Understanding White Privilege and Relationships with Native People

In working towards right relationship, how does our understanding of our own race impact our work? What are our hidden assumptions about Native people and culture? How do we begin to unpack our relationship to white privilege and settler colonialism, to better
support Indigenous communities? In this engaging and transformative presentation,
Sofia Locklear will guide us in looking at these questions and more.

Sofia Locklear (Lumbee Tribe) was born and raised in Seattle, WA. She is currently a PhD candidate in sociology, focusing on social determinants of health and whiteness studies. She also works at the Seattle Indian Health Board, where she strives to engage in rigorous and dynamic research that is centered around community cultural values, needs, and ways of knowing as an effort to combat structural oppression.