About and Acknowledgements
About the Transforming White Privilege (TWP) Team
World Trust Educational Services is excited to continue the legacy and deepen the work of the TWP curriculum as of January 25, 2024. World Trust is one of the original co-creators of TWP along with MP Associates and The Center for Assessment and Policy Development (CAPD) which launched in 2016. They received support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to create resources that a wide variety of groups might use address white privilege and white dominant culture as part of their racial equity and social justice training. The subjects of white culture and white privilege are often taboo, even in those settings. In addition, even very willing practitioners did not feel they had a wide variety of effective resources to help them tackle the issues well and with positive results.
Contact us at twp@world-trust.org to learn more about the TWP curriculum!
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Pilot Sites, Phase One:
13th Annual White Privilege Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 2012.
Facilitators: Shakti Butler and Maggie Potapchuk
Observer: Gita Gulati-ParteePublic Allies, University of Delaware, May 2012.
Facilitators: Maggie Potapchuk and Gita Gulati-Partee
Observer: Sally LeidermanConnecticut Health Foundation, Health Leadership Fellows Program Alumni, June 2012.
Facilitators: Shakti Butler, Sally Leiderman, and Maggie Potapchuk
Pilot Sites, Phase Two:
Center for Diversity and Innovation at the Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek – Battle Creek, Michigan – January & February 2015.
Facilitators: Shakti Butler, Sally Leiderman, and Maggie PotapchukLakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance (located in Holland, Michigan, and serving western Michigan) – Grand Haven, Michigan – February 2015.
Facilitators: Shakti Butler, Sally Leiderman, and Maggie PotapchukMichigan Roundtable on Diversity and Inclusion – Southfield, Michigan – December 2015.
Facilitators: Shakti Butler, Sally Leiderman, and Maggie Potapchuk
Thank you to Gita Gulati-Partee for serving as a facilitator and observer during phase one of the curriculum’s development.
THANK YOU to all the participants of our pilot workshops for providing invaluable feedback in the development of the Transforming White Privilege curriculum.
Glossary
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Accountability [expands / contracts on click]
In the context of racial equity work, accountability refers to the ways in which individuals and communities hold themselves to their goals and actions, and acknowledge the values and groups to which they are responsible.
To be accountable, one must be visible, with a tra
Accountability [expands / contracts on click]
In the context of racial equity work, accountability refers to the ways in which individuals and communities hold themselves to their goals and actions, and acknowledge the values and groups to which they are responsible.
To be accountable, one must be visible, with a tra
“White America in the generality, he argued, refused to do such a thing because the exploration itself would reveal that the price of the ticket to be here in the United States was in fact to leave behind the particulars of Europe and become white. That transformation “choked many a human being to death,” because to become white meant the subjugation of others, an act that disfigured the soul by closing off the ability to see oneself in others, and to see them in oneself. Our task, Baldwin maintained, was to understand the history of how that disfiguring of the soul happened and, in doing so, to free oneself and the country from the insidious hold of whiteness in order to become a different kind of creation − a different way of being in the world.”
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Host Coordinators:
Tommy Fisher
Gail Harrison
Alfredo Hernandez
Elizabeth Krause
Sarah Salguera
Stacey Stevens
Jorge Zeballos
Transforming White Privilege Reviewers
Diane Goodman
Gita Gulati-Partee
Barbara Heisler
Tammy Johnson
Dia Penning
Niyonu Spann
Jesse Villalobos
Scott Winn
Funders:
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Everyday Democracy
Leadership Learning Community
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
