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We Are Finding Freedom: White Women+ Taking on Our Own White Supremacy

In-person in Phippsburg, Maine
November 7-9, 2025
Sliding scale $0-500

Hosted by We Are Finding Freedom and supported by by Maine Environmental Education Association and Momentum Conservation

About the Workshop


Finding Freedom is a workshop that deepens our individual and collective understanding of how we as white women and gender expansive people are complicit with white supremacy, how we can make changes to live more deeply and consistently into our racial justice commitments, and how we can move ourselves and other people in our networks to join the fight for racial, economic and gender justice right now.

The workshop includes class analysis, historical and contemporary case studies, and self- and body-awareness tools. In Finding Freedom, the “how” is also the “what”–in addition to the content we share, participants regularly highlight the intentional community and lasting relationships that grow through the workshop. We practice confronting white supremacy together so we can practice fighting it in the world!

 

Core Questions

  • What is a “white woman” identity anyhow?

  • How are we as white women contributing to white supremacy? 

  • What keeps us from bringing our whole selves to ending structural racism?

  • What do we need to stay in this work for the long haul?

  • How can we move into action and convince other white women in our lives to do the same in our communities and at the ballot box?

 

Who is this workshop for?

 
All women and gender-nonconforming, non-binary and trans people, and all white and mixed-race folks, who are interested in exploring the intersection of white womanhood and white supremacy are welcome to join us. The categories of “white” or “woman” might not be exactly how you define yourself. This workshop may still be useful to you if you were socialized as a white female and/or you are perceived as one today. You might be interested in our FAQ here. 

This gathering will be appropriate for people new to Finding Freedom and past participants. The content will be mostly the same as the online cohorts we have hosted in the past, and we are thrilled to be offering an in-person weekend of togetherness, deepening relationships and shared learning. For questions about the workshop, please reach out to anna@meeassociation.org or lindy@momentumconservation.org. 

 

About the Weekend

This workshop will be a 3-day in-person retreat at Shortridge Coastal Center in Phippsburg, ME on November 7th through 9th. The space will be open in the mid-afternoon on Friday. Workshop content sessions are scheduled for the following dates and times, and all are required for workshop participation:

  • Friday, Nov. 7, 4pm – 8pm

  • Saturday, Nov. 8, 9am – 5pm

  • Sunday, Nov. 9, 9am – 12pm

The days will be full of learning, shared meals and community. Please note that breakfasts and Saturday dinner are not included in the timeframes listed above and are optional, but included in your weekend registration fees. We also plan to be spacious with our community gathering, building in times for breaks, conversation, and fun! If you have any questions about the timing of the workshop, please reach out to anna@meeassociation.org or lindy@momentumconservation.org.

There will be 30 participants maximum for this workshop and there is a limited number of bunk-style rooms available for participants traveling from afar and interested in staying the night. The pricing for this weekend is all-inclusive, with one flat fee for the workshop, lodging, and all meals for the weekend. We are planning to accommodate a variety of dietary restrictions and needs, and you are welcome to bring your own food. 

 

Registration Cost and Sliding Scale Fees


Participation costs will be on a sliding scale, ranging from $500-$100 with a free rate available. Please use the following resource to choose which registration fee is right for you: https://www.wearefindingfreedom.org/workshop-pricing-options. 

Registration Fees: redistribution rate: $500, full rate: $250, working-class rate: $100, free rate. 

All costs for the workshop (food, site fee, facilitation, etc.) are covered in these price options.

We want to share that the true cost of attending the workshop weekend is around $1,200 per person.  Someone is investing in you being a part of this, and we are all working hard to make sure we can come to the table together to connect, learn, and grow. The rates below are heavily subsidized by Maine Environmental Education Association, Momentum Conservation, and generous donors who support the anti-racism work being done by our organizations. Please consider this as you choose which rate is right for you.  

About the Facilitators

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  • I am a social worker and liberation practitioner focused on bringing people together to engage in profound unlearning and growth by generating an understanding of systemic patterns, challenging ingrained perspectives, and enabling new responses to complex challenges. Right now, this practice involves facilitating group processes with We Are Finding Freedom, Steps to Unlearning, the Racial Equity Consciousness Institute, and the International Bateson Institute. I am also a collaborator and coach with Reckon With and the executive director of the Cancer and Environment Network. 

    My love for our planet runs as deep as my love for the people who reside on it. I was born from 6+ generations of farmers into a working-class household with Western European settler ancestry. I grew up in the cornfields of Iowa, and raised my children in the coastal plains of the northeast, the southwestern Sonoran Desert, and on the beaches of California and Florida. I have now settled, perhaps, on Iroquois land amongst the forests and foothills of Western Pennsylvania, where I learn, hike, parent, practice letting go, notice what emerges, write, befriend trees, and strive to heal racialized trauma in myself, my family, and my community.

  • For me, racial justice work is about showing up for the people I love and answering a deep call to engage with the legacy of white feminism. After several years in academia, I was fired for championing a student mural of Assata Shakur in 2015; since then I’ve worked in youth housing, social services, K12 neighborhood organizing, and organizational consulting. I currently manage a research engagement program for a cancer clinical trials network. 

    I’ve been involved in local and national SURJ and other community organizing and written several essays about intersectionality, white feminism and white womanhood. I’ve lived in Pennsylvania & the Rust Belt, the upper Midwest and the Bible Belt Mid-South, and this multiregional experience informs my perspective. I bring curiosity, experimental energy, somatic practice, playlists, and a recovering academic vibe (think: sweeping historical summaries, but with citations) to my workshops. 

    I’m middle-aged, fat,  queer, and chronically ill, with Western European settler ancestry and middle/ruling class family history. I live on Dakota land in Minneapolis, where I do pottery,  binge watch, take walks, see live music, and spoil my nephews near and far. 

Resources

Crowd-Sourced Resources on Shifting Culture

These resources are compiled from our Beyond Statements Calls, contributions from our audiences, and other recommended sources. Access them here or in our resource library

Individual Learning Journey

A curated list of resources around key themes for individuals to explore in their equity journey.

Beyond Statements Calls

MEEA has hosted our Beyond Statements Calls for three years, with the first happening back in June of 2020. We created these to share our resources, our journey, and provide space for connection, and to support participants in growing in their own practices and push their organizations to actualize change in their practices and policies. Over these years, hundreds of folks came to the calls, along with a few folks who have been with us the entire way.

We brought these calls in when we felt like they were needed to help bridge the gap in education around DEIJ in the environmental education and conservation sector in Maine. In August of 2023, we decided to close out these calls to continue on our own journey and invest more time and resources into furthering our organizational practices and internal processes. We’ve enjoyed getting to know so many of you, appreciate your care, curiosity and vulnerability and cherish the time we’ve spent together.  We are excited to stay connected with you in different ways in the future.

What were the Beyond Statements Calls?

The Beyond Statements Calls are hosted for individuals and organizations to practice and learn new ways of being in relationship with each other and their organizations. This work is focused on creating new norms in the pursuit of thriving and connected communities and cultures. Beyond Statements Calls are more than DEIJ “work” and instead take a more holistic approach to systems change.

What did they cover?

These calls featured some topics like building your own Ways of Being, Social Identity Mapping, Consensus Processes, and more, as well as revisiting some past topics related to culture building, and shared leadership.