0364 - Disrupting anti-Blackness in Communities of Color

Employee Training

Course Description

The anti-racism space often-times operates in a Black and White Binary, often times erasing the fact that BIPOC are complicit in upholding and perpetuating the systems of White supremacy and anti-Blackness. This interactive workshop will explore how the systems of whiteness and anti-Blackness exist within communities of color. Participants of this workshop will think critically about how the system of anti-Blackness shows up within their own communities of color and will explore strategies that help disrupt anti-Blackness and White supremacy. This conversation will encourage participants to stand in solidarity with Black Americans and engage in cross-racial allyship. This workshop would benefit anyone who is committed to disrupting the system of anti-Blackness, but the conversation and activities will be tailored to equip BIPOC with the skills and knowledge that can help begin disrupting anti-Black racism within the institutions, families, and communities they are a part of.

Learner Outcomes

To understand the pervasive system of anti-Blackness
To examine whiteness as a social construction
To explore ways that BIPOC perpetuate systems of racism
To learn strategies to help disrupt the system of anti-Blackness and stand in solidarity with Black colleagues, students, neighbors, and friends.

Notes

This workshop will be facilitated by Cindu Thomas-George. Cindu Thomas-George is a cultivator of inclusion and a disrupter of injustice. As the Founder and Principal Trainer of Shakti Diversity and Equity Training, she specializes in desiging and leading professional development experiences that promote inclusion, equity, antiracism, and intercultural intelligence. Cindu is also an award winning tenured professor of Communication Studies at the College of Lake County specializing in Intercultural Communication and Public Speaking and is currently partnering with Northwestern University’s Kellogg School for Nonprofit Management, teaching and coaching on the topic of inclusive leadership. Her passion and commitment for this work extends beyond her career. Cindu is a co-founder of the Chicago Women’s Leadership Accelerator, a leadership development conference dedicated to increasing representation of women in leadership roles. She also actively volunteers and is a co-founder of the South Asian Solidarity Movement and Malayalees for Social Justice and a board member of The Privilege Institute.