, trust, and lived experience. At the same time, it serves as a teaching guide, showing step by step how graphs and infographics can be created in Python and then transformed into storytelling devices. The combination allows readers not only to understand the findings, but also to learn the methods behind them—so that the same tools can be applied in other contexts of social decision-making.