Anti-Racist Work Underway at Mount Madonna, By Shannon Kelly

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COMMUNITY NEWS Anti-Racist Work Underway at Mount Madonna

By Shannon Kelly

On Nov. 11, the staff and faculty of Mount Madonna School gathered via Zoom for a workshop entitled, “Building on Cultural Assets and Strengths: One Step to Developing an Anti-Racist and Inclusive Climate.” The session was a follow-up to a training in September with Enid Lee, a consultant who has been working with educators for 40 years. At the outset, Enid asked us to think

Shannon Kelly about the ways in which COVID-19 is exposing issues of inequity in the workplace. This created an open dialogue and highlighted why it is so important to engage diverse perspectives when making decisions.

By grounding the conversation in an immediate, highly visible, and universal issue such as COVID, Enid illustrated how inequity is present in so many aspects of our lives, and how proactive we need to be to combat it.

As a result, we decided to survey faculty and staff and include their feedback when crafting our policy on inclement weather. While this may seem like a small thing, it shows how inviting more voices into the conversation can expand one’s ability to navigate and solve problems.

During the workshop, Enid Lee cited three main aspects of anti-racism work: Enid Lee

1. Name racism (Enid shared Camara

Phyllis Jones’s assertion that racism is a system of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks, which is what we call race, which unfairly disadvantages some individuals and communities and unfairly advantages other individuals and communities.

Racism saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources.) 2. Ask how racism is operating in the environments you are a part of 3. Organize and strive to dismantle racism

“Fighting Racism” page 10