Caucusing Month: Our Community of Practice

The Collective on Racial Equity (CORE), in partnership with the Food Systems Leadership Network (FSLN), invites you to join a series of caucus spaces designed as a community of practice.

This offering includes a BIPOC community of praxis and a European American community of praxis.

Each space is an opportunity to reflect, reconnect, and deepen how you show up in your racial equity work.

These sessions are not about taking in more information. They are about practice—how this work lives in our bodies, our relationships, and our everyday choices.

We’re excited to be working with Ebony Ross and Elizabeth Woodson, who will guide these spaces with a deep commitment to care and accountability.

We invite you to come as you are, and to be in process with others.

Click Here to Register for the BIPOC Caucus

May 8th & May 22nd (Virtual – 10:00 am – 12:30 PM ET)

Click Here to Register for the White and White-Passing Caucus 

May 8th & May 22nd (Virtual – 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm ET)

MORE INFO ABOUT THESE SESSIONS BELOW

Session Goals

Participants will deepen awareness of racial identity and lived experience
Engage in embodied and reflective practices
Strengthen capacity for accountability and relational engagement
Explore pathways toward healing, connection, and transformation
Build connection with others committed to racial equity practice

What Participants Can Expect

BIPOC Caucus: Community of Praxis

Centered on healing, reflection, and collective growth 

An affinity group For BIPOC individuals only
Guided reflection on internalized oppression and racial identity
Somatic and embodied practices
Community dialogue rooted in care and accountability
Exploration of personal and collective narratives
Invitations into healing and transformation

European American Caucus: Community of Praxis

Focused on accountability, reflection, and practice

An affinity group For White and white passing individuals only 

Active practice space for participants racialized as white or white-passing
Engagement with truthtelling, embodiment, calling in, and root culture
Reflection on engaging other white people in racial justice work
Grounding in movement history and collective responsibility
Development of skills for accountability and relational practice

Engagement with four core practices that are vital to racial repair: truthtelling, embodiment, calling in, and root culture
Learning from Elders to fortify our courage and to ensure that our actions are aligned with the collective movement for repair and liberation

What these spaces ARE
A place for reflection, practice, and accountability
Rooted in storytelling, somatics, and lived experience
An opportunity to deepen your personal and collective work
Grounded in respect for all participants and their experiences

What these spaces ARE NOT
An introductory training on race or racism
A debate space or place to prove knowledge
A space for comparison of oppression or harm
A space where harm goes unaddressed

Facilitators

Ebony Ross

Click Here to Register for the BIPOC Caucus

May 8th & May 22nd (10:00 am – 12:30 PM ET)

Ebony Ross is a Coach and Consultant who partners with social justice leaders, organizers, and movement builders to provide thought partnership, leadership development, and organizational development strategies that connect heart, vision, and strategy. She has spent three decades working collaboratively to support and build beloved communities, creating and facilitating communities of practice, fellowships, and cohorts that provide learning resources and strategies for healing, love, and connection. Ebony is an experiential trainer and organizational strategist with extensive experience facilitating and leading large-scale change and emergent strategy initiatives, creating and implementing year-long fellowships and cohorts, and leading collective impact and community mobilization projects. She brings warmth and a decisive nature to her work and loves to cook delicious food for the people she loves. She secretly thinks that she should be a backup dancer for Janet Jackson and enjoys long walks with her husband and dogs.

Elizabeth Woodson

Click Here to Register for the White and White-Passing Caucus 

May 8th & May 22nd (1:00 pm – 3:30 pm ET)

Elizabeth is a 12th generation European American settler descended from people of Celtic and Germanic cultures. For over a decade, Elizabeth has worked towards racial equity through philanthropy at the Emerson Collective, direct services at Columbus House and the Bridgeport Public Defenders, and public education at the Equal Justice Initiative where she contributed to the research, development and opening of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Informed by growing up in segregated Fairfield County, Connecticut and fighting sexual violence as student body president at Stanford University, Elizabeth is an experienced Theater of the Oppressed facilitator, community organizer, and researcher. Elizabeth lives on the ancestral homelands of the Maskoke people, colonially known as Montgomery, Alabama.