Race and Raising Kids - Our New Community of Support for Caregivers!

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Melissa Giraud

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Jun 7, 2016, 7:37:04 AM6/7/16

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Hi Gamechangers,

I’m Melissa – I don’t post on here often, but I wanted to tell you all about a new project I’ve just launched with my partner, Andrew Grant Thomas. It’s called EmbraceRace. In a nutshell, it’s an effort to build community (both on and offline) around caregivers (parents, guardians, teachers, mentors) raising children in a race-conscious way. So far, we’ve built a presence on Medium, Facebook, and through our newsletter.

The community is organized to pursue three goals:

· Educating and informing adults about the pervasive impact of race in kids’ lives.

· Helping caregivers nurture resilient kids of color and racial literacy in all kids.

· Helping caring adults become effective racial equity advocates for kids.

We are starting this community of support because we need it, too! I am biracial and Andrew is black. We think about race a lot and even have related expertise. But as parents, we still struggle. We’re excited about co-creating the community we all need within and alongside a multiracial community of concerned adults. Join us!
How you can help us:

1.       Follow us on social media, and let your networks know about us. The EmbraceRace Facebook page is a good place to start.
2.       Sign up for our newsletter.
3.       Email us, and introduce yourself! Send to hu...@embracerace.org. We’re always interested in featuring new voices on our blog, and hopefully at some point on our podcast.

Thanks for taking a few minutes to read this email. There are probably a lot of parents on this listserv, and I bet all of you are grappling with the same issues that prompted Andrew and I to begin this undertaking. Our biggest goal is to make it easier for people to connect around this issues, and have these conversations in intentional, intelligent, compassionate ways.