2025 Anti-Racism Training Schedule
All anti-racism trainings are from 9 am to noon on Zoom.
Fee: $20. Scholarships are available, especially for postulants and candidates for ordination. Email [email protected].
The Anti-Racism Commission's anti-racism training series is facilitated by Lailah Dunbar-Keeys and designed to help participants understand the historic creation, preservation, and personal and institutional effects of a society built upon ideas of racial difference, which in turn support an unjust, racially based hierarchy.
The series repeats annually, and offers the Introduction to Systemic Racism training 3 times a year.
Anti-racism trainings are mandatory for clergy and open to all. Completion of all 5 trainings over 2 years meets the initial clergy requirement for anti-racism education.
September 27, 2025
Racism and Identity
This training explores the ways in which systemic racism informs our personal identity, behaviors and outcomes. We will develop a sociological understanding of the concepts colorblindness, colorism, cultural appropriation, unconscious bias, micro-aggressions, White fragility, and White privilege.
October 25, 2025
Racism and Active Accountability
This training will challenge us to think about the ways in which we can be actively accountable for identifying, resisting, and responding to the racism that shows up in our lives and the institutions in which we participate. We will explore various ways to act, resist and transform systemic racism to create anti-racist environments.
Anti-Racism Training Facilitator
Lailah Dunbar-Keeys, M.S. M.Ed.
Lailah Dunbar-Keeys, M.S., M.Ed. is a racial justice and spiritual activist who has dedicated her life and career to establishing the “Beloved Community,” a vision, promoted by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., of a world that is free from all forms of marginalization and oppression.
Her purpose-driven life has afforded her various career opportunities including twenty years as an adjunct assistant professor of sociology at Community College of Philadelphia; adjunct faculty in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University; Assistant Director of Academic Support at Philadelphia University (Jefferson); editor/reporter at the Philadelphia Tribune newspaper; racial justice consultant for the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, various other organizations and churches; and a licensed spiritual life coach.
Most recently, Lailah served as the Director of the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (ODEIB) at Cabrini University where through programs, faculty/staff/student trainings, curriculum integration, and policy changes, she was able to fulfill her purpose to create environments where all people feel seen, heard, and supported.
For more information, contact Lailah Dunbar-Keeys at [email protected], [email protected], or visit www.lailahdunbarkeeys.com.
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