From Ally to Co-conspirator: BLM Solidarity in Latinx, API and White Communities

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The deafening cry for equity and justice by Black Americans is causing many non-Black identified people to want to support change. However, many people are experiencing confusion about to how support the Black Lives Matter movement without causing harm. Questions such as, “How do I go from performative gestures to meaningful action?” and “How do I address any implicit bias?” are common. If you are hoping to address such questions, please join PTBi and White, API and Latinx community leaders for a discussion on how to become authentic co-conspirators in the work to dismantle systemic anti-Black racism in our institutions and in our lives.
 

What will be covered

  • The difference between "Ally" and "Co-conspirator" and its history in the United States
  • How anti-Blackness has manifested in non-Black POC communities throughout history and in the present moment
  • What true solidarity with Black Lives Matter looks like
  • How centering Blackness improves health equity across all races

Webinar Information

We will be LIVE BROADCASTING the event on our Facebook page due to the overwhelming response.

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Speakers

Lydia Bell

Lydia Bell

Lydia is the Program Associate for UCSF's Center for Community Engagement. A former Good-Will Ambassador to Taiwan, recruiter committed to improving access for students of color at Princeton University, and volunteer in community-based organizations in underserved communities around the globe, Lydia’s background includes counseling teen survivors of abuse, as well as training med students and medical professionals in interdisciplinary and cultural communication skills, bedside manner development, and global health ethics. She has worked in public affairs for clients including: UPS (racial discrimination/litigation cases), United Airlines (security checkpoints/domestic partner benefits), and in media arts. Lydia’s background also includes assisting in pitching new business projects such as the 49ers football stadium project, as well as assisting in producing/staffing public broadcast Black, Latinx, and Asian Pacific Heritage Month celebrations and local hero awards ceremonies.

Krea Gomez

Krea Gomez

Krea is the Education Director at the Young Women's Freedom Center. She was introduced to justice work as a 16-year old street outreach worker at YWFC and it changed her life. Since then, she has spent years learning how to support her community and her people as an organizer, assisted parents in delivering babies as a doula, had her own children and was a teacher and Dean of Students at a social justice and arts-focused school. She recently returned to the Center in 2017. She does this work because she believes that if we are ever going to see justice for system-impacted individuals and their families, they must be the ones to guide this movement. 

Yvette Marí Robles

Yvette Marí Robles

Yvette Marí Robles is a Medicine Woman at Pathfinder Well Care. She is devoted to embodying, nurturing and sustaining the values of love and liberty. Her work is integrative situating healing in the hearts and hands of communities and mother earth, prioritizing self-determination, transformation, and inner work as social change. As a consultant and coach in the education, health and human services she offers capacity building opportunities that center health and healing potential, power and purpose, building individual and community resilience.

Email: [email protected]

Dara Silverman

Dara Silverman

Dara Silverman is a consultant with Rise Consulting, somatic coach and trainer with 20 years in with organizations and movements for social, racial, economic and gender justice. Dara founded Mutual Aid Beacon, which supports directly-impacted communities in Beacon, Fishkill and Wappingers Falls in the Hudson Valley. In other work, Dara partners with trainers of color to lead organizational change and leadership development initiatives centering racial justice, equity and liberation. 

Eddy Zheng

Eddy Zheng 

Eddy is the President & Founder of New Breath Foundation, and works to mobilize resources to support Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) harmed by violence and the unjust immigration and criminal justice systems. A 2019-21 Rosenberg Foundation Leading Edge Fellow and a 2015-17 Open Society Foundation Soros Justice Fellow, he served as Co-Director of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee and co-founded the first ever ethnic studies program in San Quentin State Prison - ROOTS.

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