Power Building for Racial Equity

LEARNING AREA: Racial Equity
Jun. 2025
26
Partner Events
Race Forward
Online

12:00pm

Duration:

6 hours 30 minutes

Location

Online

Description

This workshop focuses on the role of power when addressing systemic racism and advancing racial justice. Systemic racism is a system of power–hierarchical, coercive, and oppressive power–based on race. Racial justice, to be achieved and sustained, also requires power–inclusive, collective, and liberatory power. As we do the work of racial justice, power plays a critical role and needs to be explicitly examined and deliberately transformed. When power is ignored, unjust patterns of power can be unintentionally replicated. This workshop provides an opportunity for reflection, sharing tips and tools, and exploring ways to transform power in your racial justice work, whether internal-facing (within your organization) and/or external-facing (with your community or the broader society).

Racial and social justice activists, organizers, and educators are seeking more frameworks and tools for deepening their work.