Events

Indaba Action Team invites you to

Fundamentals of Race
and Racism:
A Foundation for Unified Action

Join us for a powerful 2-day workshop to explore
race, racism, and actionable change.
Connect, learn and gain the tools to help build
an equitable future for our communities!

April 26 & 27, 2025 10 AM – 4 PM

In Madison, CT

To attend please complete the Registration Form.

For more information, registration, or if needed, to inquire about scholarships contact: indabaactionteam@gmail.com

Cost is $300 per person.

Sponsored by Indaba Action Team and 
presented by independent anti-racism trainers.
Don’t miss this special opportunity!

Presented by trainers Robin Mallison Alpern and Edie Grauer, MSW

Learn more about topics to be discussed in the Fundamentals of Race and Racism: A Foundation for Unified Action workshop.

Robin Mallison Alpern Robin Mallison Alpern is a white cisgender woman raised in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). She has a lifelong concern for racial justice and equity. She works with anti-racism organizations in her home community and among Quakers, including cross-racial groups and white caucus groups. Her anti-racist vision and practice have been informed and shaped by a multitude of mentors and leaders, both white and of color. 

Robin co-designed and co-leads a series of anti-racist workshops. Robin’s focus is on engaging white people in work for racial justice and equity. She couples compassion for white people’s humanity with an invitation to accountability and commitment to a life of anti-racist activism.

Areas of expertise include: countering white fragility with resilience; accountability and co-conspiracy; white women as architects of white supremacy; raising anti-racist children; replacing colorblindness with race consciousness; and costs of systemic racism for white people. 

Robin has co-presented workshops at the annual White Privilege Conference and has been a guest speaker at events and on podcasts. She was recruited by professors at Vassar College to help develop and teach an off-campus class for educators on How to Talk About Race with children. Her chapter about her anti-racist work with white women is published in RISE for Racial Justice: How to Talk About Race with Schools and Communities. 

Robin has raised four anti-racist white children who teach her every day how to make the world a better place to live. 

Edie Grauer, MSW, is an anti-racist practitioner who believes in justice, equity, and diversity, and that they are achieved through the dismantling of institutional and structural racism and intersecting oppressions. Edie is a seasoned non-profit executive, educator and change agent whose work is focused with an anti-racist lens on promoting empowerment, inclusion and self-determination of people who have been oppressed and disenfranchised. Edie taught at institutions of higher education in NJ and has developed and implemented training in community-based organizations.

She currently serves as Interim Executive Director and trainer with a anti-racism organization and serves on the Advisory Council at Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Edie has extensive experience in the areas of housing insecurity, criminal and juvenile ‘justice’, HIV/AIDS, child welfare, and substance abuse and addiction. Along with lived experience within her identities as a Black biracial lesbian and woman, she applies the expertise she’s developed throughout her career to promote more humanistic, anti-racist, equitable and inclusive ways of being — particularly within institutions and organizations.