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Debby Irving: I'm A Good Person! Isn't That Enough?

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Racial justice educator and author, Debby Irving, examines how she used her white-skewed belief system to interpret the world around her, and how she came to shift that paradigm. Her presentation will be followed by a moderated Q&A session with an invited panel. The moderator is Reverend Dana Allen Walsh, Senior Pastor of South Church in Andover. Panelists include Bria Gadsden, Elizabeth Walther-Grant, and Mayara Reis, founders of Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices, and Amaryllis Lopez, Program Director at Elevated Thought. The program is sponsored by Courageous Conversations and 8 Merrimack Valley Libraries - Andover, Burlington, Haverhill, Lawrence, Methuen, North Andover, Tewksbury & Wilmington.

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Sep 29, 2020 07:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Sep 29, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Debby Irving: I'm A Good Person! Isn't That Enough? Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zzhzheMhRVGp1Q3oYgl2ww After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Debby Irving I’m a white woman, raised in Winchester, Massachusetts during the socially turbulent 1960s and ‘70s. After a blissfully sheltered, upper-middle-class suburban childhood, I found myself simultaneously intrigued and horrified by the racial divide I observed in Boston. From 1984 to 2009 my work in urban neighborhoods and schools left me feeling helpless. Why did people live so differently along racial lines? Why were student outcomes so divergent? My book Waking Up White is the story of my two-steps-forward-one-step back journey away from racial ignorance. I continue to study racism and strategies for its undoing while working to educate other white people confused and frustrated by racism. Mayara Reis, Elizabeth Walther-Grant, Bria Gadsden (Co-Founders @Merrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices) Mayara Reis was born in Brazil and raised in North Andover. She is a paralegal and attends UMass Lowell where she studies Criminal Justice and Crime and Mental Health. Elizabeth Walther-Grant was born in Florida and grew up in Andover. She is a licensed Esthetician and published makeup artist. Bria Gadsden grew up in Boston and resides in North Andover. She graduated from UMass Amherst with a B.S. in Science in Nutrition and earned a Master's in Community Health from Merrimack College. Amaryllis Lopez (Program Director @Elevated Thought) Amaryllis Lopez (she/her) is Elevated Thought's program director. Lopez is an Afro-Puerto Rican cultural worker, born and raised in Lawrence, MA. Her work explores themes of womanhood, colonialism, and Blackness. Lopez holds a B.A. in English with minors in Latin American & Caribbean Studies and African American Studies from Bridgewater State University.

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