Seeing the Forest: Antiracist Genealogy for Family Foundations

Six 2-hour sessions in early 2026

This 6-part online series engages participants in a journey of learning and action, using antiracist genealogy to explore each participant’s family history and relationship to money, with an eye toward moving money toward reparations.

Seeing the Forest is facilitated by We Are Finding Freedom cofounder Kari Points and Rev. LaShauna Austria, with guidance from philanthropic advisor Millie Brobston.

LaShauna Austria, Facilitator

LaShauna is the owner and principal operator of Seeds of Change Consulting and Kindred Seedlings Farm. She possesses a demonstrated record of collaborating with communities, both faith-based and secular, to address race, food justice, land ownership, and equity issues. Building on her experience in leadership, management, and administrative roles with for-profit and nonprofit organizations, she has devoted her current professional life to advancing racial equity and building better food systems locally and beyond.

Born and raised in Alamance County, NC, LaShauna is passionate about rural life, preserving farmland and natural resources, and Southern foodways. LaShauna is a community organizer, building strong relationships, collaborating with local organizations, cultivating the land and space at Kindred Seedlings Farm.

As an ordained minister, LaShauna looks for ways to engage faith communities in anti-racism work. LaShauna  serves as the Minister of Becoming and Belonging with the Land of the Sky, United Church of Christ, in Asheville, NC. In her work as the Minister of Becoming and Belonging, she preaches, leads reading  groups  and other groups online, and provides leadership for our Racial Justice and Reparations subgroup. In collaboration with the Culture Mill Lab, located in Saxapahaw NC, a vision was cast to reclaim the experience of multiracial fellowship and community action. Through this collaboration, Barn Church was born. Barn Church is a time for close community, food, lifting the voices of people of color, celebrating diversity across identities, and immersing whole selves into the beauty of creative arts.

Areas of Focus:  food systems, strategies for supporting the growth of farmers of color, organizational and leadership development, research, evaluation, feasibility studies, facilitation, conflict resolution and a range of services to individuals and organizations seeking to deepen and apply a racial equity analysis to their work and missions. 

Kari Points, Facilitator

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.