Work Group for Racial Equity September Discussion Group: Impact of ACEs and Racial Trauma on the People We Serve and Our Practice We will discuss the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Racial Trauma on our practice, our clients, and on ourselves as practitioners, and explore ways to enhance our approaches and interventions in […]
Work Group for Racial Equity October Discussion Group: New Worlds Rising: Focusing on the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Host: Virginia Seewaldt, PhD In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, the Work Group for Racial Equity is celebrating the Indigenous People of the Americas. We invite you to prepare for the discussion group by watching the […]
Work Group for Racial Equity November Discussion Group: Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates dialogue around the murder of Charlie Kirk: The Ubiquity of Whiteness Host: Chris Dolin In the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk, Bernie Sanders said that Charlie Kirk was "a very smart and effective communicator and organizer and someone unafraid to […]
Work Group for Racial Equity January Discussion Group: The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in 2026 As we will have just observed the holiday of Martin Luther King's birth, it's a good time to reflect on his legacy through the lens of recent events that have inspired fear, disgust, and desperation among many of […]
Work Group for Racial Equity February Discussion Group: Most of the Monsters Survived the Rising Sun: "Sinners" and the Impact of Historical, Cultural, and Generational Trauma on African Americans, Then and Now While many horror films function as allegories, Sinners operates as both a vampire narrative and a socio-cultural documentary. Most horror movies have the monsters die […]
Work Group for Racial Equity May Discussion Group: Unpacking Some of the Impact of Historical and Racial Trauma on Indigenous and African American Populations We’ll build on our prior discussion of Sinners by taking a deeper look at how historical trauma has shaped the lived experiences of two foundational U.S. populations—Indigenous and African American communities. […]
Work Group for Racial Equity June Discussion Group: How do we greet the 250th anniversary of our country's Declaration of Independence? Not just within the Trumpist moment, but in the long sweep of our history that has bent occasionally toward and frequently away from justice for the generations of Black people descended from those who […]
The EGPS Work Group for Racial Equity (WG4RE) invites you to join us for a year-end social evening on Friday, July 24 and a kickoff social evening on Friday, September 18. Both evenings, we will meet in the lobby of the Studio Museum in Harlem (144 West 125th St between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox Avenues) at 5:30pm. We […]
