Dot is a founding member and Executive Director of Race Conscious Dialogues, a nonprofit designed for participants to deepen awareness of identity, privilege, positionality to power and more, then integrate learning with everyday life. She is also focused on local work for reparations and the founding of Kinfolk CoLab, a physical space for community work and justice efforts to collaborate. As a young adult, Dot studied history at Tulane University, and went on to teach social studies in Chicago Public Schools. She holds a Master’s in Leadership Studies from the University of San Diego and is interested in how deconstructing whiteness works within the larger conversation of racial inequity. Today she resides with her family in Oak Park, IL and loves live music and being at the beach.
Listed skills include Collaborative Leadership, Nonprofit, Teaching, Facilitation, and 1 others.