We want to offer an intensive Undoing Racism and Oppression workshop to our dedicated group of youth farmers and community activists, apprentices and staff.
Understanding racism is hard
work, and understanding how to work towards personal and institutional change
is even harder. Please help us work on these important topics so that we can
improve our lives and our community fully through our work as food justice
advocates and community change agents.
The workshops will focus on understanding what racism is, where it comes
from, how it functions, why it persists and how it can be undone. Our workshops will utilize a systemic approach that emphasizes learning from history, developing leadership and maintaining accountability to communities, creating networks, undoing internalized racial oppression and understanding the role of organizational gate keeping as a mechanism for perpetuating racism.
We are so excited to be
partnering with 2 amazing experienced NYC based facilitators,
Monica Dennis is a Community Organizer and Anti Oppression Trainer. She is also the Co-Founder of
The Spirit of A Woman Leadership Development Institute a community-based
organization committed to creating transformative and inspiring educational
experiences. S.O.W. believes that focused attention on how we frame educational
and societal experiences greatly impacts the cultural, academic, social and
personal development of young people and educators, in particular, and the
community as a whole.
For the past 20 years, she served as a consultant and an advisor to various global organizations, and academic and religious institutions, seeking her expertise on implementing her youth leadership model into their programming.
Rachael Ibrahim has spent over nine years
as a community organizer and the past five years with a greater focus on youth
populations. Rachael’s work is grounded in leadership development, civic
responsibility and social action. Using her passion for the fine arts and
the African Diaspora, Rachael has worked with student groups to create social
change locally and globally using an anti-oppression framework.
Rachael has conducted
numerous trainings with adults and young people on topics ranging from team
building, community development, conflict resolution, anti-oppression,
addressing the isms, and community service learning theories and application.
- Find out more about Rachael HERE
We know that to achieve food justice we must address issues of
racism and oppression. Please help us by donating today.
The Youth Farm is an educational production
farm in central Brooklyn that offers New Yorkers opportunities to increase
their knowledge of the food system and build high level organic growing skills
to share with their communities. The Youth Farm grows organic food and flowers
on one acre for the community and beyond, and offers advanced farm training and
leadership opportunities for youth and adults.
