Join the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University for an interactive 90-minute webinar that will change the way you think about racial healing and community building. In honor of the Kellogg Foundation's National Day of Racial Healing on January 21st, 2025, renowned facilitator Susan M. Glisson will share an overview of The Welcome Table™, a community building process she uses for racial healing, reckoning, and repair. Her innovative approach utilizes storytelling and deep listening to foster authentic relationships that create a safe space for acknowledging and reconciling past race-related wounds and facilitate effective collective efforts that transform communities.
Glisson has completed reconciliation projects using The Welcome Table™ in communities with some of the most well-known histories of racial violence and in more than 25 states throughout the U.S. This webinar will introduce several Welcome Table best practices and participants will leave with an awareness of the powerful role storytelling can play in repairing the damage caused by racism and building more equitable communities.
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Speaker Bio
As the founding executive director of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, Susan M. Glisson guided multiracial groups in grappling with hard history to create a better, shared future in some of Mississippi's most notorious sites of racial violence. With lessons from that work, she assembled The Welcome Table™ community building process, and has used it in over twenty-five states, including most recently in the first reconciliation conversations between the enslaved and enslaver descendants at Arlington House, most well-known as the plantation of Robert E. Lee. Glisson now leads the Welcome Table Collaborative, a network of committed bridge-builders devoted to creating welcoming, equitable, and prosperous communities. In August, she began a partnership with the Carter Center to help build a movement for healing, reckoning, and repair in the former eleven Confederate states. She is based at The BIG We, a non-profit in Memphis, TN.