Curse Breaking: Ancestral Storytelling to Get Free
Three 90-minute sessions: Wednesdays October 14 + 28, November 4 @ 12-1:30 PM ET
Sliding scale options available
How telling the stories of our white ancestors’ harms helps us open paths toward liberatory futures!
Are you at a loss to know your assignment in this political moment?
Are you longing for a community in which to deepen your anti-racist commitments and practice?
Are you ready to build toward a liberated future through ritual and land connection and your body?
If so, join myself and co-facilitators Nicole Cober Bauman and Lucy Waechter Webb in this three-session online series, as we explore through storytelling how CURSE BREAKING can be a potent form of resistance!
Kari Points
For more than 30 years, Kari has organized for collective liberation. Her content expertise is in racial, gender and economic justice; reproductive and sexual health, rights and justice; and bringing healing justice to social change work. Her technical expertise extends across workshop design and facilitation using Southern-fried somatics and participatory methodologies, leadership coaching, public policy advocacy, organizational development and evaluation, partnership and coalition advising, and qualitative research and writing.
Kari created and facilitates the project We Are Finding Freedom, an experiential, somatics-based workshop series that explores intersection of white womanhood and white supremacy and trains white women and genderqueers to address racism in white communities and show up constructively in people of color-led organizing. She is the board president of Showing Up for Racial Justice, a national c4 organization that mobilizes white people for justice.. Her latest initiative, Reckoning With Our Roots, coaches clients to explore their family history using a racial and economic justice lens.
Prior to becoming a consultant, Kari advised on policy advocacy for women’s and girls’ access to safe abortion care at Ipas. In that role, she created and oversaw programs and conducted in-country research to improve the conditions for abortion law reform in Malawi, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Kari also represented Ipas at the United Nations and led the organization’s thinking on building effective coalitions and partnerships.
Early in her career, Kari worked for a year in Harare, Zimbabwe, with Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, where she conducted a national campaign to improve LGBTQ access to primary and mental health care, designed and facilitated a series of cross-racial and cross-class dialogues, and partnered with South African organizations on LGBTQ health and human rights initiatives.
Kari holds a Masters in Public Policy with highest honors from Duke University, with a concentration in global women’s health policy, as well as a BA from Indiana University with highest honors in German Language and Literature and Cultural Anthropology.
