How to talk to children about race and racism with Angela Ma Brown

How to engage in Courageous Conversations with children about race/racism

Wednesday Nov 30th

7-8:30pm on ZOOM

Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88945279412

This workshop will engage participants in courageous conversations, experiential learning and empathy building activities to unpack and respond to the harmful impacts of prejudice, discrimination, racism and oppression.

-Four Agreements of Courageous Conversations

-Race as a social construct

-4 goals of anti-bias education for children: identity, diversity, justice and activism

-commonly asked questions

-resource sharing

Angela Ma Brown is a first-generation Chinese occupier (uninvited person) on the unceded (stolen/unsurrendered), shared and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.

Angela has been teaching at the Vancouver School Board for 23 years. She held the Anti-racism and Diversity Consultant position for 7 years and was the seconded to SFU as a Faculty Associate for 3 years to mentor student teachers in the Indigenous Perspectives Teacher Education Module. She is currently a District Mentor supporting early career teachers in Vancouver. Angela holds an undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology from UBC and Master's degree in Diversity in Curriculum an instruction from SFU.

Angela also works as an Education Consultant in the areas of Anti-racism/Anti-oppression education, Diversity awareness and Social Justice in Metro Vancouver school communities and community-based organizations across BC.