With a deep awareness that racism goes beyond personal prejudice, Crossroads was co-founded in 1986 by Joseph Barndt and Susan Birkelo to develop new directions in understanding and combating the root causes of institutional racism. Our trainings provide a framework for institutions that are striving to achieve anti-racist and anti-oppressive transformation. This includes consulting with and supporting institutional leadership in a structural analysis of internal policies and procedures that maintain white power and privilege; and helping them create anti-racism teams who build an intervention strategy to dismantle these oppressive systems. All this is accomplished while at the same time creating structures of accountability to People and Communities of Color, both within the institution and in the wider community where they live and do business.
“How to Talk About Race” – a conversation with Robette Dias on the Commonwealth Journal hosted by Janis A. Pryor. Originally aired 11/15/2009 on WUMB, a National Public Radio affiliate owned by the University of Massachusetts:
Our Mission:
The mission of Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training is to dismantle systemic racism and build anti-racist multicultural diversity within institutions and communities. This mission is implemented primarily by training institutional transformation teams, and is guided by the following principles:
The work of Crossroads is based upon a systemic analysis of racism and its individual, institutional and cultural manifestations;
Crossroads seeks to be accountable in its work to those who share a common analysis of racism, and especially to communities of color;
Crossroads understands its anti-racism work to be part of a national and global movement for racial justice and social equality;
Crossroads recognizes that resistance to racism also requires resistance to all other forms of social inequality and oppression.
Our Organization:
Crossroads is an anti-racist/anti-oppressive 501(c)(3) organization. Our board is 65% People of Color and 55% women; our staff is 80% People of Color and 100% women. Leadership in Crossroads includes the administrative staff team, Board of Directors, and the Core Organizer/Trainers and Trainer Apprentices Round Table (COTA). All are multi-racial groups that include African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Latina/os, and Whites. There are multiple other layers of diversity including sexual identity, faith/spirituality, age, income, and education.
What Others are Saying About Us:
COMMUNITY CHANGE PROCESSES AND PROGRESS IN ADDRESSING RACIAL INEQUITIES
This 2007 Aspen Institute Roundtable for Community Change report tells the stories of four communities working on racial justice. Two of the four communities profiled use the Crossroads organizing and training model. The first, Seattle Office of Civil Rights, identifies Crossroads as its partner in the work (profile begins on page 21). The second, St. Cloud, Minnesota (profile begins on page 30), identifies the Minnesota Churches Anti-Racism Initiative (MCARI) as having provided leadership. MCARI is one of Crossroads Regional Partners and they share our organizing and training model.
Robette Ann Dias has been Executive Co-Director and Core Organizer-Trainer for Crossroads since 2002. Formerly, Robette was an anti-racism program coordinator for the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Faith In Action Department, providing training, technical support and advocacy for the Journey Toward Wholeness anti racism initiative. As a Karuk Indian, Robette brings a specifically indigenous perspective to anti-racism organizing. She is a founding member and past president of Diverse & Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM), the continental support and advocacy organization for Unitarian Universalist People of Color. She is currently Board President of Oyate, a Native American resource and advocacy organization.
PAKOU HER
Director, Leadership Development Institute, Core Organizer/Trainer
PHer@crossroadsantiracism.org
PaKou Her, a second-generation Asian American of Hmong descent, began anti-racism work as a college student organizer. Her student organizing led to the birth of the Dismantling Racism Group at Macalester College (St. Paul, MN), a collective student, faculty, staff, administrative, and community organization designed to educate and organize against institutional racism in higher education. Additionally, PaKou developed a comprehensive English language curriculum with content rooted in Hmong culture and history, and has also worked at the Minnesota Children’s Museum developing educational programming and advancing an early childhood anti-racism/anti-bias initiative. She takes particular interest in the psychosocial trauma that racial oppression creates in and among People of Color, and believes that unifying People of Color in the midst of white supremacist culture is a revolutionary act. Currently, she is Director of the Leadership Development Institute at Crossroads and a Core Organizer/Trainer. PaKou lives in Missouri with her spouse and daughter.
ANNE STEWART
Core Organizer/Trainer, Anti-Bias/Anti-Racism Education Trainer
H.AnneStewart@crossroadsantiracism.org
Anne Stewart has worked as an Organizer-Trainer for Crossroads since 1992. She believes that her life experience has prepared her to focus on systemic racism. That experience includes: growing up in Mississippi, teaching high school English on Chicago’s South and West Sides, counseling individuals and couples, teaching and social work in an Early Childhood setting, and parenting and grandparenting African Americans.
DEBRA M. RUSSELL
Director of Management & Resources
info@crossroadsantiracism.org
Debra Russell joined the staff of Crossroads in September 1998. Based in the Chicago area, she coordinates the organization’s training events and is responsible for financial administration. She is also on the Leadership Team at Crossroads. Debra is a member of the anti-racism team in the Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She and Michael, her life partner of more than 25 years, are parents of two sons and a daughter. Debra fantasizes about using her spare time in community theater, filming documentaries, and creating a stand-up comedy act, but would be satisfied to read the stack of books near her bedside, weed her flower garden and finish a quilt.
ELLEN NUECHTERLEIN
Communications & Development
ellen@crossroadsantiracism.org
Ellen has been with Crossroads since 1998, when she began as an office assistant. Over the years her responsibilities have expanded, and she now administers fundraising and communication efforts. As such, she is the staff representative on the Communications & Development Committee. Ellen was a founding member of Coming Together Racine and served as Co-Chair until her relocation to Kalamazoo, MI where she now serves on the Board of ERAC/CE (Ending Racism and Claiming/Celebrating Equality). Ellen and her spouse are the busy parents of five sons.
Mr. James Addington is a training and organizational development consultant with the Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative (MCARI), and previously served for eleven years as its co-director. Mr. Addington has 30 years experience in local community development, leadership training, organizational development and strategic planning. He spent 10 years outside the U.S. in a variety of local and regional development projects, including Jamaica, Venezuela, India, the Philippines, and Nigeria. For nine years he directed the Lutheran Coalition for Public Policy in Minnesota (an advocacy and public policy education arm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America); and served as adjunct faculty at Luther Seminary. Formerly on the Board of Crossroads, Mr. Addington currently serves as a Crossroads training consultant.
Joy Bailey is a core organizer and trainer for Crossroads. She also serves on Crossroads’ board. Joy taught high school Spanish for six years in Kalamazoo, MI and is currently a part time instructor at Western Michigan University teaching courses on race and racism in education. Joy has been doing local anti-racism organizing at Immanuel Christian Reformed Church and in Kalamazoo Public Schools for over eight years. Although originally from North Dakota, Joy now lives with her husband, Ryan, in Kalamazoo, MI.
Ryan Bailey is a high school English teacher and anti-racism activist. Ryan has worked on anti-racism organizing within his local congregation as well as within the public schools. Ryan is also active in working on other justice issues, such as educational reform, fair trade issues, community sustainable agriculture, etc. Ryan is a Nationally Board Certified teacher and has his masters degree in Educational Leadership from Michigan State University. Ryan and his partner Joy live in Kalamazoo MI where he also enjoys reading, writing, cooking, tennis, outdoor activities, and wine making.
Willard Bass is the director/organizer of the Institute for Dismantling Racism. He is active as a Crossroads organizer/ trainer apprentice and currently serves of the Board of Directors as Treasurer. Bass spent a number of years with the RJR Packaging Company before becoming manager/partner of Bass and Jones Construction, LLC. He is the Assistant Pastor of Outreach, Green Street United Methodist Church, Winston-Salem, NC. He is currently engaged in a broad range of civic and church activities, all focused in various ways on building and enhancing community and dismantling racism. Willard has been married to Shirley Lewis Bass for more than 31 years. They have three children who are making vocations in medicine and industry.
Jyaphia Christos-Rodgers lives in New Orleans where she is an organizer, educator, sociologist and community builder rooted in an anti-racist-anti oppressive approach. She is a co-founder of the post Katrina Rebirth Volunteer Center located at First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans and chairs the board of the Center for Ethical Living and Social Justice Renewal (CELSJR), the UU based non profit that runs the Rebirth center. Jyaphia helped develop and co-facilitates the Rebirth Center’s “Dialogue on Race, Class and Katrina” which is a part of the volunteer experience for every volunteer. As a program planner and evaluator, as well as organizer, she has worked for institutional transformation over the last twenty years with The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, with the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Jubilee and Groundwork anti racism training teams, and most recently, with Crossroads Anti Racism as well as numerous New Orleans human service agencies.
Louise Derman-Sparks was a human development faculty member at Pacific Oaks College from 1974-2007. Previously, Ms. Derman-Sparks worked with young children and families as an early childhood education teacher and program director. She is the author and co-author of several books, including: Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children, (National Association for the Education of Young Children); Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach (with Carol Brunson Phillips, Teachers College Press); In Our Own Way: How Anti-Bias Work Shapes Our Lives and Future Vision, Current Work: Lessons from the Culturally Relevant Anti-Bias Education Leadership Project (Redleaf Press); and “What If All the Kids are White?” Anti-bias/ Multicultural Education with Young Children and Families (with Dr. Patricia Ramsey, Teachers College Press, April 2006); and the recently published 2nd edition of Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves (with Julie Olsen Edwards, NAYEC 2009). Ms. Derman-Sparks speaks, conducts workshops and consults widely throughout the United States and internationally. A former member of the Governing Board of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (1998-2002), she currently works with Crossroads and is on the National Diversity Advisory Council of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Ms. Derman-Sparks is the mother of an adult son and daughter, Douglass and Holly Sparks, and has been an activist for social justice for 40 years.
Robette Ann Dias has been Executive Co-Director and Core Organizer-Trainer for Crossroads since 2002. Formerly, Robette was an anti-racism program coordinator for the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Faith In Action Department, providing training, technical support and advocacy for the Journey Toward Wholeness anti racism initiative. As a Karuk Indian, Robette brings a specifically indigenous perspective to anti-racism organizing. She is a founding member and past president of Diverse & Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM), the continental support and advocacy organization for Unitarian Universalist People of Color. She is currently Board President of Oyate, a Native American resource and advocacy organization.
Emily M. Drew is an organizer and core trainer with Crossroads. She teaches Sociology and American Ethnic Studies at Willamette University in Oregon and her primary areas of teaching and research revolve around race, racism, and antiracism. Drew received her education from Jesuit universities, as well as from the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond in New Orleans where she contributed to organizing a freedom school and doing activist work against racism with European Dissent. She is active in social justice work including educational reform, environmental justice, and the abolition of the prison-industrial complex. As an anti-racist white person, Drew is committed to understanding how white power and privilege de-humanize white society, and is considering what white people have to gain with an end to racism.
Bill Gardiner currently works as an anti-racism consultant in the Unitarian Universalist Association. He is also a member of the Board of Crossroads Anti-Racism Organizing and Training. Bill was the Director for Anti-racism and Social Justice Empowerment Programs in the Department for Faith in Action at the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston, Massachusetts from 1990 till 2004. Before that, Bill served as a parish minister in Washington, DC; Nashville, Tennessee; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PaKou Her, a second-generation Asian American of Hmong descent, began anti-racism work as a college student organizer. Her student organizing led to the birth of the Dismantling Racism Group at Macalester College (St. Paul, MN), a collective student, faculty, staff, administrative, and community organization designed to educate and organize against institutional racism in higher education. Additionally, PaKou developed a comprehensive English language curriculum with content rooted in Hmong culture and history, and has also worked at the Minnesota Children’s Museum developing educational programming and advancing an early childhood anti-racism/anti-bias initiative. She takes particular interest in the psychosocial trauma that racial oppression creates in and among People of Color, and believes that unifying People of Color in the midst of white supremacist culture is a revolutionary act. Currently, she is Director of the Leadership Development Institute at Crossroads and a Core Organizer/Trainer. PaKou lives in Missouri with her spouse and daughter.
Art has lived and worked as a social worker and community organizer in multi-cultural settings for over 30 years. For 22 years he directed the Kalamazoo Deacons’ Conference, a charitable organization in Kalamazoo’s Northside Neighborhood. Since 1994, Art has joined with others who seek to support racial justice and systemic transformation in Southwest Michigan and nationally. As an Anti-Racism Core Organizer/Trainer, he now works mostly with ERAC/CE, a regional multi-cultural anti-racism organizing group networking with inside organizers in dozens of institutions from all sectors of southwest Michigan communities. Art currently serves on the Board of Crossroads as Secretary. He enjoys composting, gardening, canning, cooking, and especially eating with family and friends.
Mary Pat Martin is an Early Childhood Education professional with experience as a director of an Early Childhood Program. She is currently a professor at Oakton Community College in Illinois. She has an M.A. in Early Childhood and a M.Ed. Mary Pat has also been an elementary and pre-school teacher and an early childhood education consultant in the Chicago area. She has done extensive consulting and training in culturally relevant and anti-bias education. Mary Pat has been associated with Crossroads for more than ten years.
Marilyn Miller is the Executive Director of the Lutheran Human Relations Association (LHRA), a national peace and justice organization founded 56 years ago. She is an educator/trainer who served as an adjunct faculty member at Concordia University (then College), Advisor and Program Director for the Multicultural Engineering Program at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and as Director of Youth and Congregational Ministries for LHRA. This work has spanned over 30 years. Marilyn is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin who has served locally and nationally in helping people to reach their full potential educationally and relationally. Her education preparation includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Education (K–8, Special Education) and a Master of Arts – Reading. Marilyn completed a Certification Program in Youth and Family Ministry and is working on coursework to become a pastor through the Theological Education for Emerging Ministries (TEEM) Program, both through Wartburg Theological Seminary.
Jo Ann Mundy is an organizer, facilitator and board member with ERAC/Ce (Eliminating Racism and Claiming/Celebrating Equality), a multicultural anti-racist collaborative working toward the institutionalization of racial justice in public and private institutions throughout southwest Michigan. She currently serves on the boards of Crossroads Anti-Racism Organizing and Training; and World Fare, a fair trade store in Three Rivers, Michigan committed to connecting our community to the world. As a founder mentor of the NIA Project, Jo Ann encourages the celebration of identity, purpose and sisterhood in adolescent women of color. Enjoying over 15 years of pastoral ministry, Jo Ann currently serves as a solo pastor of First Baptist Church of Three Rivers, Michigan. Jo Ann is a founding member of the Three Rivers Area Faith Community, an ecumenical and faith-based social justice network of churches where she completed her doctoral thesis in Sacred Action to Claim an Anti-Racist Identity in the Faith Community of Three Rivers Michigan. Jo Ann enjoys reading, music, her guitars and computers, and most of all the young people in her life.
Chuck Ruehle is a member of Coming Together Racine, a local community based antiracism organizing effort in Racine, WI. He is also the retired former Executive Co-Director of Crossroads Anti-Racism Organizing and Training. He continues to serve as a core organizer/trainer consultant with Crossroads. Since 1971 he has led ant-racism workshops and produced anti-racism organizing and training curriculum and resources. Chuck is a Lutheran Pastor and he served an urban parish, Reformation Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, from 1986 to 1995. He lives in Racine with his wife, Pastor Susan Ruehle. He is also an artist.
Sue is a core trainer and organizer. She has been organizing, teaching and training on issues of oppression for over 25 years. She has worked as a teacher, congregational pastor and assistant to the bishop. Currently she is serving as pastor to a Milwaukee area congregation. Along with her husband Chuck she has created anti-racism training resources. She is also a poet.
Victor M. Rodriguez is an educator, writer and trainer whose area of expertise is the racialization of Latino identity and its impact on political behavior. He is a sociologist, professor and former chair of the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at California University, Long Beach. He has written extensively, and his book Latino Politics in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class in the Mexican American and Puerto Rican Experience was published in 2005. His most recent publication is "The Racialization of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Asians, 1890’s-1930’s" in Eds. John N. Tsuchida, Juan M. Benitez and Dean S. Toji Education, Youth, Leadership and Labor: Asian Pacific American and Latino Perspectives, Long Beach, CA Center for Asian Pacific American Studies, 2007. He is a core trainer and former Board member of Crossroads.
The Reverend Michael P. Russell is the pastor of the Jubilee Faith Community of the ELCA in Country Club Hills, IL. Prior to that he did community organizing with Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. in Chicago’s West Englewood community. Michael has a Masters of Divinity from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and has completed post graduate studies at the Keller School of Business Management in Chicago IL. Michael is an anti-racism trainer and organizer with Crossroads. He co-authored “Lazarus at the Gate: Writings and Reflections on Poverty and Wealth”, a resource of the ELCA Poverty Ministries Networking program unit for Church in Society. Most importantly, he is a child of God, partner of Debra, and father to Justin, Chandra, and Evan. They are the center of his universe and inspiration for his anti-racism work.
Anne Stewart has worked as an Organizer-Trainer for Crossroads since 1992. She believes that her life experience has prepared her to focus on systemic racism. That experience includes: growing up in Mississippi, teaching high school English on Chicago’s South and West Sides, counseling individuals and couples, teaching and social work in an Early Childhood setting, and parenting and grandparenting African Americans.
Carmen Valenzuela is a coordinator of the Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative, a long-time partner with Crossroads. Born and raised in Arizona, she lived in Minneapolis for over 25 years and has recently returned home. She has a variety of management and training experience both in the corporate and nonprofit sectors. Active in MCARI since its inception in 1993, she has a long history of activism in ecumenical church and community organizations that have worked to cross the boundaries of gender, class and “race.” She is a 1995 graduate of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in New Brighton, Minnesota.
A native of Puerto Rico, Jessica is currently serving as Director of Master Level Recruitment and Admissions at McCormick Theological Seminary. An ordained minister, Jessica served for two years as National Religious Outreach Coordinator for Interfaith Worker Justice in Chicago, IL and has served the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in its ministry of Reconciliation. Jessica received her Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL and a Master of Divinity from Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, IN. Jessica identifies as a "1.5 Generation Queer Latina of Puerto Rican descent."
Joy Bailey is a core organizer and trainer for Crossroads. She also serves on Crossroads’ board as Co-Chair. Joy taught high school Spanish for six years in Kalamazoo, MI and is currently a part time instructor at Western Michigan University teaching courses on race and racism in education. Joy has been doing local anti-racism organizing at Immanuel Christian Reformed Church and in Kalamazoo Public Schools for over eight years. Although originally from North Dakota, Joy now lives with her husband, Ryan, in Kalamazoo, MI.
Willard Bass is the director/organizer of the Institute for Dismantling Racism. He is active as a Crossroads organizer/ trainer apprentice and currently serves of the Board of Directors as Treasurer. Bass spent a number of years with the RJR Packaging Company before becoming manager/partner of Bass and Jones Construction, LLC. He is the Assistant Pastor of Outreach, Green Street United Methodist Church, Winston-Salem, NC. He is currently engaged in a broad range of civic and church activities, all focused in various ways on building and enhancing community and dismantling racism. Willard has been married to Shirley Lewis Bass for more than 31 years. They have three children who are making vocations in medicine and industry.
Derrick serves has served as the Co-Chair of the Anti-Racism Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago 3 years. Derrick is the Training Manager at the Chicago law firm of Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg in Chicago, Illinois, and is a graduate student and teaching assistant in English Composition at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Derrick also served as a broadcaster and journalist in the United States Navy where he served for 8 years on ships in Asia and the Pacific.
Bill Gardiner currently works as an anti-racism consultant in the Unitarian Universalist Association. He is also a member of the Board of Crossroads Anti-Racism Organizing and Training. Bill was the Director for Anti-racism and Social Justice Empowerment Programs in the Department for Faith in Action at the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston, Massachusetts from 1990 till 2004. Before that, Bill served as a parish minister in Washington, DC; Nashville, Tennessee; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Rama is an assistant professor in the Department of Organization Learning and Development at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. She started her career in market research and international marketing strategy at AT&T. She then shifted her efforts to organizational development, and since 1994 has been a consultant to organizations in leadership and team development, employee communication and management consulting. She has consulted with many non-governmental organizations and Fortune 100 firms. Rama is passionate about progressive politics, dismantling racism and women’s’ lives and health.
Art has lived and worked as a social worker and community organizer in multi-cultural settings for over 30 years. For 22 years he directed the Kalamazoo Deacons’ Conference, a charitable organization in Kalamazoo’s Northside Neighborhood. Since 1994, Art has joined with others who seek to support racial justice and systemic transformation in Southwest Michigan and nationally. As an Anti-Racism Core Organizer/Trainer, he now works mostly with ERAC/CE, a regional multi-cultural anti-racism organizing group networking with inside organizers in dozens of institutions from all sectors of southwest Michigan communities. Art currently serves on the Board of Crossroads as Secretary. He enjoys composting, gardening, canning, cooking, and especially eating with family and friends.
Debra Leigh has been a professor at St. Cloud State University since 1989. She currently serves the university as the lead organizer for the Community Anti-Racism Education Initiative. Leigh works with the Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative as an anti-racism consultant. In St. Cloud, Leigh is a member of the Create CommUNITY Steering Committee. She is also serves on the Higher Education Anti-Racism Team (HEART) and is currently Co-Chair of Crossroads Anti-Racism Organizing and Training.
Jo Ann Mundy is an organizer, facilitator and board member with ERAC/Ce (Eliminating Racism and Claiming/Celebrating Equality), a multicultural anti-racist collaborative working toward the institutionalization of racial justice in public and private institutions throughout southwest Michigan. She currently serves on the boards of Crossroads Anti-Racism Organizing and Training; and World Fare, a fair trade store in Three Rivers, Michigan committed to connecting our community to the world. As a founder mentor of the NIA Project, Jo Ann encourages the celebration of identity, purpose and sisterhood in adolescent women of color. Enjoying over 15 years of pastoral ministry, Jo Ann currently serves as a solo pastor of First Baptist Church of Three Rivers, Michigan. Jo Ann is a founding member of the Three Rivers Area Faith Community, an ecumenical and faith-based social justice network of churches where she completed her doctoral thesis in Sacred Action to Claim an Anti-Racist Identity in the Faith Community of Three Rivers Michigan. Jo Ann enjoys reading, music, her guitars and computers, and most of all the young people in her life.
Born in Puerto Rico, I was raised and currently reside in Chicago. I am the proud husband of Victoria Alvarez, a civil engineer from Colombia, and father of Nicolás. An advocate of social justice, I became involved in antiracism work in 1989 as part of the initial antiracism ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. I currently serve as co-chair, organizer and trainer for the ELCA Metropolitan Chicago Synod Antiracism Team. My experiences in life and in this work have taught me that our world is broken by racism. It is this brokenness that denies each of us full participation and communion in the life of this planet. Through my work I have gained insight into social responsibility, justice and creativity as I seek to positively impact the evolution of our society and of our hopeful witness to the world. Trained as an interior architect, I currently work as a project analyst in the financial services industry. I am a graduate of the Harrington College of Design in Chicago where I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Interior Architecture. I also hold a Master of Management degree from North Park University in Chicago. In my spare time I enjoy reading comic books, studying baseball history and watching television.
Joseph Barndt is an educator, trainer and organizer in the field of racial justice, particularly in the area of understanding and combating white racism. For more than 40 years, his work has focused on dismantling racism and translating the understanding of community organizing into organizing within institutions for transformation and change. Joe is the co-founder and Executive Director Emeritus of Crossroads, and he has written a number of books and articles on racism and race relations, including Understanding & Dismantling Racism: the Twenty-first Century Challenge to White America (2007). He is a retired Lutheran pastor and has served parishes and worked in community and institutional organizing in Tucson, Arizona; Oakland, California; The Bronx in New York City; and Chicago, Illinois. He currently resides in Watsonville, CA and continues writing, training and organizing to dismantle racism.
