This online 5-part series of Finding Freedom will take place January 9, 23, 30, and February 6, 13, 2022 from 4:30-7:00pm ET. (Note that the workshop will not meet Jan 16 in recognition of MLK Jr Day).
Participants must attend Session 1 in order to participate in future sessions.
It's time to bring our full selves as white women into the struggle to end structural racism. The stakes could never be higher. Are you in?
How are we as white women contributing to white supremacy?
What keeps us from bringing our full selves to ending structural racism?
How can we move into action and convince other white women in our lives to do the same in our communities and at the ballot box?
Finding Freedom is a workshop that aims to deepen our individual and collective understanding of how we as white women are complicit with white supremacy, how we can make changes to live more deeply and consistently into our racial justice commitments, and how we can move ourselves and other people in our networks to join the fight for racial, economic and gender justice right now.
We use the tools of embodiment to bring our full selves--our bodies, minds and spirits--to the task of creating a new collective identity for ourselves as racial justice workers.
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All women and gender-queer, nonbinary and trans people, and all white and mixed-race folks, who are interested in exploring the intersection of white womanhood and white supremacy are welcome to join us. The categories of “white” or “woman” might not be exactly how you define yourself. This workshop may still be useful to you if you were socialized as a white female and/or you are perceived as one today.
We warmly welcome people of all class backgrounds. And we do not turn people away due to cost. We offer a sliding scale and also have limited scholarships available for people who need them.
This workshop focuses on United States history, context and current reality. Women from outside the US are welcome to join us, as long as you understand we will be using a US-based frame.
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As you're deciding what ticket to purchase, please check out our Workshop Pricing Options page.
Redistribution Rate Tickets $345: We invite middle and upper-middle-class participants to purchase tickets at this level as an act of cross-class solidarity that enables more poor and working-class people to participate. Building together as white women across class is crucial to ending white supremacy.
Full Rate Tickets $192: For currently middle-class participants. These tickets are “at cost.” They enable us to cover the expenses related to putting on this workshop.
Working Class Rate Tickets $50: For currently working-class participants only. Your perspective and life experience are invaluable.
Free Tickets $0: For currently poor participants only. If $50 is a true barrier to your participation, we invite you to register using a free ticket. Your perspective and life experience are invaluable. Limited availability.
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Please visit our frequently asked questions.
For additional questions not covered in our FAQ, please email Katie.wilson921@gmail.com.
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I am a white, cisgender woman born and raised in the American South. Originally from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, I now live in the Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas.
I have served for 5+ years as an educator and social justice facilitator with college students at the University of Arkansas and Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. I prioritize vulnerability and openness in my facilitations, and encourage all my students, at any level, to work to confront our dominant identities while I work to confront my own. I recently graduated with my PhD in English, and my research focuses on the role of white women in racial reconciliation, primarily based on my own role as a white woman in two community groups.
I love to be on the move, whether that’s running, walking, hiking, or hitting the open road to see family and friends. My partner and I are parents to a little girl, and I have the distinct honor of being at the beck and call of the best two dogs in the world, Sancha and Myshkin. -
I grew up middle class in Virginia raised by progressive and deeply committed Mennonites. I have dedicated my personal and professional life to holistic and strategic peacebuilding in communities and organizations – rural, urban, and international. For the past 15 years I have supported many groups and communities navigating conflict and have taught adults and college students in conflict skills, restorative justice, and peacebuilding practices.
As a white, cisgender, heterosexual woman, I understand the long road in dismantling white supremacy within ourselves and our institutions, and I’m committed to personal and collective liberation. I get excited working with white women and genderqueer people as we get out of the way and into the metaphorical and actual streets for justice.
I’ve made my home in many places – Virginia, the UK, Indiana, Kansas, and Maryland – and regardless of location, you’ll find me hugging trees, connecting with the local Unitarian Universalist congregation, exploring state parks/nature, singing in a local choir, and deep diving in the community – learning about culture, history, and connecting with the local justice and anti-racism organizing movements. I currently make my home in the lands of the Piscataway and Nacotchtank people (now known as the DC area) where I enjoy devising Auntie Sharon adventures with my nieces and nephews.
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Item deI’m a white woman of a certain age (69 at this juncture). I grew up in New York City and went to college in Chicago but I’ve spent the past almost 50 years living in North Carolina and working across in the South, primarily in rural communities. My passion is economic and social justice and particularly working to change the many systems that sustain and perpetuate inequities. The best work I was involved in was organizing and advocating using the Community Reinvestment Act, which was a powerful tool in the 1980s and 1990s to force banks to lend to people of color and invest in their communities.
Besides working as a consultant, mostly with nonprofits to help them have greater impact and sustainability, I study the piano (classical), compulsively garden (not noticing the copperhead one bush over who then bit me), cycle and do yoga. I’m accident prone and am trying to celebrate those times when I can fully use all limbs. I have a grown daughter who lives in Durham who is an advocate with a national organization, and a 23-year-old son, adopted from Guatemala, who will soon (we hope) get certified as a Medical Lab Technician.
Because Black leaders have long been calling us white folk to do our own work, I’m so thankful to have discovered Finding Freedom and the space and tools it creates for white women to wrestle with our own complicity and power and to discern a way forward to manifestly broaden this circle of learning and doing.