You are invited to participate in a hosted conversation with Resmaa Menakem, a social worker, healer, and leading voice on racial trauma in the United States. Resmaa will join us to discuss his framework for understanding racial trauma and his call for a different pathway for healing and systemic change.

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Resmaa Menakem, New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, is a visionary Justice Leadership coach, organizational strategist and master trainer. Resmaa is a leading voice in today’s conversation on racialized trauma. As a therapist, trauma specialist, and the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions, a leadership consultancy firm, Resmaa Menakem dedicates his expertise to coaching leaders through civil unrest, organizational change and community building. Resmaa helps leaders examine and begin to heal the trauma of racialization that thwarts emergence. He coaches leaders on how to do the embodied work to gain the cultural maturity to lead and build community within themselves, their groups, organizations and movements. Through a new framework for understanding the impact of intergenerational and racial trauma, Resmaa’s somatic abolitionism aims to rid stress and racial trauma from the body in order to interrupt and disrupt racism.