VOLA Hosts RACED Co-Founders At Zoom Meeting Monday

VOLA Hosts RACED co-founders Monique Salhab and Kendra Toth on Zoom Monday. Courtesy/VOLA photo

VOLA News:

RACED co-founders Monique Salhab and Kendra Toth will speak during the Voices of Los Alamos (VOLA) virtual meeting 6:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28.

The meeting will be held through Zoom; the link to the meeting will be shared on the Voices of Los Alamos Facebook page and its mailing list prior to the meeting.

Founded in 2019, RACED (https://www.racedconsulting.com/), a cross-race, cisgender-queer team of facilitators, helps people to actively deconstruct organizational beliefs, practices, and policies that perpetuate racist behaviors beliefs through fostering healthy conflict in a nurturing environment.

Salhab and Toth will share how they’ve built personal and organizational practices to problematize white supremacy culture, not cultures of color. Their work illuminates the challenges to creating real, equitable and inclusive practices that nurture a diverse community.

A queer first generation American and Post 9-11 veteran, Salhab has advocated and worked with vulnerable communities – unhoused men and women, formerly incarcerated women and veterans struggling with PTSD, addiction and moral injury.

Additionally, she co-managed a veteran farm and conducted outreach to/with communities, educating/advocating others to grow food as another form of revolution. Salhab conducts trainings on NVDA, Safety and Community Defense, Bystander Intervention and Oppositional Strategy for Organizing. She is a Lifetime Member of Veterans For Peace (VFP) and served on the VFP National Board of Directors from 2015-2018.

Toth has more than 15 years of experience in classroom teaching, school leadership, facilitation, and one-on-one mentoring. She is a certified mediator and holds certification in Mindful Facilitation: Theory and Practice. She started her anti-racism journey when charged with fostering an Intercultural Education initiative as a school leader. Toth is a founding member of Women, Whiteness, and Leadership, which works to provide peer support for white women committed to anti-racist practices in their professional settings.

VOLA is a non-partisan, progressive advocacy group created as a way for Los Alamos residents to voice their concerns over current political events, both at the state and federal levels. VOLA strives to build community, educate, discuss, and enact action plans, with a focus on the following issues: social justice, women’s rights, human rights, education, environment, health care, gun safety and election reform.

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