The Undoing Racism Workgroup is an anti-racist community collective. Watch this video to learn more.
Undoing Racism Workgroup
Undoing Racism is a community collective of students, staff, and faculty in the School of Social Work dedicated to fighting white supremacy at the individual, school, and structural levels.
This workgroup was established in 2019 after students, staff, and faculty took part in the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond Undoing Racism© workshops. Since then, the Undoing Racism workgroup has been working to implement the People’s Institute anti-racist community organizing model – recognizing that community organizing within our school is critical to move toward an anti-racist and anti-oppressive program to bring along all members of the community.
The Undoing Racism workgroup also emphasizes the role that white members of our community must take on to dismantle and undo white supremacist structures that benefit and maintain power for white people. Our work has largely been focused on building collective community – a fundamental step in the People’s Institute organizing model. Our dialogue and strategic planning to advance towards an anti-racist and anti-oppressive program and school community must begin with building relationships and strengthening community bonds to engage in internal and external anti-racism work.
Meetings are held monthly on Thursdays from 2-3:30pm. All members of our school community are invited to attend.
Contact: [email protected]
Fall Virtual Undoing Racism Meetings
Leadership
Lisa Fedina
Associate Professor of Social Work
Lorraine M. Gutiérrez
Edith A Lewis Collegiate Professor Emerita of Social Work, Arthur F Thurnau Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita of Social Work, School of Social Work and Professor of Psychology Emerita, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Richard M. Tolman
Sheldon D. Rose Collegiate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work
Daicia R. Price
Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program Director
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