Brave Conversations That Center Race Cultivate Healing and Growth

I am given a decision point each day, to be in it, or not to be. That is my white-bodied experience, to choose. I am real about that,

and encourage other white bodied people to also choose to be in it, to greet the day, with, "yes, I am in."

Corey Dobyns

Creating space for racial healing is a salve for my soul. I yearn for others to join us in this life-long practice of unlearning and re-imaging a different way,
for that’s where true liberation resides. l am honored to be in community with the amazing women of ROC.

Staci Lynch / Radical Optimist Collective

This work allows me to bring together my passion for history, healing trauma and community-building,

and offer it to communities to strengthen our connections and heal our communities.

Vanessa Jackson / Radical Optimist Collective

Healing is possible when we recognize lived experiences cannot be disassociated from racial history and identity,

and that real solutions are co-created with people and not for them.

Lisa Flick Wilson / Radical Optimist Collective

Healing the impact racism has had on Black people is essential to achieving social and financial integrity,

as well as emotional and psychological equity.

Kenya Jackson-Saulters / Radical Optimist Collective

When doing this work, I draw from my ancestral strength to help increase understanding

about the relevance of the past and to build empathy between cultures.

Shakita Brooks Jones / Radical Optimist Collective