All posts by Janelle Villiers

Janelle is a speaker and author of "Letting Go of Perfection: Embrace Excellence". As a writing consultant, she helps people get their DREAM book out of their heads and onto paper. She is also the former Asst. Program Director for the Joan H Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College.

Letting Go of Perfectionism: an Act of Antiracism – by Janelle Villiers

I’ve attended the Undoing Racism Workshop offered by The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, twice. I’ve gone on to facilitate several DEI workshops and I am also  the co-creator of an Intra-Professional Antiracism Dialogue and Discourse Series (IPADDS). While preparing for and facilitating all of these workshops and IPADDS events I was always reminded of a foundational tenant of the Undoing Racism Workshop and that is “Racism de-humanizes us all.” It doesn’t matter what race, Black, White and everything in between, we are all de-humanized by racism.

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