Join Word Up for a workshop to understand the historical grounding for policy-based reparations; challenge the possibility of meaningful policy-based repair in a nation built on stolen land; and imagine methods of repair and wellbeing generation outside of the settler-colonial, capitalist construct. Leading the workshop will be Dr. Makini Chisolm-Straker, co-editor of The Historical Roots of Human Trafficking. All materials for this interactive workshop will be provided.

This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance.

In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees for this event must wear a mask inside.

Word Up Community Bookshop is located at 2113 Amsterdam Ave. (& 165th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 168th St and the A/C train to 163rd or 168th  St.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH is a policy-based reparations specialist, with a background in public health and domestic policy. A former White House Fellow and visiting professor of history at Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Dr. Chisolm-Straker’s work focuses on reparations to Black and Indigenous people in what is now the United States. By centering the populations that are the foundation of the nation’s wealth, Dr. Chisolm-Straker proposes structural changes that value and bring us toward communal abundance.