Join our panel of international racial justice leaders for a deep and multifaceted look at where we are now and how we can advance healing and cultural transformation.
Anti-racism movements around the world operate in different cultures and contexts, yet there is fundamental common ground in the work of liberation and system change. Living in this body, this place, this moment, how do we cultivate healing and resilience, meet the immense challenges of our time, and grow the anti-racist movement locally and globally?
Our panel
Resmaa Menakem www.resmaa.com
New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. His latest book, published in April 2022, is The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning. Visionary Justice Leadership coach, organizational strategist and master trainer. Resmaa is a leading voice in today’s conversation on racialized trauma.
Leticia Nieto, PsyD., LMFT, TEP www.beyondinclusionbeyondempowerment.com
Coach, psychotherapist, and educator specializing in liberation and equity, motivational patterning, and evolutionary creativity. Author of Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, is an accessible analysis of the dynamics of oppression and supremacy that offers readers ways to develop skills to promote social justice.
Nova Reid www.novareid.com
Often described as a force to be reckoned with, Nova is an activist, TED speaker and author. Her debut book The Good Ally: A guided anti-racism journey from bystander to changemaker is out in September 2021. Awarded a Social Impact Award at the Precious Awards for her work in racial justice. Nova runs an online anti-racism academy and regularly appears on BBC News, Sky News and BBC Radio as a media expert on race.
Dr. Robin DiAngelo www.robindiangelo.com
Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington, consultant and trainer for over 20 years on issues of racial and social justice. New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism. Her latest book Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm was published in 2021.
Esther A. Armah http://www.theaiej.com
Esther A. Armah is CEO, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice, a global institute and the implementation home of the racial healing framework, Emotional Justice, working across Ghana, the UK and the US. Esther is an international award-winning journalist, playwright and author of Emotional Justice: a roadmap for racial healing. She has lived and worked in New York, Washington DC, London, and Ghana.
Edwin Cleophas www.thesja.co.za
Managing Director, Social Justice Agency. Social-Cohesion, Justice & Transformation Activist. Edwin is a family man with a passion for the youth and the transformation of South Africa. With the Social Justice Agency, Edwin builds partnerships and networks to further social justice and navigate difficult conversations around race-based disparities in South Africa.
Victoria Santos www.centerforhealingandliberation.com
Program Director, Center for Healing and Liberation. Victoria brings over thirty years of leadership in community-based engagement and racial justice work. She has a deep commitment to our collective liberation, and has trained in the fields of psychology, trauma healing, meditation, rituals and embodied practices. She guides healing practices that center somatic awareness.
For more information, please email Victoria Santos at the Center for Healing and Liberation: healingliberation@commonweal.org