Coming Together Speaker Series: Dr. Robin DiAngelo

The Coming Together Speakers Series is a new lecture series at the Evergreen State College focused on addressing many of the problems and challenges that face the students, faculty and staff of color at the Evergreen State College. This is Dr. DiAngelo's second lecture in this series, focusing on White Fragility and how to approach the issues of systemic racism. Dr. Robin DiAngelo received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2004. She teaches courses in Multicultural Teaching, Intergroup Dialogue Facilitation, Cultural Diversity & Social Justice, and Anti-Racist Education. Her area of research is in Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, explicating how Whiteness is reproduced in everyday discourse. Dr. DiAngelo is particularly concerned with the challenges of an increasingly white teaching force and an increasingly diverse student population. She is a two-time winner of the Student’s Choice Award for Educator of the Year. Dr. Robin DiAngelo is currently serving as Director of Equity for Senior Services, Seattle/King County. She was appointed to co-design, develop and deliver the City of Seattle’s Race and Social Justice Initiative Anti-Racism training with Darlene Flynn. For more information regarding Dr. Robin DiAngelo please see the following resources: Web page: http://robindiangelo.com/ Publication from The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy - “White Fragility”: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/artic... The Good Men Project including publications: http://goodmenproject.com/author/robi... Linkedin:   / robin-dia.  .