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Hello EmbraceRace Friends!
We're thrilled to welcome all of you who found us recently to the EmbraceRace community.
EmbraceRace is a community of support for parents, teachers and other caring adults who want to raise kids who are informed, thoughtful and brave about race. Our Talking Race & Kids conversations are one way we make space for ongoing learning and sharing around important race and kids issues. We hope you'll join us for for this Thursday night's webinar, “Rays of Hope”: Supporting the leadership & activism of our young people. More information follows.
Yours,
Andrew and Melissa
Co-Founders of EmbraceRace
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Thursday, June 11th, at 5:30 pm PT/8:30 pm ET.
Our children and youth are not simply “future adults.” They are fully realized people with observations and opinions about the worlds they live in and aspirations about the ones they want to bring into being. On issues from climate change to living-with-HIV to police brutality, young people - children, in some cases - are leading the way.
Join us for a conversation about how parents, teachers, and other adults can support children's activism and advocacy while keeping them emotionally and physically safe and managing our own fears for their safety. As always, we'll welcome your questions and insights.
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As with all Talking Race & Kids webinars, registration is free. If you register, you’ll receive a link to the recording, the transcript, and relevant resources in the days following the live event. Spread the word! Forward this email or share our post about this event on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
We've been asked if our webinars are appropriate for kids. Although adults are the intended audience for Talking Race & Kids conversations, some children, especially older children, will find the discussion interesting and helpful as well. Our own 9 and 12-year-olds usually aren't interested in watching our webinars, but they're in the background when we do them and we don't worry about what they overhear. We're comfortable because we know our girls and conversations about race have been routine in our home for a long time. We can't make that decision for other families with young kids.
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 Lisa Richardson Hall is founder of Rays of Hope, which teaches Central New Jersey youth from 8 to 18 the importance of community service, leadership, advocacy and personal responsibility. A daughter of the City of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Lisa is a servant leader who lent her talents to the Girl Scouts of America for many years. In 2015, in the wake of high-profile incidents of police brutality, Rays of Hope joined forces with community leaders in Perth Amboy to organize the Youth Organized for Unity March on MLK Day 2015. The organization currently has an active membership of approximately 60 young people.
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Jessica K. Taft is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the political lives of children and youth in North and South America. Specifically, she writes about youth activism and the ways that girls, children, and youth participate in social movements. She has written two books, The Kids Are in Charge: Activism and Power in Peru’s Movement of Working Children (2019) and Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas (2011).
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Alina de Zoysa is a senior at the STEM Academy at Jackson Memorial High School and president of Rays of Hope. Among her many advocacy experiences, Alina created an online petition to stop lunch shaming in the state of New Jersey that received over 2,500 signatures and spoke with Congressman Donald Paine Jr. about the importance of serving the low-income areas across New Jersey. She participates in LEAD for Diversity, the Girl Scouts, TeenSHARP, and the YesSheCanCampaign, among other activities, and is a member of the Science Honor Society, the Mathematics Honor Society, and the National Honor Society.
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