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League of Women Voters hot topics event on white privilege

Rianna Moore

The League of Women Voters of Chautauqua County will hold a Hot Topics Luncheon this Friday at the Clarion Hotel, Dunkirk. The topic is White Privilege. The speaker is Rianna Moore.

Across the US, increasing numbers of persons of “Caucasian” descent are discovering and exploring their White racial identity and what it means in 21st century America. People of Color in the US have always been aware of Whiteness and the difference it makes in their own lives but White People themselves are only recently waking up to the reality of their racial identity, beyond their ethnicity or the geographical and national origins of their parents, grandparents, and ancestors even farther back. “White Privilege” is an aspect of White racial identity that has received a lot of attention in the academy and in popular culture since it was first identified by Peggy McIntosh in the mid-1980s. This presentation will describe White Privilege as a cultural phenomenon and locate it in the contemporary context against the backdrop of U.S. race relations history. What is White Privilege, when and how did it become a thing, and why does it matter for Chautauqua County in 2018?

Rianna Moore, PhD, lectures and consults on topics related to diversity, inclusion, and social justice, with a focus on inequitable power dynamics in human systems; in particular racism, sexism, heterosexism, and exclusions of gender-fluid persons.

Dr. Moore has worked with client systems in the corporate, government, and higher education sectors. In the 1980s and 90s, she was Global Director of Organization Development & Diversity for Engineering & Manufacturing and a management development specialist for a Fortune 50 high-tech firm. She has conducted consulting projects and professional development programs in Italy, Russia, Germany, Scotland, Canada, and Nationalist China as well as throughout the US. Dr. Moore taught at universities in the northeastern US prior to her consulting career, including Norwich University and SUNY Fredonia.

Dr. Moore is a graduate of SUNY Fredonia (BA and MA in English) and Fredonia Central Schools. She holds the PhD in Human & Social Systems from the Fielding Graduate University. A professional member of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science (www.ntl.org), she is head of NTL’s Publishing Hub as well as a member of the Core Labs, Research & Writing, and Coaching Hubs. She staffs NTL’s signature Human Interaction experiential learning lab as well as the program that qualifies NTL members to staff the H.I. and other Core Labs. She also consults on customized project solutions for NTL’s client systems.

Recent publications include Journeys of Race, Color, & Culture: From Racial Inequality to Equity & Inclusion (2017), “Designing a Better Box for Gallese, Italy: Diversity-Inclusion and Social Power in a Global Context” (OD Practitioner, October 2016) and “Understanding and Using System Energy” (Practising Social Change, November 2011).

Those interested in attending the presentation only are welcome to come at 12:30 p.m.

For more information about the League of Women Voters of Chautauqua County, visit http://www.lwvchautauqua.org and follow the group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leagueofwomenvoterschautauqua/.

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