Spring Peace Week – Keynote Conversation: The Sum of Us

Date and Time

Mar 26, 2021 6:00 pm

Location

The Sum of Us: A Critical Conversation with Heather McGhee and Dr. Gail Christopher

Join us for this moderated critical conversation, Heather McGhee and Dr. Gail Christopher will discuss the cost of racism and its consequences, and the ways in which it serves as the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. McGhee and Dr. Gail Christopher will also discuss the way forward for America and the national movement to create a US Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT). Prof. Charles L. Chavis, Jr. (George Mason University) and Andy Shallal (CEO & Founder, Busboys and Poets) will moderate this powerful conversation.

More about the speakers:

Heather McGhee an award winning American political commentator and strategist and author of the NYT bestselling book, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone” She is the chair of the board of Color of Change, the country’s largest online racial justice organization, and volunteers for numerous other boards in the fields of philanthropy and social justice.

Dr. Gail C. Christopher is an award-winning change agent and architect of the Truth Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) effort for America. She is the former Senior Advisor and Vice President of the W K Kellogg Foundation. Currently she serves as the Executive Director of the National Collaborative for Health Equity and a Senior Scholar with George Mason University, Center for Well-Being.

This event is being organized by the John Mitchell, Jr. Program for History, Justice, and Race as part of Carter School Anti-Racism Peace Week and is co-sponsored by Busboys and Poets