Important Conversations

   Building a Racially Equitable School with Drs. Eddie Moore, Jr. and Ali Michael

Raising Race Conscious Children: Part 3 of 3

Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 6:30 pm

40 Charlton Street, Performing Arts Center

Growing out of our conversations about race, both in general and its impact on our community, Ali and Eddie will lend their perspective as diversity practitioners who are familiar with efforts across the U.S. who work to build racially equitable schools. They will help us understand the systemic issues with regard to racial identity and history that led LREI to its current policies and practices and the larger landscape of the current racial context. This will be our last formal gathering in our series of parent conversations about race and equity that we have held this year.

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 featured in the 2015 Wisconsin Broadcasters Association’s Best Interview in Medium Market Radio, [http://www.wpr.org/shows/newsmakers-december-4-2014], and 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]. In 2014 he 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. 

Ali Michael, Ph.D., is the co-founder and director of the Race Institute for K-12 Educators, and the author of Raising Race Questions: Whiteness, Inquiry and Education (Teachers College Press, 2015), winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award.  She is co-editor of the bestselling Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories (2015, Stylus Press) and The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys (2018, Corwin Press).  She also sits on the editorial board of the journal Whiteness and Education.  Ali teaches in the Diversity and Inclusion Program at Princeton University as well as the Equity Summits with USC.  Ali’s article, What do White Children Need to Know About Race?, co-authored with Dr. Eleonora Bartoli in Independent Schools Magazine, won the Association and Media Publishing Gold Award for Best Feature Article in 2014.  She may be best known for her November 9, 2016 piece What Do We Tell the Children? on the Huffington Post, where she is a regular contributor. For more details see www.alimichael.org.