A special 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge Event! Co-hosted by Food Solutions New England and EmbraceRace! April 14, 8:30-9:30 pm (to accommodate attendees across multiple North American timezones)
How Then, Shall We Raise The Next Generations?: A Conversation About Parenting, Educating and Care-Giving of Brave Kids, Beloved Communities and Beautiful Multi-Racial Democracy
Melissa Giraud and Andrew Grant-Thomas founded EmbraceRace in early 2016 to create the community and gather the resources they needed to meet the challenges faced by those raising children in a world where race matters. Melissa is a first-generation American, multiracial (Black/white) daughter of a mother from Quebec and a father from Dominica. She has brought a racial equity and social justice lens to her work as a radio producer, storyteller, K-12 educator and ed tech strategist. Andrew is a Black man of Jamaican origins, born on the 4th of July. He is a long-time social justice and racial justice researcher and advocate. Andrew and Melissa have two girls, ages 11 and 13. They are also friends, neighbors and beloved colleagues of Food Solutions New England.
For the past 5 years, through EmbraceRace, and for much longer than that in other related work, Melissa and Andrew have been sifting through research and practice to find what actually works in nurturing race brave children and adults, fighters for equitable belonging and architects of multi-racial democracy.
Join us on Wednesday, April 14th, from 8:30-9:30 PM ET for this “fireside chat,” as part of FSNE’s 21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge, to hear what Melissa and Andrew and their partners have learned over the years, what promises they see and what we can start doing better today in our work and care for racial justice and equity.
