Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.
In this particular segment, Robin Parker and Pamela Smith Chambers discuss the myth behind the belief that we are in a Post Racial America, white people and reverse racism, as well as whether or not people can honestly be color blind in our modern society. The Beyond Diversity Resource Center is a non-profit organization that focuses on racism and oppression across the country.
Bio: Robin Parker is the Executive Director of the Beyond Diversity Resource Center. Parker facilitates diversity training for individuals, businesses, educational institutions, human relations commissions, and police agencies; sponsors conferences on cultural diversity and community dialogue; and lectures extensively about the need for individual and community intervention in solving the problems of racism, bigotry, and prejudice.
Bio: Pamela Smith Chambers is the Training Director of the Beyond Diversity Resource Center. Prior to joining the Center, Chambers was the Supervising Program Development Specialist in the New Jersey Office of Bias Crime and Community Relations. Ms. Chambers also previously served as Director of Counseling and Education Services at the YWCA of Trenton. There she co-founded and implemented training in the Racial Justice Program in addition to directing the YWCA’s Sexual Assault Care Program and its Breast Cancer Awareness Program.
Intersections Radio is hosted by Dr. Eddie Moore Jr., founder of the White Privilege Conference (WPC), which is held annually in cities across the United States; and Daryl Miller, who works with the WPC and other programs of the Matrix Center. The WPC is an award-winning national diversity conference that serves as a yearly opportunity to examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege, white supremacy, and oppression, and works to dismantle systems of power, prejudice, and inequality. College students from around the country participate in the conference for academic credit.