Trainings I’ve been a part of and recommend
- Embodied Racial Justice Practices by the UW Health Mindfulness Program (Oct. 2021)
- ARC Monona study circle (facilitated) (July 2021)
- Building Racial Equity: Foundations by Race Forward (May 2021)
- Bhagavad Gita Now: A Path of Social Justice with Anusha Wijeyakumar (February 2021)
- Roots of Yoga: Decolonizing Your Yoga Practice with Anusha Wijeyakumar (Nov. 2020)
- Practical Tools for Talking with Other Whites About Racism by Beth Berila (2020)
- Cultural Somatics online course by Resmaa Menakem (2020)
- Yoga Purpose and Action from Off the Mat Into the World (2020)
- White Fragility book club (2020)
- Black History for a New Day class by Justified Anger (2020)
- Witnessing Whiteness (2019)
- What does it Mean to Be White book clubs (2018 and 2019)
- YWCA Racial Justice Summit (2017)
- Institute for Healing Racism with Richard Davis (2016)
Books I’ve read and recommend
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World by Michelle Cassanda Johnson
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
- How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi
- My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- What Does It Mean to Be White by Robin DiAngelo
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Racial Healing by Reginald Newkirk and Nathan Rutstein
- Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
- White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
- Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It by Shelly Tochluk
Good articles
Podcasts
Films
- 13th
- Just Mercy
- Harriet
- Selma
- Race: The Power of an Illusion (PBS)
- The Difference Between Us
- The Story We Tell
- The House We Live In
- The Birth of a Nation (2015)
- When They See Us
Books I want to read
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Alexander, Michelle
- One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Anderson, Carol
- Consciousness in Action: The Power of Beauty, Love, and Courage in a Violent Time by Beath, Andrew
- Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter by Bunyasi, Tehama Lopez
- We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by DeGruy, Joy
- White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America by Hagerman, Margaret A.
- Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Harvey, Jennifer
- The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege by Jensen, Robert
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Love, Bettina L.
- The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Magee, Rhonda
- Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland by Metzl, Jonathan M.
- Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal by Loew, Patty
- Black Appetite. White Food.: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom by Lyiscott, Jamila
- Mindful of Race Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm by King, Ruth
- The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Payne, Keith
- Settlin’: Stories of Madison’s Early African American Families by Simms, Muriel
- Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Steele, Claude M.
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Stevenson, Bryan
- Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World by Taranath, Anu
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Tatum, Beverly Daniel
- Learning to Be White: Money, Race, and God in America by Thandeka
- The End of Policing by Vitale, Alex S.
Films I want to see
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Loving
- Do the Right Thing
- 12 Years a Slave
- BlacKkKlansman
- I am Not Your Negro