When we ask workshop participants whether they have done an activity called "the privilege walk" before, hands inevitably shoot up,…
Read full post about From the knapsack of privilege to the backpack of biasOn March 1, 2016, in the wake of Delaware North’s exploitation of trademark laws, many of the iconic places in…
Read full post about The real story behind the Yosemite trademarksPhoto above: Martin Luther King, Jr. marching from Selma to Montgomery with John Lewis, Reverend Jesse Douglas, James Forman and…
Read full post about What can outdoor and environmental organizations learn about inclusion from MLK’s experience?This post is dedicated to Vu Le at Nonprofit With Balls, whose bold nuggets of gold we can only aspire…
Read full post about What Does Cultural Relevancy Mean Anyway?In one of our early workshops, I was considering whether to share my personal experience of taking the Implicit Association…
Read full post about When in doubt, ask “in service of what?”In the spring, PGM ONE organizers asked me to write a piece about why white folks shouldn’t show up to…
Read full post about The role of white affinity spaces in anti-racism workWe are in the middle of our busiest month, where we are scheduled to give 12 days of workshops for…
Read full post about Why reverse -isms don’t existI was going to take the day off from work today, turn off my computer, and relax but I can't.…
Read full post about How do we move forward? Do the work.We will return to regular posting at the beginning of 2017, but in the meantime, we wanted to share a…
Read full post about Our post-election commitmentA statement by the founders of the Avarna Group. As a company, we’ve been quiet about the announcement of the…
Read full post about When you fail to do the workDear CNN, Like many colleagues, we were thrilled to see that the topic of diversity in the outdoors has made…
Read full post about Nature’s calling — for diversity to be about more than just raceIn the wake of Charlottesville this past weekend, I have been thinking quite a bit about how these events connect…
Read full post about Connection the dots: white supremacy and monuments
