Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr.

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Diversity Education, Research & Consulting...Get Moore
Dr. Eddie Moore JrDr. Eddie Moore, Jr. has pursued and achieved success in academia, business, diversity, leadership and community service. In 1996, he started America & MOORE, LLC to provide comprehensive diversity, privilege and leadership trainings and workshops. Dr. Moore is recognized as one of the nation’s top motivational speakers and educators, especially for his work with students K-16. His interview with Wisconsin Public Radio won the 2015 Wisconsin Broadcasters Association's Best Interview in Medium Market Radio, 1st Place [http://www.wpr.org/shows/newsmakers-december-4-2014], and he is featured in the film “I’m not Racist...Am I?”

Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr., currently serves as Director of The Privilege Institute (TPI) and The National White Privilege Conference (WPC), both founded under his direction to provide opportunities and possibilities for research, publications, speaking and collaborations by those committed to true social and institutional change. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies at the University of Iowa and under his direction and inclusive relationship model the White Privilege Conference has become one of the top national and international conferences for participants who want to move beyond dialogue and into action around issues of diversity, power, privilege, and leadership.

In 2014 Dr. Moore founded The Privilege Institute, which engages people in research, education, action and leadership through workshops, conferences, publications and collaborative partnerships and relationships. The non-profit umbrella organization now includes not only the White Privilege Conference but also a fully on-line peer reviewed journal, “Understanding and Dismantling Privilege,” of which Dr. Moore is a founding editor, a Speakers Bureau for speaker connections, research opportunities for social justice and collaboration opportunities through outreach and service-learning. The Black Male Think Tank meets yearly at The White Privilege Conference and is committed to being a visible and community-based asset to the lives of young black males and providing them with the Action, Serving, Healing, Innovating, Educating, Loving and Developing that “affirms their existence, cultivates their excellence, supports their development, raises their consciousness and protects them from white supremacy and other forms of oppression.”*

Dr. Moore is co-editor of Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories and the forthcoming on-line workbook, The White Women’s Guide to Teaching Black Males. Future working publications include an autobiography and a guide to those who wish to pursue opportunities as diversity consultants. He is committed not only to his personal message of building relationships through Understanding, Respecting and Connecting but to also working with those committed to issues of social justice and inequity finding their voice in the fight

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Trainings, Keynotes, Research
“Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. is a prophetic visionary who is changing the world by helping us change how we relate and communicate with each other. Listen to him!”
John Igwebuike, Associate Professor & Associate Dean at Alcorn State University

Consulting

Creating change requires an individual who is not only committed to institutional change, but most importantly an individual committed to your change. Eddie Moore, Jr.'s works with organizations, businesses, communities, cities, institutions and schools to tailor his work to your needs. Working with organizations prior and post visit, Dr. Moore provides consulting training sessions that have been described as high energy, motivating, challenging and enlightening by participants of all ages, time and time again. His delivery style includes presentations and keynote speeches, classroom workshops, group and individual planning, cultural competency training, and organizational change. Dr. Moore works with organizations, not for organizations, as he is committed to building relationships, one change agent at a time.

Dr. Moore’s most requested Keynotes include:

Diversity, Privilege and Leadership: Are We Making Any Progress in the 21st Century
This interactive, informational, challenging and energetic session examines and explores issues of diversity, privilege, oppression and leadership across America. We all have an excellent opportunity to be positive role models, powerful decision makers, and effective agents of change, if we have the tools. Are we making any progress?

America Is Changing: Are You Ready?
This session challenges participants to examine their own biases, behaviors and belief systems. Additionally, they learn how to take action against hatred, bigotry, privilege and oppression. We need more leaders for social justice and equity across America. Do you have the skills and ability to lead?

The Challenges of Addiction: A Zero-Hero Story
Zero to Hero is the true-life story of Dr. Eddie Moore Jr. as he takes participants from his youth growing up facing the challenges of poverty, drugs and alcohol in a Florida “hood” to his role as a national leader, educator, consultant and motivational speaker. Honest, raw and challenging, participants will hear the story of how, despite a support system, the temptations of 'street life' left him facing addictions, scared, insecure, lost and out of control. But this is not the story of the “Zero.” This is the story of how when those around you believe in you, and can convince you to believe in yourself, then anything really is possible. For those who are facing life’s many, many challenges, this is a powerful story of redemption, forgiveness, hard, work, determination and Moore. The "Hero" is about excellence, achievement, capabilities, opportunities. The "Hero" means focus, attitude, community and excellence. These are some of the key things connected to leadership, building relationships, creating change, athletics, academics and Moore. This session is designed to leave participants enlightened and empowered to change the world, one person at a time.

Dr. Moore’s most requested Workshops include:

White Privilege: Getting in on the Conversations
This interactive, informational, challenging and energetic session examines and explores white privilege/oppression and the imperative that those promoting diversity must “get in on the conversations.” Participants will leave with the skills and knowledge necessary to begin addressing issues of white privilege/oppression individually and institutionally.

The N!gga(er) Word: Is There a Message in The Madness?
Who is allowed to say the N!igga (er) word? What do we do/say when N!gga (er) is said in our classrooms, hallways, practice fields, dinner table, cafeterias and resident halls? Ignoring the N!gga (er) word is not an option anymore – You can hear N!gga everywhere in the 21st century.

Participants are challenged to examine their personal/professional histories with N!gga (er), when and/or how they first heard N!gga (er) and pictures/feelings associated with the word. The workshop encourages all people, but specifically young people/future leaders, to consider the ramifications of casual or uniformed usage of a powerful and troublesome word.*

I Am George Zimmerman, Ferguson, Oklahoma University, Baltimore, Cleveland: Conversations about White Supremacy, White Privilege, and Oppression.
Participants examine these issues and other forms of oppression in this interactive session. Explore the recent surge of open racial violence and the use of media to spread and combat our thoughts, interactions, institutions, and cultural practices. Learn to engage in critical conversational tactics to deepen understanding and engagement, especially when viewpoints differ and tensions run high. Explore not only where we have been and where we are, but also how to prepare new insights, skills and tools to empower your activism as a role model and agent for social and institutional transformation.

Consulting Opportunities include:

Engaging Youth through Athletic Camps
Organizational/ Institutional Change
Diversity and Law Enforcement
Cultural Competency
Cultural Diversity and Teachers/Curriculum
International/Global Workplace: Preparing Corporations for Diversity
Sexual Harassment and Affirmative Action in the Workplace

Dr. Moore delivers an additional wide range of keynote addresses/workshops, including:

Black Males, Athletics, Academics and The New Achievement Gap
Diversity, Privilege and Multicultural Education: Are Teachers Ready?
Dr. Martin Luther King: Let’s Stop Dreaming!
Everybody Needs Diversity Skills and Cultural Confidence!
LEADer/ship: Is it Nurture or Nature (The Lion King)
(great for grades K-12)
Make It Happen: Motivating, Challenging and Inspiring Youth to ACTION!
The Mirror Exercise: Everyone Needs Confidence, Self-Esteem and Motivation
(great for grades K-12)
Youth and High Self-Esteem: What Matters Is On The Inside

*Please keep a look out for our educational video on The N!gga(er) Word: http://tinyurl.com/n-words2012

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21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge
created by Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. & Debby Irving



"You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi



Have you ever made a successful change in your life? Perhaps you wanted to exercise more, eat less, or change jobs? Think about the time and attention you dedicated to the process. A lot, right? Change is hard. Creating effective social justice habits, particularly those dealing with issues of power, privilege and leadership is like any lifestyle change. Setting our intentions and adjusting what we spend our time doing is essential. It’s all about building new habits. Sometimes the hardest part it just getting started. We think understanding white privilege is a powerful lens into racism’s complexities. The good news is, there’s an abundance of resources just waiting to empower you to be a more effective player in the quest for racial justice.

The 21-Day Power, Privilege (White) and Leadership Skill Building Challenge is our way to support your effort to build your racial justice muscle. It’s simple: For 21 days, you do an action to further your connection to Power, Privilege & Leadership concepts and networks. See some ideas below.

READ

booksBetween the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A memoir written as a series of letters to his son. Raw and powerful storytelling illuminating the black American experience.

Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today, by Jacqueline Battalora. An exploration of the moment in time when "white people," as a separate and distinct group of humanity, were invented through legislation and the enactment of laws.

Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories, by Eddie Moore, Marguerite W. Penick-Parks & Ali Michael (Editors), Paul C. Gorski.(forward). 15 stories about what is entailed in developing a white anti-racist identity.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander. An in-depth look at U.S. policies that target black men, rendingering the U.S. criminal justice system as a contemporary system of racial control.

Privilege, Power, and Difference, by Allan G. Johnson. An examination of systems of privilege and difference written in accessible, conversational language.

Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, by Debby Irving. A brutally honest and engaging memoir exploring the way white people are socialized not to see or understand racism in their own lives. Inclu des end-of-chapter questions for self-reflection.

What White Children Need to Know About Race, Article exploring how not talking about race during childhood can leave white adults ill-equipped and fearful to talk about it as adults. Tips for how to get and keep the conversation going with children and beyond.

WATCH

Race: The Power of an Illusion Award-winning three-part documentary about the biology, politics, social construction, and lived experience of race.

I Am NOT Black, You are NOT White Prince Ea compares using skin color as a way to judge a person to using the one drives as a way to judge a person.

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The Dog Whistle Politics of Race (Ian Haney Lopez with Bill Moyers) Part I and Part II Interview exploring how post civil rights era racialized language divides and deludes American citizens, effectively encouraging many to vote against their own interests.

Test Your Awareness: Do The Test Once people start to learn about white privilege and America’s systems of oppression through history, often they ask, “Why didn’t I see this sooner?” It’s easy to overlook what we’re not looking for. Ask yourself what you have been looking for? What consumes your attention?

Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream PBS film exploring wealth and power dynamics and examines why. Is the game rigged? Who notices? What makes addressing this issue as a society so fraught?

Unequal Opportunity Race Animated short illustrating the accumulated impact of white power and privilege.

What Would You Do? ABC’s popular show explores the impact of racial and gender bias and prejudice at a family friendly park. Before this video, would you have anticipated this differential treatment?

In The White Man's Image PBS documentary about the Indian boarding school movement designed to “kill the Indian and save the man.”

CONNECT

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Like Facebook Pages of organizations who post daily about issues of power and privilege (TheRoot, RaceForward, Upworthy, Got Privilege?, Teaching Tolerance, BLM, Youth Action Project, & Moore)

Google who’s who in your area by typing in ‘Racial Justice (name of city/town). A few emails and phone calls later, you’ll likely have an idea of how to get on the mailing of one or more organizations in your area who are addressing issues of power and privilege.

Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ) organizes, mobilizes, and educates white people: See website here.

White People Challenging Racism (WPCR) education and resources. See website here.

ENGAGE

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This can the hardest part for white people new to racial justice work. Engaging in racially mixed settings can trigger age-old power and privilege dynamics. The goal is to enter the process to learn and bridge knowledge gaps, not to take over, lead, and impose solutions.

Stay engaged even when your mind and body start sending you signals to shrink or walk away.

Ask clarifying questions.

Acknowledge what you don’t know.

Journal to process emotions such as shame and anger that can guide you to deeper self-awareness about how power and privilege impacts you.

Find a mentor within your own racial group to support and guide your growth.

ACT

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Take a course or workshop. This one goes hand in hand with ‘Connect’ above. The network of people you discover may point you to a class, or finding a class first may point you to a network.

Prepare yourself to interrupt racial jokes. Click here for some advice about how.

Organize a film night or book group with family, friends, colleagues, or neighbors to learn and discuss together the dynamics and realities of privilege and power.

Attend an event in your area where issues of power and privilege are being addressed. Universities and bookstores often host speakers who draw the network you’ll want to plug into to keep engaged and motivated.

STAY INSPIRED!

music
Create a playlist that fuels you. Just a few ideas are:

Get Up, Stand Up / Bob Marley

Give Your Hands to Struggle / Sweet Honey in the Rock

Where Is The Love / Black Eyed Peas

White Privilege / Mackelmore

White Privilege II / Macklemore

White Privilege 3 / Gyasi Ross

Super Rich Kids / Frank Ocean

Strength, Courage & Wisdom / India Arie

Whitey on the Moon / Gil Scott-Heron

Be Free / J Cole

The 10 Stop and Frisk Commandments / Jasiri X

Alexander Hamilton (sountrack) / Various Artists (sample here)

If It's Magic / Stevie Wonder

Same Love / Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Keep Your Head Up / Tupac

Try / Colbie Caillat

Living for the City / Stevie Wonder

Fight the Power / Public Enemy

People Get Ready / Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions



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USE THE PLANNING TOOL BELOW TO STAY ON TRACK

21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge

Tip: diversify your habits by doing some of each.

http://www.debbyirving.com/21-day-racial-equity-habit-building-challenge/