Forum: Showing Up For Racial Justice (Jessica Nifield)

Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national network of groups and individuals organizing White people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves White people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.

Jessica Nifield, a SURJ volunteer, will be speaking to the Humanist Community in Silicon Valley about white privilege, and will help us explore ways we can contribute to building a powerful multi-racial majority to challenge racism in all its forms.

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Jessica Nifield founded the Santa Cruz Area Chapter of SURJ in 2015 and held its first meeting in October of that year. She holds a J.D. with a concentration in International Law from U.C. Hastings, an M.Ed. from Peabody College (Vanderbilt), and a BA in Literature from U.C. Santa Cruz. She has worked as an in-house counsel at various Silicon Valley companies, and more recently spent five years teaching seventh-grade Writing at Pinewood School in Los Altos Hills before "taking early retirement" to raise her young twin daughters. Jessica now lives in the Santa Cruz area with her husband and kids.

For more information, visit the SURJ website: http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/about

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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