In her blog post of June 2, 2020, Marissa Colston, Westtown’s Dean of Diversity of Inclusion, listed “Tools to Help us Heal” after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. Colston reached out specifically to White people to do the following: “Continue to educate yourself. If these recent events are shocking to you and you don’t understand that they are part of an ongoing, predictable pattern of violence against people of color, take the time to continue to educate yourself on the history of systemic racism in this country.”
Ellen Abbott
Ellen Abbott has been at Westtown since 1993 and has served in a wide variety of roles. At the moment, she is teaching World Mythology to 11th and 12th-grade students and is the ninth grade class dean. She is also the author of the Watersmeet series: Watersmeet, The Centaur’s Daughter, and The Keeper.
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Learning and Growing in A White Affinity Space
By Ellen Abbott on Apr 21, 2021 10:59:48 AM