Christy Tronnier I first learned about the power of organizing for racial justice during backyard potlucks on warm Southern spring nights, and later around kitchen tables when the weather turned cool. What at first seemed to me to be informal gatherings later revealed themselves to be the well-organized and powerful engine of queer and radical change-making, fueled by visionaries who were associated with groups like UBUNTU, SONG, Critical Resistance, SpiritHouse, Generative Somatics, dRworks, the Stone House, and other communities striving for collective liberation. I learned that the structure of sharing meals, childcare, and other resources reflects a liberatory praxis, and that community thrives in a context of collective care and mutual aid. I learned the value of an intersectional approach to organizing and that this approach necessitated that any white folx involved remain committed to the ongoing unlearning and resisting of our deep conditioning into a whiteness borne out of white supremacy culture. During those years, I also trained as a clinical social worker, earned a doctorate, built a clinical practice, and learned to teach. After 17 years in my first chosen home of Durham, NC, I embarked on another journey and found my way to the Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts, where I now live in the woods with my family. I am still grateful for, and guided by, those honeysuckle-scented Durham nights spent strategizing and laughing in equal measure. As a white, queer, mostly able-bodied, and middle class cis-being, I am deeply committed to a lifetime of unlearning and resisting whiteness, and I strive to center this commitment in my work as a social work clinician and educatorMeg Stein As a white, cis-female facilitator and trainer working in racial equity, I work often with fellow white women and within the arts. I am also a visual artist, working primarily in sculpture and social practice, as well as a lover and supporter of artists everywhere. As a member of Art Ain’t Innocent, a Durham, NC-based multiracial cross-class Southern arts visioning collective, I help generate productive conversations about how structures and assumptions within the arts sector perpetuate racial inequities. Through my community project Dirty White Matter, I invite others to examine whiteness and femininity while engaging in art-making, discussion and story-sharing. I have been a consultant in equity work with NC arts and social justice organizations and also a trainer in my work with the Racial Equity Institute in Greensboro, NC. With a background in mindfulness, I incorporate an embodied approach into my work, creating conversations and experiences that allow internal reflection and body-based awareness of how these racial inequities are living in our bodies. I greatly enjoy being in nature and spend as much time as I can hiking, backpacking, canoeing, camping and being out amongst the trees. I am proud to call Durham and North Carolina my home and am excited to invite more white women into this work.