Race relations: Taking genuine action against racism

"Its not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti racist” – Angela Davis.

How do educators navigate the messy imperfect world of Anti-Racism?

Take action against racism is one of the required actions in an education reconciliation action plan, but also one of the trickiest. How do educators take action that is age appropriate, respectful, and creates genuine change? From early childhood to tertiary, we’ll talk about how you can be an anti-racist educator and transform your education settings into safe and respectful places for all children and young people to learn and grow. 

Join us for a panel with experts on racism in education, and learn about how you can create safe and inclusive education settings. 

Panel members: 

Professor Naomi Priest

Dr Naomi Priest received her PhD in 2009 in population health at the University of Melbourne. She then completed a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) post-doctoral fellowship 2010-2014 also at the University of Melbourne with training in social epidemiology. In 2014-15 she was a Visiting Scientist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She was recently awarded a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (2017-2020) to continue her work on How does early life adversity “get under the skin” to influence lifelong health? – Identifying opportunities for prevention among Aboriginal and ethnic minority peoples. She is interested in socialisation processes among children from stigmatised and non-stigmatised groups, including development of racial/ethnic attitudes, bias, stereotypes and prejudice. Naomi's research has focused on initiatives to counter stigma, discrimination and bias and promote diversity and inclusion among individuals, organisations and across society.

Julie Bover 

Julie is a teacher with over 14 years experience in early childhood, family day care and primary school settings. She joined the Narragunnawali team after time in roles as an educator, business owner, classroom teacher and school leader. Julie believes that education is the primary tool for advancing reconciliation in Australia. She lives and works in Canberra on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country.

Shaun Childs

Shaun Childs is a proud Kokatha/Wirangu man whose family resides from the far west coast of South Australia. He currently works for Reconciliation SA as an Anti-racism project officer. His role involves facilitating and program management of Anti-racism programs. These include high schools and workplaces. His previous roles and background include Cultural Programs Coordinator at the Department for Infrastructure and Transport which included being an Aboriginal mentor, Cultural advisor, and RAP committee member. Prior to this, I worked as a Sheriffs Officer at the district court of South Australia and has a trade as a mechanical service Plumber.

Join us on the 8th November from 3 - 5pm for this FREE webinar held via Zoom. Register to receive a link.