Our latest development team meeting has last Tuesday! And here is a brief update!
We began the meeting with an excercise led by Jessica Lopez Lyman. One person stood on a chair while another person sat behind the chair. Both people looked out at the room and described what they could see. Jessica then shared that the chair represents institutional racism, and asked us to reflect on that. We had some great sharing about institutional power and how for those of us who are "standing on the chair," it is hard for us to recognize our unearned privilege because don't always recognize that the chair is beneath us, we just see the world and think that what we see is the same as what everyone else sees. The exercise helped some of us remember that those who are oppressed by racism are seeing the world from behind huge obstacles, in our example, a chair.
Then, we got into updates. They included:
1. updates - they are coming in! National and local
2. food - our chef at the Carondelet is willing to try to make ethnic foods, and had experience cooking authentic Mexican food. Excellent!
3. money - scholarships and discounts are indeed available, and the process in informal and easy (basically a conversation with Jill and Jennifer)
4. marketing - we have been invited to table at De LaSalle and can investigate individual contacts at public schools to move into marketing
5. We did a little schedule clarification, then moved into larger groups.
This was out last meeting before pep and prep in June! Groups are emailing final lists of needed materials and plans before then.
Remember that you can register for POWER Summit at our website: http://www.csjstpaul.org/celeste_power_summmit_schedule.aspx
See you in June!
Peace,
Esther