Elizabeth Woodson

Elizabeth Woodson

Executive Director at Reckon With

TED Attendee
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
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About Elizabeth

Bio

Elizabeth is a 12th generation European American settler descended from people of Britton, Celtic and Germanic cultures. For a decade, Elizabeth has worked towards racial equity through philanthropy at the Emerson Collective, direct services at Columbus House and the Bridgeport Public Defenders, and public education at the Equal Justice Initiative where she contributed to the research, development and opening of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Informed by growing up in segregated Fairfield County, Connecticut and fighting sexual violence as student body president at Stanford University, Elizabeth is an experienced Theater of the Oppressed facilitator, community organizer, researcher, and entrepreneur (Mayfield Fellow 2013). Elizabeth lives on unceded Maskoke territory (Montgomery, Alabama).

Areas of expertise

Behavior Change, Calling In, Community Organizing, History of racial injustice, Racial repair, Root Culture, Theater of the Oppressed, Whiteness and antiracist organizing

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