Anna Blackshaw is the co-creator of the Rooting in and Raising Up workshop series at Red Lotus Consulting. She is a white organizer, educator, writer and longtime public-policy advocate on issues of racial, gender, and economic justice. She leads workshops on whiteness, race-conscious parenting, and racial justice, including at the Challenging White Supremacy Conference and the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education. 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/or 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 a founder of the SURJ Bay Area 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.
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, a book about South African teenagers in post-apartheid South Africa, which was selected as a Notable Children’s Book by the American Library Association and an honor book for the Jane Addams Book Award.
Based in Oakland, Anna is the former Legislative Director for the Oakland Institute, Director of Public Citizen’s California Office, and a long time legislative consultant to the late progressive icon Senator Tom Hayden. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Just Foreign Policy.
To set up a consultation with Anna, or a joint consultation with Anna and S.Rae, please click here.
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 a founder of the SURJ Bay Area 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.
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, a book about South African teenagers in post-apartheid South Africa, which was selected as a Notable Children’s Book by the American Library Association and an honor book for the Jane Addams Book Award.
Based in Oakland, Anna is the former Legislative Director for the Oakland Institute, Director of Public Citizen’s California Office, and a long time legislative consultant to the late progressive icon Senator Tom Hayden. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Just Foreign Policy.
To set up a consultation with Anna, or a joint consultation with Anna and S.Rae, please click here.
