Third Space with Jen Cort

“Silence is the best friend of hate” Talking privilege with Dr. Eddie Moore

Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. has pursued and achieved success in academia, business, diversity, leadership, and community service. In 1996, he started America & MOORE, LLC [www.eddiemoorejr.com] to provide comprehensive diversity, privilege, and leadership trainings/workshops.

Dr. Moore is recognized as one of the nation’s top speakers and educators. His interview with Wisconsin Public Radio won the 2015 Wisconsin Broadcasters Association's Best Interview in Medium Market Radio, 1st Place [http://www.wpr.org/shows/newsmakers-december-4-2014], and he is featured in the film “I’m not Racist….Am I?”

Dr. Moore is the Founder/Program Director for the White Privilege Conference (WPC), [www.whiteprivilegeconference.com].

Under the direction of Dr. Moore and his inclusive relationship model the WPC has become one of the top national and international conferences for participants who want to move beyond dialogue and into action around issues of diversity, power, privilege, and leadership.

In 2014 Dr. Moore founded The Privilege Institute (TPI) which engages people in research, education, action, and leadership through workshops, conferences, publications, and strategic partnerships and relationships. Dr. Moore is co-founder of the on-line journal Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, co-editor of Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories, The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys, The Diversity Consultant Cookbook: Preparing for the Challenge (2019) and Teaching Brilliant and Beautiful Black Girls (2020). For 10-years, Dr. Moore served as Director of Diversity at Brooklyn Friends School in Brooklyn, NY, and The Bush School in Seattle, Washington. Now, in addition to full-time consulting, he serves as Founder and President of TPI and lives in Green Bay, WI. Dr. Moore received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in Education Leadership. His Ph.D. research is on Black Football Players at Division III Schools in the Midwest. T

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Soledad O’Brien joins Third Space and provides perspective on funding, staffing, and focusing on equity.


Soledad O’Brien is an award-winning journalist, speaker, author, and philanthropist who anchors and produces the Hearst Television political magazine program “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien.” O’Brien, founder, and CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions, also reports for HBO Real Sports, the PBS NewsHour, WebMD, and has authored two books. She has appeared on networks, Fox and Oxygen, and anchored and reported for NBC, MSNBC, and CNN. She has won numerous awards, including three Emmys, the George Peabody award, an Alfred I DuPont prize, and the Gracie. Newsweek Magazine named her one of the “15 People Who Make America Great.”

With her husband, she is the founder of the PowHERful Foundation that helps young women get to and through college. Follow her on Twitter: @soledadobrien

In this episode of Third Space Howard Stevenson and I discuss racial literacy, empowering parents, and teachers to talk about race, the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color, the health implications of racism, the recent death of Ahmaud Arberry, and more. Listen to this episode and follow his work at www.lionsstory.org and www.forwardpromise.org.


Dr. Howard Stevenson, Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Executive Director of the Racial Empowerment Collaborative at Penn, designed to promote racial literacy in education, health, community and justice institutions.

He is a nationally recognized clinical psychologist and researcher on negotiating racial conflicts using racial literacy for independent and public K-12 schooling, community mental health centers, teachers, police, and parents. Two mental health research projects he leads are funded by National Institutes of Health examine the benefits of racial literacy.

The PLAAY (Preventing Long-term Anger and Aggression in Youth) Project uses basketball and racial socialization to help youth and parents cope with stress from violence and social rejection. Dr. Stevenson also co-leads with Drs. Lorretta and John Jemmott, the SHAPE-UP: Barbers Building Better Brothers Project which trains Black barbers as health educators. Backed by a 12 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and based at REC.

Howard also co-directs Forward Promise. Dr. Stevenson is the recipient of the 2020 Gittler Prize and RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings of the top university-based scholars in the U.S.
Author of Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools: Differences that Make a Difference, is designed to reduce racial threat reactions in face-to-face encounters. Howard’s research and clinical work have been funded by W.T. Grant Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, and the National Institutes of Mental Health and Child Health and Human Development. He is the father of two sons, Bryan and Julian.

www.lionsstory.org

Julie Lythcott-Haims roots for humans. Humans need agency in order to make their way forward; Julie is deeply interested in what impedes us. She is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult, an anti-helicopter parenting manifesto which gave rise to one of the top TED Talks of 2016, and now has over 4 million views. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience with racism and her journey toward self-acceptance. A third book called How to BE an Adult, for young adults, is forthcoming. She is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, her mother, and her itinerant young adults.

Rosalind, a returning guest is the founder of Cultures of Dignity, a contributor and curriculum creator for the Anti-Defamation League and as a multiple New York Times Bestseller best known for being the author of Queen Bees and Wannabes: the groundbreaking, best-selling book that was the basis for the movie and Broadway Musical Mean Girls, and was fully revised for a third edition. Wiseman is the author of the Owning Up Curriculum, a comprehensive social justice program for grades 4-12 which is in widespread use across the world. She has been profiled in or written for The New York Times, TIME, and the Washington Post among others and is a frequent guest on the Today Show, CNN, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio. She lives in Boulder Colorado with her husband and two sons. [email protected]

Megan was a middle and high school educator for 12 years and is an expert in dignity and social-emotional learning. Her work combines research in neuroscience, conflict resolution, social responsibility, and critical thinking to create transformative approaches that develop the whole person. Megan specializes in creating programming that prioritizes the development of emotional intelligence and creates cultures of dignity. [email protected]

Link to the tiny guides:
https://store.culturesofdignity.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSg66kudFQ&feature=youtu.be

Increasing incidents of Xenophobia resulting from COVID-19, Rosetta Lee, Jenifer Moore, Shari Berga, Liza Talusan discuss Asian-Black solidarity.

Rosetta Lee is an educator at Seattle Girls' School and a consultant with non-profits, K-12 and Universities on topics such as cross-cultural communication, inclusive classrooms, and more tiny.cc/rosettalee.

Jenifer is the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Key School in Annapolis, MD. Jenifer has served children of Washington, DC area since 2003 as a teacher, tutor, and school leader. Jenifer is a native Washingtonian with a love for learning, a deep connection to the community, and a hunger to disrupt inequity in education.

Liza is a strategic consultant, scholar-practitioner, facilitator, and certified professional coach www.lizatalusan.com.

Shari is the Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney, MD. Having completed her M.Ed in Minority and Urban Education at the University of Maryland and an Ed.D. in Curriculum, Shari is committed to culturally sustaining pedagogy and teaching for social justice.

Jenifer and Shari organized this episode are two of the six women who founded The Wells Collective is a collaboration of diversity practitioners who specialize in professional development, consulting, and educational consulting https://www.thewellscollective.com/

Sherry Coleman is a search consultant and also a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) consultant. She was worked with a number of school types across the country doing senior management searches and also working with schools that need DEI consultancy.

Penny Evins and Nicole Defruchard talk about women in school leadership. Penny is the head of Collegiate School in Richmond, VA and Nicole is the head of Advent School in Boston, MA.

Ken E. Nwadike, Jr., is a peace activist, motivational speaker, and video journalist known as the Free Hugs Guy online. Nwadike Jr is the founder of the Free Hugs Project, which produces motivational videos to spread love, inspire change, and raise awareness of social issues. His ‘Free Hugs’ videos have reached hundreds of millions of views on Facebook and YouTube.

In 2014, Nwadike launched the Free Hugs Project to spread love in response to the bombing of the Boston Marathon. The Free Hugs Project gained popularity in 2016, as Nwadike made major news headlines for his peace-keeping efforts and de-escalating violence during protests, riots, and political rallies. Nwadike was featured in Google’s 2016 Year in Search video as a highlight of some of the year’s most defining moments. Nwadike has made many appearances on news programs and radio broadcasts worldwide, including CNN, USA Today, Good Morning Britain, and BBC News. Ken has spoken at hundreds of Colleges and Universities and is a favorite at high-schools and corporations. Ken was the 2017 featured keynote speaker at NACA National convention, and was also chosen to speak at the 2018 National convention and several regional NACA events.

Website: www.freehugsproject.com

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Ken's Contact:

Twitter:@FreeHugsProject

Facebook: @FreeHugsProject

Instagram: @freehugsproject.tv



Joel Gunzburg is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who is currently the Lower School Counselor at Sandy Spring Friends School. He has been working as a counselor in public and independent schools for nearly 20 years. Joel has spent the better part of his career designing, implementing, and teaching social-emotional learning classes for Pre-K through 12th-grade students. He is currently teaching these SEL classes to Pre-K through 5th-grade students at Sandy Spring Friends School once a week in a class called Shine.

Joel also has a group private practice in Bethesda, MD, where he and his team provide a variety of services for children, adolescents, young adults, and families to reach optimal quality of life.



Website: www.gunzburgandassociates.com



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Lawrence Alexander is the founding Director of Equity and Inclusion at Carney Sandoe and Associates. Alexander has spent over a decade working in college counseling and equity and inclusion at public and independent schools.

Link to his practice, https://www.carneysandoe.com/consulting-services/dei-consulting