On this episode, we welcome McKay Chamberlain.

As Principal Consultant at Adaptive Equity Solutions, McKay advises organizations and national policy networks on centering equity and inclusion in their organizational practices as they work to strengthen their commitment to racial justice. 

Before becoming an organizational consultant, McKay served as the President and CEO of Kansas Action for Children (KAC), the executive director of the Kansas Center for Economic Growth and a former Rockwood Leadership Fellow, Sunflower Foundation Advocacy Fellow, and was appointed to the Kansas Children’s Cabinet and the Governor’s Education Council.

Throughout our conversation, McKay will touch on many turning points in approaching their work, and how not even racial equity, but just racial awareness can be a struggle for both individuals and organizations. 

We’ll talk about breaking through or moving beyond the shame and guilt that this can surface, and instead working toward a place of productive and supportive action. 

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On this episode we welcome Dr. Paula Dressel.

Paula is the Vice President of JustPartners, Inc., and the former Director of Planning, Research, and Development at the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Paula’s first career was as a Professor of Sociology and an administrator at Georgia State University in Atlanta. 

Paula is an original member of the Race Matters Institute. Through the Race Matters Institute, she has teamed for more than 15 years to help advance the racial equity aspirations of organizations and networks across the United States.

In this episode she’ll share some insight on her phrase that racial equity is urgent life long work. 

She’ll speak the continual development of her own racial identity and how she  has tapped into both her own experiences as well as a wide array of external resources.

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Welcome to the first episode of White People Make Everything About Race.

In season one we’re going to be speaking with racial equity and justice practitioners, people who have had a direct focus on supporting and encouraging others to take a race informed approach to their work and how they show up in the world.

This episode’s guest, Erin Heaney, is the Executive Director of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), organizing in majority-white communities to bring millions of white people into multi-racial movement. 

You’ll hear Erin talk about her own growth and development and you’ll also get a chance to hear her speak about the network of over 150 local groups that SURJ has developed and how predominantly white poor and working class, even and particularly in rural and Southern communities are critical to racial justice. 

She’ll also touch on how overlapping systems of racism and oppression have intentionally divided people from each other and their own self interests, and even their ability to form meaningful relationships.

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This is a pod reflecting on the year that has passed since the white supremacist massacre in Buffalo, NY. 

It's by a white guy, primarily directed toward other people who are identified as white. 

In the coming week you will likely, and rightly, see many articles, posts, videos, and more about this heavy anniversary. 

If you have time for only one, I suggest you choose one by an author, creator, or host that is Black or African-American whose community was directly targeted and impacted. 

If, after hearing from folks whose voices should remain in the foreground, you are still wondering how to live into your values in the face of encroaching white supremacy, please listen in.

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This show asks the question: what does it mean to be well meaning and white in a society that has failed to fully address racial disparities?

Like most people I know, I believe some pretty simple things about the way society should work. I believe that every person and every family, regardless or how they look, where they live, or what their starting point is, should have a fair chance at opportunity. 

I started this show because race — my whiteness — has had a huge impact on me personally and professionally, but I didn’t realize that until much later in life than I should have. 

If you’re white like me, you’ve probably been told it’s not polite to talk about race. But have you ever really even thought about race? About your own race? About what it means for you?

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Welcome to White People Make Everything About Race: a podcast for well-meaning white people trying to make sense of their own racial identity.

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