About Us

We Are Finding Freedom, LLC offers workshops and tools for white women and gender expansive people to take on white supremacy both in ourselves and in the world.

We’re a private organization (not a nonprofit) and we run on workshop sales and sustainer donations. Our cross-class team includes workshop designers and facilitators, Operations Team members, and co-founders Kari Points and Evangeline Weiss. Read on for their Founder Story and check out all the team bios under Who We Are! If you have a specific question, please reach out to info@wearefindingfreedom.org or to the team leads:

• Communications Lead: Suze Bartlow, susannah@wearefindingfreedom.org

• Finance Lead: Lila Givens, lila@wearefindingfreedom.org

• Movement Leads: Kari Points, kari@wearefindingfreedom.org; and Evangeline Weiss, evangeline@wearefindingfreedom.org

• Operations Lead: Dani Rae Wilson, dani@wearefindingfreedom.org

• Practice S.P.A.C.E. peer facilitator Debra East, debra@wearefindingfreedom.org

• Practice S.P.A.C.E. peer facilitator Anna Sommo, anna@wearefindingfreedom.org

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Founder Story

We are Kari Points and Evangeline Weiss. We’re the founders of We Are Finding Freedom. We have spent more than 40 years combined as white queer people working with communities, individuals and organizations that center racial, gender and economic justice. Through We Are Finding Freedom, we have experienced the incredible power of movement building and collective action.

Our work is steeped in gratitude for the leadership and expertise of the queer black women who founded Black Lives Matter and many other liberatory organizations and groups, and the powerful frameworks we have learned through them: emergent strategy, cross-generational work, radical hospitality, somatics grounded in Southern experience, collective liberation, and community care. We enjoy a good porch sit - virtual or in person.

We felt the raw truth of white supremacy and patriarchy in what we saw emerge in the winter of 2016. In particular, we keenly felt the role white women played in the election of President Trump that year. We recalled that white women are socialized to protect, benefit from and smooth over the effects of both white supremacy and patriarchy. We got angry about what was and is being done in our name. And we were inspired to act by the Southern white woman activist Anne Braden.

We both have extensive experience facilitating white anti-racist caucus spaces, and both of us are queer and feminists. We felt it was our responsibility to heed the call from 60+ years of Black leaders to work directly with our own white people. We chose to focus on working with white women and genderqueers for racial and gender justice. And in 2017 we launched our first course, Finding Freedom: White Women Taking On Our Own White Supremacy. To date, more than 500 white women and genderqueer people have participated in the Finding Freedom workshop.

In 2020, the world broke open with the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The uprising that followed included many white women and genderqueer people who wanted to join the growing movement. In response to the desire to work with as many of these new activists, we formed an LLC called We Are Finding Freedom. The goal of the LLC is to support our expanding workshop and event offerings, which give more white women and genderqueers an on-ramp to building movements for racial justice, particularly in their own white communities.

We’ve continued to see the need to engage white women in dialogue about collusion with white supremacy and patriarchy. In 2021, we expanded our facilitation team to offer a wider array of Finding Freedom courses. We’ve also designed and launched new courses like The YES Lab, Stumbling Towards Wholeness: A Workshop for White Jewish Women, and Seeing the Forest: Reckoning with Our Roots for a Racially Just Future.