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A listening session with McKensie Mack, Anti-Racism Educator, Accountability Facilitator, Founder: #BoundaryWork and McKensie Mack Group (MMG)

$20. All sales directly benefit Affinity Community Services, an organization that has focused on improving the lives of Black LGBTQ+ people in Chicago's Southside since its inception in 1995

ABOUT THIS SESSION

McKensie holds over a decade of experience helping organizations, community groups, governing agencies, and healthcare organizations expand dialogues of equity across anti-racism, gender, class, disability, and LGBTQ+ rights.

Their firm, The McKensie Mack Group (MMG), has partnered with communities nationally and globally to develop equitable and anti-oppressive communications strategies and cultures that identify and dismantle social inequity while giving people the tools to better their lives and communities. McKensie's work has been featured in the NY Times, Refinery29, Chicago Tribune, BlockClub Chicago, El Pais, and The Guardian. On June 8, they became the newly appointed Executive Director of Affinity Community Services, a social justice organization on Chicago's Southside that helps to improve the lives of Black LGBTQ+ people with a particular emphasis on Black queer women. McKensie's body of work is defined by a singular core belief: We are all born worthy.

In this video, McKensie joins Campowerment to talk about the history of racism at summer camp, an industry and experience that has long been considered to be a place for people to find belonging, independence and the confidence to take on the world.

The wide-held perception is that summer camp DOES provide these things for all people, but, in reality, so many including Black and Brown communities, disabled folks, and families at or below the poverty line  — are often excluded from the summer camp experience.

In this 60-minute presentation, McKensie Mack will talk about what it means to dismantle systemic racism at summer camp. McKensie will invite YOU — the leaders, the administrators, the counselors, and the summer camp community — to step into a new iteration of camp culture that is centered in anti-racism, accountability, healing, and repair. It’s time to get us where we thought we were.