This weekend, I began a workshop series that I’m facilitating for white people who are working to undo unconscious racism (my teaching/coaching will be coupled with independent racial affinity group work guided by the framework in Ruth King's book, Mindful of Race). This 8-month commitment is by donation only and 100% of funds raised are being funneled directly to organizations directed/spearheaded by BIPOC and in support of justice, equity, and change.

As an individual, I am not often able to make great financial contributions to individuals and organizations I wish to support. So, I am deeply humbled to be able to use my education, understanding, and capacity to coach individuals through awareness-based work to raise Consciousness and open the door AND, as a result of the contributions of the 30 people who are stepping in and stepping up:

- I have donated $1000 directly to Duron Chavis and his food justice work here in RVA.

- Another $1000 donated to Peter Paul Development Center - an incredible organization with the mission to Educate the Child, Engage the Family and Empower the Community right here in Richmond's East End (since 1979)

- The final $1000 has been donated to the National Black Food & Justice Alliance a coalition of Black-led organizations, developing Black leadership, supporting Black communities, organizing Black self-determination, and building institutions for Black food sovereignty & liberation.

I invite you to engage with Ruth King’s incredible work and to learn about and contribute to these incredible people & organizations in support of the powerful work that they are doing. 

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So many of you have reached out to me and expressed similar feelings and experiences as white people seeing and wrestling with racial injustice, inequity, and how to best show up in this work. You are having new recognitions, new clarity, new heartbreak. It is so important to root down into that newness, into the energy that has recently been tapped, so that you can stay grounded in change.

I feel grateful that I am in a place to be able to support you all in this critically important work of uncovering and working with unconscious (or conscious) bias and conditioning that is based in white supremacy ideology. Not one of us is free of it, though we all sit somewhere on a spectrum of varying degrees.

For anyone interested in either participating in the "Undoing Unconscious Racism" workshop series or in having me bring it to your organization, work place, or community, please let me know.