FRANCES E. KENDALL, Ph.D.

Consultant for Organizational Change
Specializing in Issues of Diversity and White Privilege

It's 2010-a new year and a new decade. The time continues to fly by and late winter and early spring activities are picking up.

Currently Francie leads a white privilege dialogue group with teachers at an independent school in the Bay Area. The once-per month gathering started with the teachers reading, Understanding White Privilege, and discussing how privilege operates in the work they do. The group met throughout the fall and recently got together for their first meeting of the winter quarter. In the coming months, Francie will be giving keynote speeches and working with faculty, staff, students and senior leaders at college and universities across the country.

February

• Keynote address entitled "Starting with Ourselves:  Bringing Our Whole Selves to the Work We Do." at the Southeastern Conference on Cross-Cultural Issues in Counseling and Education.


• Working with groups at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

March

• Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio
• Miami University in Oxford, Ohio

April

• White Privilege Conference in LaCrosse, WI
  Francie will be leading an institute, and presenting one workshop
  and co-presenting a third.
• Institute: Preparing Our Organizations to Talk About White Privilege
We often want to jump right in to the conversation about white privilege but haven't stopped to think how people will respond. During this day-long institute we will examine three major questions in order to be better prepared:


• How do we assess whether our organization is ready for an in-depth conversation on white privilege?
• What do we, as change agents, need to know about our organization to help prepare its members to talk about white privilege?
• How do we build an on-going plan so that the initial conversation is not a one-time event?


• Cultural Humility Versus Cultural Competence:  Entering into Life-Long Learning and Self-Reflection


• I'm a Better Anti-Racist Than You:   White Women, Ego, and Humility
  co-presented with Lisa Albrecht , Associate Professor
  School of Social Work, University of Minnesota

• Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan

May

• Cal Student Orientation program at the University of California at Berkeley

June

• Francie will once again be presenting at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education.  Francie has been presenting at NCORE since the conference began--that's 23 years!  This year, she will be doing three presentations: a day and a half long institute and two major workshops. Stay Tuned for more details as conference time gets closer.
  • Well Meaning White People:  What Will Move Us to Act?
    This day and half-long institute is designed to explore how well-meaning white people participate in keeping an institution from making the changes necessary to become genuinely diverse and welcoming. People who would be horrified to be called "racist" often don't see it as their responsibility to work on "diversity" issues. We will identify strategies for enrolling this group of people to take action and to work with others to bring about lasting organizational change.
  
  
  • Knowing How and When to Use Our Privilege as a Tool to Become Better Allies
    Co-presenting with two other colleagues, Francie will be presenting important information about the key roles allies play in moving institutional equity and inclusion forward.
  
  
  • Becoming a Sophisticated Change Agent: You've Got to Know the Terrain
    One of the most important skills for a social change agent is the ability to read what is going on in the organization, to do so with increasing accuracy, and to know what to do with the information once it has been uncovered. In this workshop, we will look at:
    
    
    • How well do you really know your school and its readiness for change?
    • Who makes decisions and how and when are they made?
    • Who has real power and influence in the organization?
    • What are the formal rules and what are the informal ones? How are they shared and with whom?
    • If I don't know the answers to these questions, how can I find them out without letting everyone know I'm asking? And why is that important anyway?

Check this page periodically for more updates!