Dismantling Institutional Racism

From Kim Schmidl-Gagne, Academic Affairs: On Wednesday, March 25, anti-racist writer and activist Tim Wise will speak from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room.

Wise has provided anti-racism training to teachers nationwide and has trained physicians and medical industry professionals on how to combat racial inequities in health care. He has also trained corporate, government, entertainment, military, and law-enforcement officials on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions. He has served as a consultant for plaintiff’s attorneys in federal discrimination cases in New York and Washington State and is the author of Between Barak and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama.

This event is sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Multiculturalism, the Campus Commission on Diversity and Multiculturalism, Common Ground, the School for International Training, and a grant from the Pepsi Fund. For more information, contact Kim Schmidl-Gagne at 8-2768.