Anna Blackshaw (she/her) is a white organizer, policy advocate and anti-racist educator and coach who has been working at the intersections of race, policy, and systems change for the last thirty years. She is the co-creator of the Rooting in and Raising Up and Sustaining the Awakening workshop series at Red Lotus Consulting.
Anna leads workshops on whiteness, race-conscious parenting, and embodied anti-racism. Her passion and priority is to help individuals and organizations sharpen their race analysis, deepen their racial competencies, and identify the levers of transformation in themselves and within the organizations they serve.
She is a founding member of Showing Up For Racial Justice Bay Area (SURJ), an organization that mobilizes white people to dismantle white supremacy as part of a multiracial and Black-led movement for justice. She is also the founder of its Youth and Families Committee, which supports parents, caregivers and educators in developing language and practice to interrupt at the root the ways we socialize children into white supremacy culture, and founder of its Policy Committee, which works to support the Movement for Black Lives policy platform.
Her writing and photography has been published in ColorLines, The Sun, Alternet, Common Dreams, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. She is also the co-author of No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from A New South Africa, which was an Honor Book for the Jane Addams Book Award.
Based in Oakland, California, Anna is the former Legislative Director for the Oakland Institute, Director of Public Citizen’s California Office, and a longtime legislative consultant to the late progressive icon Senator Tom Hayden.
Connect with Anna by email at: annabellablackshaw@gmail.com.
Anna leads workshops on whiteness, race-conscious parenting, and embodied anti-racism. Her passion and priority is to help individuals and organizations sharpen their race analysis, deepen their racial competencies, and identify the levers of transformation in themselves and within the organizations they serve.
She is a founding member of Showing Up For Racial Justice Bay Area (SURJ), an organization that mobilizes white people to dismantle white supremacy as part of a multiracial and Black-led movement for justice. She is also the founder of its Youth and Families Committee, which supports parents, caregivers and educators in developing language and practice to interrupt at the root the ways we socialize children into white supremacy culture, and founder of its Policy Committee, which works to support the Movement for Black Lives policy platform.
Her writing and photography has been published in ColorLines, The Sun, Alternet, Common Dreams, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. She is also the co-author of No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from A New South Africa, which was an Honor Book for the Jane Addams Book Award.
Based in Oakland, California, Anna is the former Legislative Director for the Oakland Institute, Director of Public Citizen’s California Office, and a longtime legislative consultant to the late progressive icon Senator Tom Hayden.
Connect with Anna by email at: annabellablackshaw@gmail.com.
