White Caucus Cohort

The White Caucus cohort was a cohort-based series for white people in an organizational position of power to take part in anti-oppression work in a way that’s useful rather than destructive or distracting. This caucus was targeted towards white individuals working in nonprofit and grassroots organizations who are in positions of power, such as:

Executive directors
Directors
Managers
Supervisors

The curriculum was informed by, and structurally mirrored, that of the Agents of Change cohort. Together, participants learned principles and gained practices centering anti-oppression, pro-Blackness, and antiracism to integrate in their respective organizations for long-lasting change.

Program topics included:

Implicit bias
The nonprofit industrial complex
Restructuring organizational norms
Acknowledging and distributing power

Sessions activities included:

Team-building
In-depth discussions
Weekly readings and homework
Unlearning norms and practices rooted in white supremacy within the nonprofit sector

White Caucus Cohort topics

Week 1: Orientation and Team-building
Week 2: Building Blocks: Racism, White Privilege, and Antiracism in Nonprofits
Week 3: Hidden Biases (Implicit Bias and Internalized Racial Superiority)
Week 4: White Supremacy Culture
Week 5: Working with Uncomfortable Emotions
Week 6: Mapping and Distributing Power
Week 7: Building Liberatory Organizational Cultures
Week 8: Beyond White Caucus Cohort and Un-graduation!