My experience facilitating a dialogue on racism
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September 16, 2008
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Lynchburg, Virginia
Photo: Phillip Fortune
Kirsten Parker-Smith (middle) tries out keypad polling during a networking event at Everday Democracy's "Making Every Voice Matter" conference in Denver on June 12-14.
Kirsten Parker-Smith, a probation officer for the 24th District Court Service Unit in Lynchburg, Va., talks about her experience facilitating a dialogue this past spring in the city's "Many Voices-One Community" dialogue-to-change program on racism. Parker-Smith helped her dialogue group surface some uncomfortable conversations and led them through the process of identifying ways that the community could help tackle racism in Lynchburg. Her facilitation experience also gave her ideas on how to initiate conversations on racism with the young people she works with on an everyday basis.
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