IPED Summer Lecture Series: Leading with a Conversation on Race with Nikko Viquiera, IPED ’13, of RaceForward

With the ongoing #BlackLivesMatter protests and calls for the abolition of police and prisons at the forefront, this one hour session will amplify the importance of talking about race and racism, not just as a moral imperative, but as a strategic tool for advancing racial justice in our communities and institutions.

Throughout this conversation, we will:

• talk about why it’s important to be race explicit and intersectional in our individual and institutional conversations
• dig into the construction of race on Turtle Island (what indigenous folks call the United States), and its implications for the racial disparities we see today
• talk about the distinctions between modern institutional terms such as diversity, inclusion, and equity, and what they mean for the fight for racial justice
• talk about some concrete shifts we can make towards de-centering whiteness and advancing racial equity within the U.S. and the rest of the world

As senior trainer for the movement and capacity building team of RaceForward, Viquiera facilitates racial justice trainings for people who want to advance racial equity within their institutions. In these trainings, Viquiera facilitates conversations about race to give folks common language, shared analysis, and necessary tools for normalizing and operationalizing racial justice in organizations.

This event is free and will be a webinar via Zoom. To join, please register email iped@fordham.edu to receive the link.

For more information about RaceForward and the trainings that they conduct, please visit RaceForward.