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News: • View our special report: Spurred to Action: Voices of Participants in “White People Challenging Racism: Moving From Talk to Action” • Upcoming classes: a d Spring - Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 42 Brattle Street, Cambridge. Starting April 8. Five Monday sessions, 6-8 pm. 617-547-6789. Facilitators: Stephen Pereira and Xochi Kountz. $30 plus $6 registration fee covers all 5 sessions and materials. Questions? email Barbara Beckwith at 617-868-3143 or email BeckwithB@aol.com. Facilitators: Xóchitl (Xochi) Kountz is a mental health counselor in private practice. She began to recognize white privilege and racism while taking a course in Identity Development. Her graduate research on privilege and oppression in relation to sexual trauma survivors led her to recognize her own white privilege and participation in systemic racism and oppression of people of color. She spent many years working in conjunction with the Department of Mental Health, doing home-based family therapy with children with mental illnesses and their families. She lives north of Boston. Stephen Pereira was born in Boston currently lives in Brockton. After 32 years as an Arlington Public Schools administrator, he is now the President of Massachusetts Partnership for Diversity in Education and an adjunct faculty member of Empowering Multi-cultural Initiatives (EMI). He formerly served President of the METCO Directors Association and is one of the longest-standing members of the Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) Board of Directors. He holds a BA from Boston College and an M.Ed, from Antioch University. He identifies as a person of color and as 2nd generation Cape Verdean American. Other info and publications: Our founding member Jennifer Yanco gave the keynote address at the University of New England in Maine, as part of their Diversity Lecture Series, entitled, “Privilege, Power & Politics.” You can read a PDF of the speech here. Articles about WPCR: Final Call wrote a small article about our class and Community Change. The Alewife newsletter interviewed WPCR co-facilitators Jennifer Yanco, Barbara Beckwith and Lisa Graustein. WPCR was mentioned in an article in the Boston Globe about white groups talking and acting against racism. • Are you an alum of the class? Join our alum Yahoo group! |
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White People Challenging Racism (WPCR) workshops are the ongoing project of a group committed to building a racially just society through working with other white people. WPCR provides the information, skills, and confidence necessary for white people to do something about racism, and to gain the racial self-awareness needed for genuine participation in multiracial communities. Our five-part workshop consists of weekly two-hour meetings over the course of five weeks. Workshops are led by pairs of facilitators utilizing readings, exercises, discussion, and real world assignments to build participants’ skills and confidence in confronting racism. Since 1999, the course has drawn more than 500 participants, ages 13 to 81, from a wide spectrum of backgrounds. Initially developed (and still offered) at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education (www.CCAE.org), WPCR is offered at adult education programs and college campuses in the Boston area, and can be adapted for teachers, police, fire fighters, public servants, social service providers, and others. |
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