Intersectional Allyship for Racial Justice: White Allies
What does it mean for white people to be effective allies to people of color in our work for racial equity and collective liberation?
What does it mean for white people to be effective allies to people of color in our work for racial equity and collective liberation? Whitney Parnell, executive director and co-founder of Service Never Sleeps (SNS), will lead an intensive, fast-paced webinar series designed to explore how white folks use individual and collective areas of privilege to advance racial justice in an intersectional context. Using SNS’ CLAIM framework (Care, Learn, Act, Influence, Maintain), this workshop will explore what it means to adopt an allyship lifestyle as a white person.
Please note that this two-day workshop is only for individuals who identify as white.
If you seek to promote racial equity within your organization, this workshop will equip you with tools to be an active ally for racial justice through methods of naming white privilege, centering people of color, navigating intersectionality across identities, influencing others, and continuing your own self-work journey. You’ll leave this workshop committed to the Allyship lifestyle, and prepared to facilitate change in your own workspace.
Upcoming Workshop Dates and Cost
PRICING
Equity In The Center® is now using a tiered pricing model to better align with best practices among equity-focused organizations.
We ask that organizations purchasing tickets on behalf of their staff purchase tickets in the tier that aligns with your organizational budget and sector. And for individuals, we ask that people with greater privilege purchase tickets at the higher end, which will allow individuals with historically less access to wealth, disproportionately BIPOC folks, to pay the lower fees. EIC’s new tiered budget categories are based on Rockwood Leadership Institute‘s pricing model.
Partial scholarships are available / Training & Refund Policies
ACCESSIBILITY
- Our trainings are hosted on the Zoom video conferencing platform. You will need a computer or mobile device with a camera and microphone, and a quiet place to participate. A desktop computer (rather than cell phone or tablet) is ideal for accessing the training, as it allows the best ease of access to all the features in Zoom.
- Trainings are interactive and most include breakout discussions. Please come ready to participate! If this is not possible for you, accommodations can be made by direct messaging the EIC Zoom host at the start of the training.
- We offer auto-generated closed captions through Zoom. Captions can sometimes be a little glitchy or inaccurate.
Please reach out to workshops@equityinthecenter.org if you have accessibility needs or concerns.
Intersectional Allyship for Racial Justice: White Allies
September 2-3, 2025 from 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm ET
(12-3:30pm CT / 11am-2:30pm MT / 10am-1:30pm PT)
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Testimonials
I really appreciated this workshop. It’s helpful to have some guidance on assessing where we are as an organization and what goes into that assessment – even if there are limitations to self-assessment.
I searched long and deliberately and when I finally found the EIC AWW publication, it was exact and fully resonated with how I wanted to lead this work in this organization of which I am a new team member responsible for codifying systems that I wanted to ensure were steeped in equity.
This training helped us to better understand how the process can help non-profits and other agencies utilize the information to move forward.
I am eager to build a plan of action and budget for this work. Thanks so much for being bold, unapologetic and assuring as you brought this brilliant piece of work to life with and for us in these sessions.
Thank you! You did a great job! I feel very prepared to continue the conversation and act within my organization to advance race equity.
The course was excellent. I appreciated our facilitator and had a great discussion with my breakout group.
I adopted the EIC AWW publication for our annual retreat, so having that unpacked more was helpful, especially as other managers from my organization were along with me for the training to garner understanding at a deepened level.
This workshop introduced a clear framework for discussing the stages of moving to racial equity and the strategies and descriptions of how to do that.
Whitney Parnell
Whitney Parnell is a Black millennial activist, singer, and the Founder and CEO of Service Never Sleeps (SNS), a nonprofit that empowers individuals and communities to catalyze social justice through service and Allyship. She grew up between Latin America and West Africa as a Foreign Service child. At Washington University in St. Louis, Whitney doubled majored in English and Spanish, and minored in Communications and Journalism, during which she also embraced her calling as an activist. Whitney’s passion for service and social justice brought her to Washington, DC to serve with City Year, and then work in homeless services. Whitney is excited to create a movement of service and allies by igniting quick social change through mass civic engagement. Whitney is also a musician, and is releasing a social justice album called “What Will You Do,” with the goal of using empathy through song to ignite action. All album proceeds will go to Service Never Sleeps.