• Identify common and contemporary issues regarding racism and/or oppression of minorities.
    
• Receive  support and accountability including a follow-up Q & A days after the workshop.
  
  
• Engage  in relevant discussion related to authenticity, privilege, intersectionality and colorism to help your children navigate their space as they mature into adulthood.  
  
  
• Gain confidence initiating conversations and responding to your children's questions about race to foster a sense of belonging and inclusion.  
  
  
• Distinguish  nuanced experiences that counter  typical Black/White binary racial discourse. 

We're in it together, right?  You're invited to build your anti-racism acumen in an online community devoted to anti-oppression, identity, self-care and social change.  (Yes, that's a bunch, but they're all related)! The group consists of individuals of many backgrounds interested in social change and provides an opportunity for further learning and exploration.  You can click here to join and learn more prior to the workshop.

Welcome! I'm so excited about this workshop experience.  Though I've been involved in activism, advocacy and racial trauma healing work for many years as a Harvard lawyer, racial trauma coach and licensed trauma therapist, addressing the complexity of multi-racial identity in a way that honors the backdrop of slavery and racism has been a challenge.   There are a number of ways to approach this work, but my particular interest is in providing a framework that nurtures and normalizes this identity for those of African or Caribbean ancestry. 

My approach:  It might be hard to make the connection between identity and oppression, but identity is intrinsically linked to how we exist in public spaces which are racialized whether or not people are actually talking about race or racism.  It's not hard to have absorbed messages celebrating colorblind living especially when mixed-raced identity is often heralded as a manifestation of progress in a "melting-pot" society.  

While mixed race identity is certainly not an inevitable trajectory towards misery, my work helps participants understand identity within the context of gender, class, place and broader structural issues not always anticipated when we fall in love and think about raising families. 

I draw from decades of community work interacting with and providing services to diverse populations as legal counsel, an activist and trauma therapist.  My lived experience includes having navigated intersecting identities living in Europe, the United States and the Caribbean.  I'm accustomed to being the "go to" person in community health settings to provide services related to mixed-race identity work and this is a significant focus of my current private practice working with individuals, families and couples.

My story: It's hard to do this work without unpacking my own intersecting identities. Some of my own vulnerability is exposing myself to the dreaded question "what are you?" That dread and all that it generates provided impetus for this workshop and some of my other work associated with multiracial/multiethnic identity exploring individual identity development or working with interracial couples.  

This workshop: In this workshop, I'm going to share with you strategies and skills for developing stable identity based on theory, practice and my lived experience shape shifting within a multiracial family and in different countries.

Connect with me: You can learn more about me and my work in my weekly podcast Keeping Company or on Instagram.