Authentic Dialogues: Talking about Racism and Moving to Action with Shay Stewart-Bouley May 21, Sunday 3pm
May 21, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Free
Authentic Dialogues: Talking about Racism and Moving to Actionwith Shay Stewart-Bouley
May 21, Sunday 3pm The goal is teaching, sharing, and learning practical tools for working in our own communities to combat racism and to start conversations on addressing racism and difference in predominantly white spaces. This session will allow participants to deepen their knowledge of racism in 2022, examine their own biases, and learn techniques for starting conversations on racism and how to be an effective ally. Mixture of lecture and small-group work. Funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Shelley O’Donnell & Susan Beane partnership.
Born and raised on a combination of big city attitude and Midwestern sensibility as a Chicago native, Shay Stewart-Bouley, also known as Black Girl in Maine (or BGIM), had to learn a bit of Yankee ingenuity when she relocated to Maine in 2002. After a brief foray into education, Shay bridged her socially minded work from Chicago (working with the homeless) to Maine by working with low-income and at-risk youth in Southern Maine, and she is currently the Executive Director of Community Change Inc., a 50-year-old anti-racism organization based in Boston that organizes and educates for racial equity with a specific focus on working with white people. Shay has been blogging since 2008 (frequently on matters of social justice and systemic racism) through her Black Girl In Maine website and, in 2011, she won a New England Press Association Award for her writing on race and diversity for the Portland Phoenix. Shay’s writing also has been featured in a variety of Maine and national publications as well as several anthologies. In November 2016, Shay gave a TEDx talk entitled “Inequity, Injustice… Infection.” Shay is a graduate of both DePaul University and Antioch University New England and, even though she works in Boston now, she is indeed still BGIM, continuing to reside in Maine.
Authentic Dialogues: Talking about Racism and Moving to Action with Shay Stewart-Bouley
May 21, Sunday 3pm The goal is teaching, sharing, and learning practical tools for working in our own communities to combat racism and to start conversations on addressing racism and difference in predominantly white spaces. This session will allow participants to deepen their knowledge of racism in 2022, examine their own biases, and learn techniques for starting conversations on racism and how to be an effective ally. Mixture of lecture and small-group work. Funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Shelley O’Donnell & Susan Beane partnership.
Born and raised on a combination of big city attitude and Midwestern sensibility as a Chicago native, Shay Stewart-Bouley, also known as Black Girl in Maine (or BGIM), had to learn a bit of Yankee ingenuity when she relocated to Maine in 2002. After a brief foray into education, Shay bridged her socially minded work from Chicago (working with the homeless) to Maine by working with low-income and at-risk youth in Southern Maine, and she is currently the Executive Director of Community Change Inc., a 50-year-old anti-racism organization based in Boston that organizes and educates for racial equity with a specific focus on working with white people. Shay has been blogging since 2008 (frequently on matters of social justice and systemic racism) through her Black Girl In Maine website and, in 2011, she won a New England Press Association Award for her writing on race and diversity for the Portland Phoenix. Shay’s writing also has been featured in a variety of Maine and national publications as well as several anthologies. In November 2016, Shay gave a TEDx talk entitled “Inequity, Injustice… Infection.” Shay is a graduate of both DePaul University and Antioch University New England and, even though she works in Boston now, she is indeed still BGIM, continuing to reside in Maine.
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