When people ask about my anti-racism work, I often respond with, “you mean my anti-racism life? “and I hope that in our work together, you too will embrace the life long journey.
My life's work is guided by the values of healing, accountability and action, informed by a twenty-five-year career in community mental health specializing in organizational as well as family systems, racial justice movement organizing and as a community artist.
Part of my story is about what it means to embody a life committed to interrupting oppression and because I live in white skin, how racism became the focal point of my drive for change.
My commitment is fueled by a lifetime of study in power and privilege, both formal, and informal, with wisdom drawn from many mentors. Beginning, as most stories do, in the throes of childhood and in my case, amongst artists and activists in a predominantly white town in a county that was segregated, I was raised to live with the central contradictions embedded in having privilege while envisioning and fighting for a more equitable world.
Living amongst the well-meaning, I developed a keen awareness to the subtle and insidious ways white and other forms of supremacy show up within our relationships and organizational structures, orienting me to center an analysis of power and utilize practices that offer meaningful ways to confront the disorder of inequity and tend to liberation.
Bio
My life's work is guided by the values of healing, accountability and action, informed by a twenty-five-year career in community mental health specializing in organizational as well as family systems, racial justice movement organizing and as a community artist.
Part of my story is about what it means to embody a life committed to interrupting oppression and because I live in white skin, how racism became the focal point of my drive for change.
My commitment is fueled by a lifetime of study in power and privilege, both formal, and informal, with wisdom drawn from many mentors. Beginning, as most stories do, in the throes of childhood and in my case, amongst artists and activists in a predominantly white town in a county that was segregated, I was raised to live with the central contradictions embedded in having privilege while envisioning and fighting for a more equitable world.
Living amongst the well-meaning, I developed a keen awareness to the subtle and insidious ways white and other forms of supremacy show up within our relationships and organizational structures, orienting me to center an analysis of power and utilize practices that offer meaningful ways to confront the disorder of inequity and tend to liberation.
Bio