White People Challenging Racism: From Talk to Action - Part 2 *Online* *NEW*

In WPCR Part 2, we’ll expand upon the groundwork laid in Part I, as we focus on action plans to dismantle systemic racism in our communities. Because the focus is on action plans, participants are expected to have an action plan in hand. These can be from Part 1, or new action plans they have identified. This workshop is highly participatory and includes 2-3 hours of reading and reflection assignments between sessions and work with an accountability partner. If it has been some years since you took WPCR, if you do not have an action plan clearly in mind, or you are hoping for an experience like Part I, we suggest that you consider taking Part I again. Prerequisite: WPCR Part I.
Co-facilitators: Jane Allen, Jennifer Yanco

For White People Challenging Racism - Part 1 offered in January see https://ccae.org/classes/offering/1235/white-people-challenging-racism-moving-from-talk-to-action-part-1-online

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With the encouragement of CCAE’s Tracy Gibbs, Jennifer developed and facilitated the first White People Challenging Racism: Moving from Talk to Action workshop series at CCAE in the fall of 1999, mentoring new facilitators who have taught the workshop at various venues and who, in turn, have
mentored other new facilitators, in a continuing process of renewal and change. Jennifer grew up in the Pacific Northwest and spent much of the 70s and 80s in Africa — first as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Niger, experiences which forever changed her perspective on herself, the US, and the world. In the 90s she was on the staff of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves, and from 2003 until 2018, served as the US director of the West African Research Association. Her book, Misremembering Dr. King: Revisiting the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., was published in January 2014. Jennifer is a long-time resident of Medford.

Jane Appleyard Allen has been co-facilitating WPCR since 2015. She is active in racial justice work in her community as a member of the groups Fighting for Black Lives in our Neighborhood and Reparations for Melrose. With Reparations for Melrose, Jane has contributed to the development of a reparations toolkit that can be used by cities and towns across Massachusetts to develop a harms report, by documenting racial inequities in school discipline, teacher representation, arrests, and home loans.