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Safe Conversations About Race  

With Suzanne Roberts and Jim White

Live online through Zoom.

Join Suzanne Roberts, CEO of Unifying Solutions, and Jim White, CEO of Performance Consulting Services, for a compassionate and civil conversation regarding the complicated history of race in the United States.  

Registration is required for this free event. Please register no later than an hour before the event to guarantee delivery of instructions and access link to your email.

The Grandview Heights Public Library is committed to fostering education and lasting change against racism and racial inequality in our community. Explore the library's book lists, resources, events, and more at ghpl.org/antiracism. This event part is part of a community discussion series presented in partnership with Grandview Heights Schools with input from community members and leaders.

Join us for these upcoming discussions:

• Understanding Inequality in Metropolitan Neighborhoods  (July 8)
• The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: 100 Years Later (August 26)

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

• Suzanne Roberts is the Principal of UnifyingSolutions and the co-founder of Safe Conversation About Race.  Suzanne Roberts has worked as a trainer, speaker, and facilitator for small and large corporations, businesses, and non-profits since 1979. As a Certified Master Somatic Coach, she coaches leaders to become inspiring, on purpose, resilient, and effective in their perspective domains. Suzanne is dedicated to cultural diversity, social equity, and social justice.  She/they educates how social systems of oppression got designed, and incorporates an intersectional lens in their work, in order to bring about sustainable change. The process illuminates how historical forces operate today to limit human dignity and contribution in some groups of people, while benefiting an elite group of people.  While she/they cares about all marginalized communities, her primary focus is on interrupting and reducing racial harm due to systemic racism.  
  
  
• James A. White is a Master Training Management Consultant and executive coach with over 25 years of corporate, education, and government training and development experience. He is the owner and operator of Performance Consulting Services, a business performance training, development, coaching and consulting firm in Columbus. Some of his most recent professional highlights include; co-authoring a book on the topic of diversity and inclusion entitled; A Better World: Understanding How Your Personal Operating System Affects Culture, Diversity & Inclusion; James has over a million hits on his Tedtalk International presentation entitled: A Little Problem I Had While Trying To Rent A House and is featured in The Legacy Project – Echoing Greatness, a website designed to inspire people through the experiences and lessons learned from others. Known for his humorous, yet real world and impacting, informative training style, James is committed to the growth, development, and advancement of all people

RESOURCES FROM THE SPEAKERS

• Recommended Reading (as a start)
• Recommended Films (as a start)
• What You Can Do
  • Follow the steps on your “Safe Conversation About Race” Action Card. 
  • Support Minority Owned Businesses. 
  • Attend a workshop/training on diversity/inclusion and/or cultural competency.  
  • Identify your personal implicit bias by taking an IAT (Implicit Association Test) 
  • Learn about a different culture/identity that is different than your own.  
  • Have a courageous and dignified conversation about race with family, friends and co-workers.  
    
    

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