Join activist and public intellectual, Dr. Loretta J. Ross in calling in the call out culture and in the fight against white supremacy. How can we dismantle hate if the methods we use replicate it?  Dr. Ross asks us to contemplate how we can instead intentionally and collectively shift our culture in order to build a united movement for human rights. She notes that in our well-intentioned activism we often use our radical consciousness to harm each other, while we are together hurting and healing, instead of coming together to fight a common oppressor. In this talk, Dr. Ross will discuss how Calling Out/Calling In is not another false binary but rather a continuum of accountability.

Dr. Ross is associate professor of the study of women and gender at Smith College, where she teaches courses on white supremacy, human rights, and calling in the call out culture.

She was the national coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective (2005-2012) and co-created the theory of reproductive justice. Ross was the national co-director of the March for Women’s Lives (April 25, 2004) in Washington, D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history at that time. She founded the National Center for Human Rights Education in Atlanta, Georgia, launched the Women of Color Program for the National Organization for Women, and was the national program director of the National Black Women’s Health Project. One of the first African American women to direct a rape crisis center, Ross was the third executive director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center.

This event is open to all Colorado College students, alumni, faculty, and staff and community members from the Colorado Springs area and beyond.