Angel has an incredible gift, she easily and what appears to be effortlessly, presents herself in a way you can and want to connect too. She shares related stories of her lived experience, as mother, as a college student, as a friend… and then she pulls back the curtain and share her experiences as Black woman. As she shares these stories, she reveals the impacts of the privilege of skin tone. I have been working on myself as a white advocate for racial justice for years, but it wasn’t until I met Angel and listened to her story telling and participated in her race, equity, diversity and inclusion trainings and workshops did I really open up to see the truths of systemic racism and the work I needed to do. She has set me on path of continual growth and for that I am forever in her debt.
R. Weinsteiger