Transforming yourself

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

ARCC has taken its anti-racism process and developed an experience to accelerate your journey to becoming an anti-racist. Dates and a link to register will be coming to this page soon.

Our vision is to build a racism-free world, and our mission is to provide inspiration, education, and support for you to transform, practice, and spread anti-racism and anti-hatred. Through this program, we hope to expand your worldview so you can gain new perspective on topics like Juneteenth, workplace racism, heritage months, and microaggressions. This begins with our three-step process for transforming yourself into an anti-racist:

Erasing your ignorance about racism
Educating yourself about anti-racism
Building the character and confidence to stand up, speak out, and take action to spread anti- racism and make positive change happen

From those steps, we've created a course-based educational experience you can use to jump-start and sustain your personal transformation to anti-racism. You're invited to join an upcoming cohort!

The course includes reading and discussing the publications listed below.

A black and white photo of martin luther king, jr.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

March Trilogy

The Color of Law

How To Be an Antiracist

Racial Healing Handbook

Just Action

Video transcript

Sadie N.: ARCC’s personal transformation education experience has allowed me to become the best anti-racist advocate I can be by allowing me to understand how to meet people where they’re at in order to allow them to achieve the most they can on their anti-racist journey.

Kayla G.: One thing I really appreciated in ARCC’s personal transformation experience were the conversations we had together as a group. Because of this I gained a lot of perspective from listening to other people’s experiences and now I have a much deeper understanding of the topics we were educated about thanks to the course.

Sam C.: To say ARCC’s personal transformation series was impactful would be an understatement. It’s been amazing in every way. What really stood out were our group discussions, they were challenging, honest, and exactly what I needed to reflect on my own biases. We laid a trail to become truly anti-racist, from recognizing privilege to actively dismantling racism in our everyday lives. Each of our topics was crucial and it’s really made me rethink not just what I believe but how I act and that’s been incredibly powerful.

Selma U.: What I found really beautiful about the personal transformation process was the instructor’s and how excited they were to teach us. Especially, these folks that came from oftentimes corporate America or areas of the country where they wouldn’t have learned about anti-racism, took up the charge in 2020 after they saw the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and so many more. And felt drawn to action and want to continue making this action while they still work in corporate America for example. It shows the dedication and the future and the direction our country is going and that is very bright and more inclusive. And then it’s really exciting.

Ava K.: Hi, I’m Ava. One thing I learned and gained from my experience here at ARCC is probably the fact that racism is such a heavy, complex topic and even if you may think you know everything about racism, you probably might learn something new that you didn't know before, and I know I have. And I hope to carry on everything I learned here at ARCC into the future. Thank you.

ARCC's personal transformation course

During this course we discuss subjects like white privilege, structural racism, and identity and race. In these sessions, we aim to teach you to erase your ignorance about racism, learn about anti-racism, and build the character and confidence to stand up, speak out, and take action to spread anti-racism and make positive change happen. Watch this video to hear from some individuals who completed the course!