Save the Date for the 14th Annual White Privilege Conference!
Theme: The Color of Money: Reclaiming Our Humanity
Date: April 10-13, 2013
Location: Double Tree by Hilton Seattle Airport in Seattle, Washington
Hosted by: The Northwest Equity Consortium
Registration & Lodging Rates, Sponsorship Opportunities & more information at: http:// www.whiteprivilegeconference.com
Help us spread the word: request flyers, save the date postcards, promotional DVDs from mjones15@uccs.edu
Keynotes
Paul Gorski: Founder of EdChange & Associate Professor at George Mason University
Betsy Leondar-Wright; Project Director and Senior Trainer for Class Action
Darrick Hamilton: Associate Professor of Economics and Urban Policy at the New School
Terrance Nelson: Vice Chairman of Grand Governing Council of American Indian Movement
Jacob Swindell: Brooklyn Friends School (10th Grader), Brooklyn, New York
Features:
WHO Attends the WPC:
ABOUT the WPC:
Since its inception in 1999, the founder, Dr. Eddie Moore Jr., has persisted beyond misperceptions of the White Privilege Conference’s (WPC) name to present a transformational experience based on three tenets: understanding, connecting and respecting. The WPC has become a venue for fostering difficult and critical dialogues around white privilege, diversity, multicultural education and leadership, social & economic justice, and intersecting systems of privilege and oppression.
The conference is unique in its ability to bring together students, youth, teachers, university faculty, activists, social workers and counselors, healthcare workers, and members of both the spiritual community and corporate arena. Issues of race, addressed from a comprehensive, intersectional perspective, bring in dynamics of gender/gender identity, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, ability and class.
Our strategy in addressing issues of inequality involves bringing together a consummate network of both national and regional lead learners and practitioners to work and learn from each other. This synergistic collaboration produces both paradigm shifts and personal action. As our evaluations confirm, the WPC provides an opportunity for participants to discuss how white privilege, white supremacy, and oppression affects daily life while gaining strategies for addressing issues of privilege and oppression and advancing social and economic justice.
The Youth Action Project is a dedicated event for high school youth to seriously engage issues of race, oppression, privilege and what it means to be an ally. The workshops, youth led caucuses, race affinity groups, interactive activities, film, spoken word, Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, and fishbowl discussions address issues of heritage, racial identity, language, isms, labels, teamwork, and strategies for community action & social change. The final day of the conference culminates as the youth join the larger conference, integrate learned concepts and present a powerful closing performance for all conference attendees.
Stay Connected Year-Round:
Intersections Radio: Listen to interviews and keynote rebroadcasts http://www.blogtalkradio.com/intersectionsradio
Your weekly connection to the WPC & Matrix Center – Understanding & Dismantling Privilege Journal www.wpcjournal.com
