For our Racial Justice Group meeting on May 4th, Dr. Sharon Fennema led a workshop for our group. Dr. Fennema, who is a Curator and Storyteller with UCC's racial justice organization Join the Movement, proposed the following topics for this workshop:

• Building bystander intervention skills

• Abolition frameworks for racial justice

• Storytelling and racial justice

• Critical Race Theory and the Struggle over Cultural Knowledge and Memory

Sharon R. Fennema (she/her) is a facilitator, ritualist, activist, teacher, and scholar whose work lives at the intersections of critical race, postcolonial and gender theories and embodied spiritual practices which form identity and craft theology. She is passionate about empowering faith communities and changemakers to become the communities of justice and love we seek in the midst of the struggle for freedom, because she believes that each moment, from the most mundane committee meeting to the most profound direct action, can be an unbreaking of the kingdom of God.