:: speaker and presenter bios

Arlene Avakain
Arlene Avakain is a professor and director of Women's Studies, UM/Amherst, author of LION WOMAN'S LEGACY: AN ARMENIAN AMERICAN MEMOIR (1992); editor of THROUGH THE KITCHEN WINDOW: WOMEN WRITERS EXPLORE THE INTIMATE MEANING OF FOOD AND COOKING (1997/1998); and co-editor of AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE VOTE 1837-1965 (1997) and numerous articles on gender and ethnicity, white privilege, women's studies, and women and food.

Barbara Beckwith
Barbara Beckwith is a journalist. She is an active member of the National Writers Union and helped create the NWU handbook, Building Strength Through Diversity. Barbara has also worked for many years as a teacher. She currently co-facilitates "White People Challenging Racism: Moving From Talk to Action," a 5-session workshop at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

Chip Berlet
Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates, has spent over twenty–five years studying prejudice, demonization, scapegoating, demagoguery, conspiracism, and authoritarianism. He has investigated far right hate groups, reactionary backlash movements, theocratic fundamentalism, civil liberties violations, police misconduct, government and private surveillance abuse, and other anti-democratic phenomena. He is a lively speaker defending democracy and diversity. Berlet is co–author, with Matthew N. Lyons, of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, (Guilford Press, 2000), which was one of twelve books to receive the Gustavus Myers Center Award for outstanding scholarship on the subject of human rights and intolerance in North America.

Boston Mobilization
Boston Mobilization is a community organization that works to engage young people on different social issues. Since its founding in 1977, Mobilization has worked specifically with college students, empowering them to take action on different social and political issues. The main areas of the organization's interests are in youth education, which involves facilitating discussions in local high school classrooms promoting peace and anti-racism, campus organizing, which includes educating and organizing a new generation of activists to work for peace and justice, and community empowerment, which uses vigils, actions, and educational forums to build a diverse, wide-spread peace movement. Mobilization's newest project, Youth for Peace, trains students and community members to facilitate workshops promoting peace, anti-racism, and critical thinking among high school, and eventually middle school, students in the aftermath of Sept. 11th. Youth for Peace provides students with the space and the tools that enable them to express their feelings and opinions and to think more critically and responsibly about the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks, their causes and their solutions. Our workshops are based on popular education, which includes an interactive curriculum revolving around student input. Discussions require a 50-75 minute time frame. Since September 11, we have reached more than 1400 students in 60 different classrooms at four local high schools and one after school program in the greater Boston area. Each facilitator for the project must have an interview and two training sessions before they enter a classroom. Before they head a facilitation, they must have observed a workshop so that they are fully prepared to lead a discussion. The teacher of the class is welcome to participate in the discussions, though it is not mandatory. We do ask that they remain in the classroom to observe and provide support, if necessary. Though Youth for Peace is working to empower students to think more critically and responsibly about September 11th and the war on terrorism, Mobilization is also working to develop curricula that deals with different social and political issues, like racism, media, civil liberties, and technology. We make sure that our curriculum is geared toward the specific group of students with whom we are working, which involves exploring local and community issues and relating them to global and systemic problems. We are interested in holding after school workshops at high schools, middle schools, and community organizations and ultimately empowering students to develop groups at their respective schools.

Steven Botkin
Steven Botkin, Ed.D., is the founder (1982) and Executive Director of the MRC. He is the clinical supervisor for the MOVE program, which he founded in 1989. He received his doctoral degree from the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts in 1988 for research focused on gender consciousness among college men. He has taught courses and led workshops throughout the U.S. on men and masculinity, rape and sexual harassment, homophobia, racism and men's leadership.

Nadine Wolf Budbill
Nadine Wolf Budbill is White, queer social justice educator and poet/performer. She designs and facilitates workshops for middle, high school and college students that foster empowerment through anti oppression (anti-racism, gender/queer issues, media-literacy) education and creative self-expression. She is a Hampshire College graduate who resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Kelley Brown
Kelley Brown is a History / Social studies teacher at Easthampton High School. She is currently a member of the National Coalition of Education Activists (NCEA) and former instructor of the TEAMS tutoring project at UMASS which focussing on raising awareness among future teachers around social factors that influence "success" in education. As a teacher and a white women she sees herself as both a beneficiary and a perpetuator of White privilege. Therefore she is committed to addressing the root causes of the bias of "success" in public schools and its relationship to White privilege.

Katrina Browne
Katrina Browne, Producer/Director, Traces of the Trade, a documentary, currently in progress, about Browne’s ancestors from Rhode Island who were the largest slave-trading family in early America. Browne previously served as Outreach Planning Coordinator for the film adaptation of Anna Deavere Smith's play Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. She consulted with race relations and media experts to plan a community/educational outreach campaign to use the national PBS broadcast and video distribution for dialogue and action on race, ethnicity and equity. Earlier, she worked as a senior staffperson at Public Allies, an AmeriCorps program now operating in 10 cities that she co-founded in 1991 to recruit more young people and people of color into the public interest sector. She has an M.A. in Theology from the Pacific School of Religion (thesis on film and democratic dialogue), and a B.A. from Princeton University.

Diane Dana
Diane is a consultant/contractor who works in varied settings on transformational change work. She currently works with Peggy McIntosh at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, offering research and administrative support to the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum and Peggy's work on privilege systems. She also works to integrate spirituality, contemplative practices, social analysis and integral theory into institutions of higher education in the Five College area. In an earlier stage of life, Diane spent ten years forming and growing the National Service movement in America and the K-12 Service Learning movement in Massachusetts, eventually co-founding and coordinatoring/directoring the Massachusetts K-12 School-based Community Service Learning Program at the Massachusetts Department of Education. Her workshop will include bits of the contemplative, the creative, the practical and the analytical.

Elizabeth Daniele
Elizabeth Daniele will be graduating from Smith College next month with a Sociology degree. She believes that focusing on historically unmarked people and exploring the nature of privileged identities is necessary in the academic world and critical for our daily lives. She is a member of White Students Against Racism and urges others to consider the Self as a site of resistance.

Livia DaSilva
Livia DaSilva and Erin Whitehouse worked as co-facilitators for Fall 2001 as a part of the Intergroup Dialogue Project at Mount Holyoke College. Together, they also facilitated a dialogue on class at the Beyond the Box conference held at Mount Holyoke College February 8-10, 2002. Both are very interested in exploring how race and class intersect on college campuses, in the United States, and also globally.

Mary Davies
Mary Davies was born in New Orleans, grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and has lived in the Boston area for seventeen years. She has been a featured reader at several open mikes in the Boston area, and her work has recently been published at http://www.ScarletLetters.com. She writes a column for http://www.butchdykeboy.com called "Notes From a Comfortable Shoes Femme". Mary has been working against oppression in her various communities ever since she found out other people were doing it too. She is currently working on a novel.

Sarah Eley
Sarah Eley is graduating from Hampshire College this May. Her Division III, Senior Thesis Project, was exploring issues of social change through modern dance choreography and performance. Sarah created a piece with the goal of breaking the silence around sexual violence, and also a dance that confronted issues of gender and sexuality. After School sbe is interested in working collaboratively to continue conversations around social change issues through dance and other forms of communication.


Rebecca Emerson
Rebecca Emerson is a senior at Mount Holyoke College. She is the co facilitator of White Students Against Racism. Which is both a support group for dismantling racism as well as an activist organization. Current activism projects include work on this conference, organizing lectures and workshops in high schools, taking leadership and advocates roles in issues of campus diversity. She is co-leading the workshop on Accountability. In the fall she will return to Vermont and continue active anti racism leadership focusing on challenging herself and her white peers on racial identity, and anti racism. Rebecca will co-leading the workshop Accountability.

Carl Erikson
Carl Erikson, Director of Operations, worked in senior financial and administrative positions in a variety of arts and educational organizations before joining the MRC in 1998. In addition to this, he has been instrumental in the expansion of programs and services in the MRC for gay, bisexual, and questioning men, and has developed a workshop for mothers raising boys. He is also a regular contributor to Voice Male, the quarterly magazine of the MRC.

Manuel J. Fernandez
Manuel J. Fernandez is a social justice consultant with expertise in the development of anti-bias initiatives within educational institutions, community agencies, and workplace settings. He is founder/president of Man Dez Group and consults with private and public schools, colleges, community groups and corporate institutions on issues of social justice, anti-bias, diversity, and equity.

In addition, he currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Benjamin Banneker Charter School and as senior consultant to Visions, Inc. and Ibis Consulting Group. He is co-founder and former executive director of Empowering Multicultural Initiatives, a professional development collaborative of school districts formed to actively promote anti-racism and equity in all aspects of school life. He is also co-founder and former advisor to the award winning Students United for Racial Equality. He has served as the superintendent/principal of an urban charter high school, as director of a suburban school district desegregation program (METCO), as a senior consultant to the Center for Anti-Racist Education, and as a middle school and high school counselor.

Kaitie Gallagher
Kaitie Gallagher has been a facilitator of white privilege weekend
workshops and bi-weekly forums at Hope Community Church since 1995. She works at the New England Center for Women in Transition—a social change agency committed to undoing racism and violence by sponsoring The People’s Institute Trainings in Franklin and Hampshire Counties.

Gary Glass
Gary Glass is a Counseling Psychologist who is a staff member at the Boston Univeristy Counseling Center. In addition to his interest in helping clients work through issues related to the impact of race on daily living, he faciliates workshops and discussions for student groups. He also teaches Multicultural Issues in Counseling at Boston College as an adjunct faculty member. His interests include race and racial identity, with particular interest in the process of becoming aware of race for White Americans and those in training to enter helping professions.

Rhonda Gordon
Rhonda Gordon, B.A., M.Ed., is the Director of Multicultural Learning at Hope Community Church, a multicultural, non-denominational Christian church. For twenty-six years, as an educator and senior consultant to for-profit and not-for-profit groups, Rhonda has applied her knowledge and skills in organizational development and multicultural learning. The granddaughter, daughter, and sister of ministers, she has always known that any work which led to more respect, more grace, more truth, more compassion and more connectedness (with self and/or others) was indeed a spiritual enterprise. However, in the world she would be cautious not to directly associate these breakthroughs to forces invisible. Boldly, in confronting racism and white privilege at Hope Church, she declares, "we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world," (Ephesians 6:12) and to take a stand we must ask for help. "White Privilege: A Spiritual Journey" is one of the products she has developed to increase peace on planet earth.


Cary Graber
Cary Graber was born and raised in Brooklyn New York. She entered Hampshire College in 1998 with the intention of doing women's studies and art. Her interests moved to African and African American studies, specifically the arts and religion. Eventually she found that the best way she could form and articulate her feelings and ideas on race in America was through the lens of popular culture, specifically through hip-hop culture. This has proved effective both in understanding the relationship between African-Americans and White people in America and in incorporating personal experience into academic work. In addition to working on her Division III Cary regularly attends anti-racism and white privilege workshops with the hope to one day facilitate them. She is honored to be a part of the conference Understanding Whiteness, Recognizing Privilege: A Conference Towards Racial Justice.

Dan Griffin
Dan Griffin is a student at Hampshire College and has been involved in
white dominated activist projects and organizing for several years.

T. Aaron Hans
T. Aaron Hans is a "genderqueer" identified, activist and educator who has been facilitating trainings on issues of diversity and social justice for the last eight years. ta is known for working on TBLGQ youth issues, transgender issues, anti-racist and multi-issue coalition building. ta is presently a masters' student in the Social Justice Education Program at UMass, and co-leads RISE Consulting.

Lisa Harrison
Lisa Harrison became interested in social justice in 1994 when she attended a leadership, diversity camp sponsored by the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ). Later that year she became a peer leader and facilitated diversity workshops in high schools. From 1995-1999 Lisa attended Simmons College and received her BA in English. During college Lisa became a member of the Latina Organization and then in her senior year became the first Latina president of the Student Government Association. In 1999 Lisa became a Program Coordinator at a group home for autistic adults.

After college Lisa continued her work in diversity by participating in a race dialogue committee in Jamaica Plain subsidized by the NCCJ. In June of 2001 Lisa left her job to enrich her knowledge of the country by traveling cross-country for a month with her partner. Upon her return Lisa became Assistant Equal Employment Opportunity Administrator for the Department of Mental Retardation. Here she puts all of the tools she has learned in her diversity training into practice. She recruits and advocates for protected group members (women, people of color, disabled, and Vietnam era Veterans), works on a program that exposes 17-25 young adults to the MR population, and carries out the Governor’s Diversity Initiative at the agency.

Molly Hein
Molly Hein is a white girl from NYC who currently lives in Holyoke, MA. Through videomaking, teaching, and long hard conversations, she challenges herself and others to break down internalized racial superiority in their relationships with other people.

Judith Hudson
As a teacher educator, Judith Hudson has been learning and teaching about racism for twenty years. Currently, Judith has a dual role as a clinical supervisor of field placement at Wheelock College and Director of the Internship Program at Cambridge Friends School in Cambridge, MA.

Noel Ignatiev
Noel Ignatiev is author of How the Irish Became White and coeditor of Race Traitor (winner of the American Award). He teaches in the Department of Critical Studies at Massachuttes College of Art, and is a Fellow of the W.E.B Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University. He is a member of the New Abolitionist Soceity.

Robert Jensen
Robert Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. on media law and ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade.

In his research, Jensen draws on a variety of critical theories. Much of his work has focused on pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality. In more recent work, he has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism.

Jensen is author of Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2001); co-author with Gail Dines and Ann Russo of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (Routledge, 1998); and co-editor with David S. Allen of Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (New York, University Press, 1995).

A pamphlet based on three speeches he gave during fall 2001 -- "Citizens of the Empire: Thoughts on Patriotism, Dissent, and Hope" -- is available in print or through free download at http://www.nowarcollective.com/citizensoftheempire.pdf

In addition to teaching and research, Jensen writes for popular media, both alternative and mainstream. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy, politics, and race have appeared in papers around the country. He also is involved in a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and economic domination of the rest of the world.

Beth Koppe
DJ MYSDEFY(Beth Koppe) is a full time youth program coordinator/educator in Vermont. As a DJ she breaks boundaries focusing on spinning conscious, mysogyny free hip-hop and breakbeats. In collaboration with spoken word artist, Nadine Wolf Budbill, she performs turntablist tricks as the two come together to bridge the gaps between political spoken word poetry, music, and turntablist style.

Phyllis Labanowski
Physllis Labanowski is a white woman of European descent. She has encountered her own internalized white supremacy which she learned as a result of being raised in a working class, Polish patriarchy. She continues to struggle with the subtleties of the same messages that bombard us on a daily basis. As a result, she has dedicated her life to helping people 'wake up'. She has worked in public and private school communities for the last 20 years and currently offers courses for educators who want to create equity in their classroom and school communities. She has served on a variety of anti-racism committees in western Massachusetts and mentors young white people to become leaders in their schools and communities, working in coalition with People of Color.

Donna Lamb
Donna Lamb is a journalist and anti racism activist residing in New York City. She is a staff writer for the Caribbean Life newspaper. Her writings are also to be found regularly in such papers and on-line publications as The Black World Today, The Multiracial Activist, Turning the Tide and the Greenwich Village Gazette.

She has been widely published on important racial issues such as police brutality, the "crime" of shopping while black, racism in the progressive movements, and why she supports reparations to African Americans. Among the awards she's received for her writing, in 2000 she was given First Place for Personal Commentary from the New York Association of Black Journalists.

Along with presenting workshops throughout the country, she has appeared on radio and TV on such programs as "Your Point of View" broadcast throughout Prince George Sound, Maryland, and "Studio City" on Slovenian TV.

Ms. Lamb is a member of Rev. Al Sharpton's civil rights organization, the National Action Network and is Communications Director for Caucasians United for Reparations and Emancipation (CURE).

Ellen M. Landis
Ellen M. Landis, LMFT ADTR, Social Action Artist, Creative Arts Therapist, Organizational Trainer and Consultant in Private Practice. Ellen is a Registered Dance Movement Therapist and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist teaching at Springfield College. Her recent work includes offering training on interrupting racism, conflict resolution, sexual harassment, vicarious traumatization, and improving communication strategies, using movement, art, performance and talk modalities.

John Lapham
John Lapham is a white working artist, cartoonist, teacher, and performer especially inerested in honesty, authenticity, and intuition. "I've learned that satisfying art-making has more to do with permission, support, and community than it does with skill, judgment, or technique," he says. John is a member of the Undoing Racism committee at the Haymarket People's Fund, and is a co-founder of Art and Soul, a studio and workshop space in Cambridge, MA dedicated to the study of creative, expressive, and contemplative arts.

Robin Scott Lea
Robin Scott Lea works as a youth program specialist for the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston, MA. As part of her job she organizes UU youth for social justice and youth empowerment. Robin has been engaged in anti-racism work for the past few years and is constantly expanding upon her analysis of power and oppression. Robin began as an unschooler and youth activist in Chapel Hill, North Carolina when she was 15. When not working for the Unitarians, Robin is a student at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.

Peggy McIntosh
Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women and is the founder and co-director of the national SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Project on Inclusive Curriculum. She is widely known for her groundbreaking "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies. This analysis and its shorter form, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," have been instrumental in putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of gender, race, and sexuality.

Kierin Moscowitz
Kierin Moscowitz is a resident of Mid-Hudson, NY. He recently spent 2 months in Israel/Palestine and is currently on a speaking tour about anti racism in the Occupied Terrotories. Kierin also co-authored "stick it to the manarchy."

Catherine Orland
Singer/songwriter, Catherine Orland was trained until age twelve as a classical pianist. At twelve, she bought her first acoustic guitar and quickly realized how perfectly matched she and the instrument were. Her music can best be described as aggressive folk rock. Catherine draws on her emotions for material and strives to connect with people by writing with honesty and freedom. Her emotional messages are conveyed through maintaining a constant sensitivity to the balance between lyrics, melody, and tonal quality and attitude, which results in thoughtful, multi-layered, and refreshingly honest compositions. She hopes that her music will make people think about who they are how they behave. She also seeks to further her activist goals through music: to establish peace through equality by ending sexism and racism.

Enoch H. Page
Enoch H. Page is an anthropologist at Umass-Amherst who studies race and whiteness in nations and bureaucratic organizations. He was the first scholar to expound the concept of white public space borrowed by others who have made good use of the concept. He is also the author of several essays that explore the white cultural practices that are organized by racial dominants to surveille blackness in these public spaces of racial containment. His forthcoming book Unofficial Black History, examines the liberal racial climate of a small northeastern community located in proximity to a number of National Parks. His regional ethnographic study demonstrates how and why park managers only recently have begun to acknowledge and call attention to the relevance of those historic park locations to African historical experience in the nation. A second manuscript in progress is called, Bamboozled by Whiteness.

Irit Reinheimer
Irit Reinheimer lives in the hudson valley, ny. She has organized and
worked on various issues dealing with labor, women, and palestine.

Luke Ryan
Luke Ryan has been a facilitator of white privilege weekend workshops and bi-monthly forums at Hope Community Church since 2000. He works at the Western Mass Training Consortium providing residential support for individuals with disabilities. He is a graduate of Amherst College and plans to attend Western New England College’s School of Law in the fall.

Stephan Rogers
Stephan Rogers has been a facilitator of white privilege weekend workshops and bi-monthly forums at Hope Community Church since 1998. He is the owner of Rogers Management Incorporated and has thirty years experience working in construction and construction management, a field dominated by white men and thoroughly held together by white privilege. He has a Masters in Intercultural and International Management from the School for International Training in Brattleboro,Vermont.

Randy Ross
Randy Ross has been an anti-bias trainer and activist for almost four decades. In her work for the New Jersey Office of Bias Crime and Community Relations, she serves as a trainer and consultant for educators, law enforcement, and community organizations. Randy is a dialogue facilitator and facilitator-trainer using the Study Circles and Hope in the Cities dialogue models. She is also involved with promoting and leading Jewish/Muslim dialogue in the U.S. Currently, Randy is developing an anti-bullying program for grades 6-12 with a focus on helping adult and student bystanders actively intervene to end bias-based bullying in their schools.

Aimée Sands
Aimée Sands is a white poet and independent documentary producer based in Jamaica Plain, Mass. She is currently working on a film entitled "Crossing Over: The White Journey to Racial Consciousness". Her credits also include "Africans in America", the landmark PBS series on America¹s journey through slavery; and "We Are Family", a PBS documentary on life in gay and lesbian families. She has received a total of 20 awards for her work, including an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and a San Francisco Film Festival Golden Gate Award. She is a member of the Eva's Kids poetry group, and co-coordinates the Brookline Poetry Series, a monthly poetry reading.

Emmett Schaefer
Emmett Schaefer first began teaching courses on social class, race relations, gender, and African studies at community colleges and universities 25 years ago and is currently a faculty member at University of Massachusetts, Boston campus. As a result of his teaching and activism around issues of oppression, his support work for liberation struggles in southern Africa, and his personal relationships with Native people, Asians and Asian-Americans, and Africans and African-Americans, he has a strong working knowledge of white racism.

Mary Ellen Shea
Mary Ellen Shea has been a facilitator of white privilege weekend workshops and bi-monthly forums since 2000. She is a Conflict Resolution Specialist with twenty-five years experience in the mediation, arbitration and facilitation of difficult and seemingly intractable disputes between and among individuals, organizations and communities. She is a graduate of Northeastern University and Harvard University and the recipient of extensive postgraduate training from Harvard Law School, Harvard Graduate School of Education and MIT Sloan School of Management.

Fran Smith
Fran Smith is a multicultural educator and organizer with over twenty five years experience. Fran has worked as a teacher, organizer, program director and executive director in nonprofit and multiracial organizations in Boston, including Mass Rock Against Racism, Mission Possible, the Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation, Brighton High School, the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, and the Anti-Defamation League. She is the former Affirmative Action Officer for the City of Weymouth, former Project Director of Mobilization for Equity, a social justice project promoting equityand parent involvement in Boston school reform, and currently the Senior Associate of Development and Public Relations for the Boston Women’s Fund.

Fran was raised in a working class, Italian American family in Weymouth, a Boston suburb. She grew up in an extended family of women who saw struggle as an inevitable part of life. Fran first began to understand racism and white supremacy when she worked in a multiracial regional students’rights group with other Boston Public high school students during the early days of Boston’s school desegregation. By the time Fran began Hampshire College in 1978, activism was already central to her life.. As a student on full scholarship, she began making the connections between class and race. Most of Fran’s antiracist mentoring while in high school and college came from work in Boston’s Black community and courses in African American studies. In the1980’s she made strong political connections with other white antiracist activists.

She has a wonderful daughter who attends second grade atYoung Achievers, an anti-bias science and math pilot school and Fran serves on the School Site Council. Fran also serves as Vice President of Community Change’s Board of Directors and is a Board member of Project HIP HOP...

Cooper Thompson
Cooper Thompson has been leading workshops, consulting, organizing, and writing about sexism, homophobia, and racism full-time for over 20 years. In the 1980’s and 90’s, he was a co-founder and the national coordinator of an educational project called The Campaign to End Homophobia. He is the author of many essays and educational materials, including “A New Vision of Masculinity” (published originally in Changing Men magazine and reprinted in dozens of anthologies and college readers)” and “White Men and the Denial of Racism” in Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, edited by members of the Social Justice Education program at the University of Massachusetts.

Undoing Racism Organizing Committee (UROC) of Western Mass
Includes: Lisa Smith, Marco Dermith, Judy Feinstein, Mary Bombardier, Paige Wilder, and Anne Richmond
We are a multi-racial team of old and new members of UROC, all anti-racist
organizers committed to undoing racism in our communities, workplaces and personal lives.

Erin Whitehouse
Erin Whitehouse and Livia DaSilva worked as co-facilitators for Fall 2001 as a part of the Intergroup Dialogue Project at Mount Holyoke College. Together, they also facilitated a dialogue on class at the Beyond the Box conference held at Mount Holyoke College February 8-10, 2002. Both are very interested in exploring how race and class intersect on college campuses, in the United States, and also globally.

Tim Wise
Wise is a leading young social critic and one of the most popular speakers on US campuses today. An anti-racist activist since age 14, Wise helped end ex-Klansman David Duke's political career in Louisiana. He has spoken to over 75, 000 in forty-two states: defending affirmative action, responding to right-wing assaults on the poor and people of color, and explaining why white have a moral and practical obligation to support racial equity. Mr. Wise is the founder of the Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE). He is also the former Assistant Director of the Louisiana Coalition against Racism and Nazism, as well as the Executive Director of the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing. He is currently the on the advisory boards of the Fisk University Race Relations Institute and the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture. He is the author of Little White Lies: The Truth About Affirmative Action and "Reverse Discrimination," Hardcover Hate, and has works in published in White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism, When Race Becomes Real: Award-Winning Writers Tackle America's Most Difficult Subject, and The Reparations Reader. His columns are syndicated by AlterNet and distributed by the Znet Commentary program. Wise has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs and has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Faith Yacubian
Faith Yacubian is a recent graduate from Simmons College, Boston Massachusetts. Last May, as she finalized her undergraduate years with a BA in sociology and psychology, handed over her position as treasurer of student government, hammered her last nail at her internship with Habitat for Humanities, she decided to continue her education traveling cross-country for one month with her partner. Currently, Faith is working at Simmons College as the Project Coordinator at the Office of Residence Life, and aspires to earn a graduate degree in Higher Education with a sociology concentration. She will leave Simmons in the summer, with or without a job, and continue advocating for social change in colleges and universities by working collaboratively with student activists dedicated to social justice, while recruiting others to join and celebrate this historical movement.

Jennifer J. Yanco
Jennifer Yanco’s anti-racism work has focused on white people and the role we have to play in dismantling racism—in ourselves and in the institutions around us. She has led workshops on racism at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education for over two years, has served on the anti-racist education committee of the Cambridge Friends School, and has been involved in various anti-racist programs and activities.

Her work is grounded in the conviction that overturning white supremacy will require a cultural transformation among white people. This requires that we learn the facts about our history, that we reflect on the meaning of these facts, and that we become proficient in an anti-racist culture. We have few models for this kind of proficiency, so we must be models for one another, providing the kind of reinforcement we cannot expect from the larger society.