Shift Lab Speaker Series: Shelly Tochluck

 

“Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It.”
Thursday, September 27 2018 at 7pm
Hyatt Place Edmonton (9576 Jasper Ave.)
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An educator, with a background in psychology, Shelly Tochluk spent ten years as a researcher, counselor, and teacher in California’s public schools. She now trains teachers to work with Los Angeles’ diverse school population as a professor in the Education Department at Mount Saint Mary’s University–Los Angeles. She is the author of Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It and Living in the Tension: The Quest for a Spiritualized Racial Justice. Free, downloadable workshop agendas and handouts aligned with each book are available at ShellyTochluk.com.

Shelly also works with AWARE-LA (Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere-Los Angeles). With this group, she co-produces a 4-day summer institute titled, Unmasking Whiteness, that leads white people into a deeper understanding of their personal relationship to race, white privilege, and systemic racism.

To learn more, visit Edmonton Shift Lab. If you have any questions, you can reach Edmonton Shift Lab at info@edmontonshiftlab.ca.