Liza Gleason
Liza Gleason has been an educator in the Bay Area for more than 25 years. She recently completed her Educational Doctorate at Mills College, where her research focused on white women teachers. Liza has taught in both public and independent schools at the elementary and middle school levels. She is passionate about the intersection of building inclusive schools and white educator identity development. Liza uses vulnerability, care, and emergent thinking to ground her work with educators. She currently coaches individual teachers and teaching teams on curriculum and instruction and facilitates dialogue groups for white-identifying educators. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, teenage son, and two rescue dogs, Sammy and Cali.
Current Workshops
Anti-Racist White Affinity Group
This two-day, in-person program will center collective dialogue, offering White educators the opportunity to reflect on and process how they are experiencing—emotionally and somatically—this rise in global, national, and local conflict. Participants will also consider the ways that white supremacy culture prevents us from breaking our silence and stepping into conflict with curiosity and humility. Participants will learn from one another through collective wisdom and will gain concrete strategies and frameworks to support their work moving forward.
Anti-Racist White Affinity Space Online Cohort
This 3-session, online cohort will center collective dialogue, offering White educators the opportunity to reflect on and process how they are experiencing—emotionally and somatically—this rise in global, national, and local conflict. Participants will also consider the ways that white supremacy culture prevents us from breaking our silence and stepping into conflict with curiosity and humility.
Articles & Resources
Article: What it Means to be White: We’ll Never Know if We Don’t Learn to Sit Deep Within It
The reasons we do anti-racist work together as white people are specific and purposeful. We learn together so that we can do some catching up without causing harm to our BIPOC colleagues, friends, and community members. We learn together so that we can take the risks and make the missteps that help us grow. We come together to focus on truth telling and healing, not performative behaviors that take us out of our bodies. We come together to build accountability partners so that we can resist the escape hatches together.