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Kina Reed: Divesting From Whiteness + Exploring Your Personal Ethnic Heritage

February 15, 2022 • Row House

Kina Reed is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practitioner. She is also the creator and curator behind the social media platforms, The AntiBlackness Reader Project and Divesting From Whiteness. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies and is a published researcher, conference presenter and public speaker. Her public advocacy is largely inspired by her academic research relating to social power and its intersections with race and gender identity constructions. She formerly held a dual faculty administrator appointment at Louisiana State University as the Director of Forensics.

In the conversion today, Kina shares the backstory to Divesting from Whiteness and the importance of finding one’s personal ethnic heritage story. Kina tells us about how 2016 was such a pivotal year for her, and offers her perspectives on the construction of whiteness in our world. We talk about her gift to herself - the gift of ancestry! - and about the pros and cons to online communities.

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