Real allies have real conversations. Let's give white women the tools to build true collaboration.
It's time to move beyond protests and petitions. It's time to take the steps beyond corporate statements. It's time for white women to become students of racial inequity to understand how they benefit within these oppressive systems and learn how to dismantle the inequities Black women face. There's so much we don't understand about other's experiences. White women are afraid to say the wrong thing and don't know exactly where to start. Let's start at the beginning.
Denise Hamilton and Jenna Arnold will lead women through this tough conversation on how individuals can contribute and make an authentic impact on systematic racism. Whether as an ally, activist, actor or accomplice, the real work derives from confronting and challenging all people, policies and systems that maintain privileges and power for white people. From Denise's own perspective and extensive work in inclusion training and from Jenna's research studying the most influential demographic in America—white women—these allies will help women across the country learn how to form the ultimate power ally-ance that we've all been waiting for.
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The Format:
60 minute conversation(s) on a virtual platform hosted by Denise and Jenna with an opportunity for audience interaction.
The Audience:
Determined by the sponsor. Co-hosted with community partners, brand stakeholders, and/or internally at your organization.
The Takeaway:
Learn and listen to women and remain constant students sharing in the fight against racial injustice.
Consider adding a Listening Circle: Ideal for small groups of white women
Through a series of disarming and existential questions, Jenna disarms participants to be honest about the confusions, regrets, and often, contradicting perspectives on the state of the world. Through these vulnerable conversations participants confront their privilege, power and their potential to do more good. Recommended as an add-on to any engaged community event.
About Denise:
Denise Hamilton is a highly requested speaker and trainer as well as media personality whose platform has reached and served thousands of women all over the world. As Founder of WatchHerWork, Denise has developed workshops and programs that have empowered the lives of women, and altered the trajectory of careers and businesses all over the country. Denise has been featured on NPR, Forbes, FOX, Huffington Post, CBS, NBC and most recently as the host of Project Comeback on Lifetime.
About Jenna:
Jenna Arnold was one of the National Organizers of the Women’s March in 2017 and Oprah named her as one of her “100 Awakened Leaders who are using their voice and talent to elevate humanity”. For her work as the co-founder of ORGANIZE—focused on ending the waitlist for organ transplants in the US, Jenna was named one of Inc Magazine's "20 Most Disruptive Innovators" and the New York Times called it one of "the biggest ideas in social change". Her first book, Raising Our Hands, highlights how white women can stop avoiding hard conversations, start accepting responsibility, and find their place on the new frontlines.
A sample conversation featuring Jenna Arnold, author of Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place On the New Frontlines, and Denise Hamilton, CEO of WatchHerWork. They discuss how individuals can contribute and make an authentic impact on systematic racism.