West Marion Inc. and Bigfoot Books & Brews welcome Melvin Bray, the Atlanta-based author of the new book UnLearn InEquity: An Invitation to Truth & Transformation.
Melvin will talk and do a Q&A, followed by this month’s West Marion Racial Equity Book Club discussion. Dinner will be provided.
FREE EVENT BUT RSVP IS REQUESTED. (please fill out form below:)
ABOUT MELVIN BRAY
Melvin Bray is a problem-solving and equity design specialist. Melvin has extensive experience and training in group facilitation, design thinking/doing, collaborative problem-solving, systems thinking, power dynamics, innovation strategy, community organizing, curriculum/program development, discovery learning, and sustainability. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including an EMMY® (NATAS) for outstanding storytelling.
Through Collabyrinth, Melvin helps communities of goodwill design better systems and structures, policies and practices, that transform persistently inequitable outcomes into equitable ones.
ABOUT UnLEARN InEQUITY
This is for you. Yes, you!
Whether you are a person of color, a woman, queer, poor, un/under-employed, under-educated, disabled, in poor health, or some combination thereof. This is also for you if you are white, male, straight, wealthy, healthy, Christian, highly educated, and/or currently able-bodied. Perhaps you don't fit neatly into any of these categories.
Whether you are historically privileged, historically marginalized, or a little of both, the journey charted herein is yours for the taking.
Why? Because we are all part of a society that is designed to advantage some, while disadvantaging others. Advantaging some while disadvantaging others is called inequity. Inequity harms us all in more ways than most know-morally, materially, spiritually, emotionally, intellectually, and even physically.
The medley of stories, essays, and activities found herein is an invitation to process through the personal and structural complexities of unlearning your participation in and acceptance of inequity.
Just as importantly, it is an invitation to heal.