Ilsa M. Govan
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Ilsa M. Govan

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Ilsa believes we stifle children’s innate sense of justice when we tell them, “Life’s not fair.” As a child, she questioned why girls were supposed to like pink and boys like blue, why her parent’s LGBTQIA+ were targets of hate crimes, and why her Black neighbors were evicted from the apartment next door. Growing up working class, she wondered how come Colin got the 64 pack of crayons with the sharpener and she had to settle for 12 colors (and that stealing his would lead to shame in front of the whole 1st grade class). Later in life, this led to a deep examination of her own identity as queer, White cis-gender woman. Ilsa has been lucky enough to find others with this same passion for social justice and partner in writing two books. The first, co-authored with Dr. Caprice D. Hollins, is a guide for leading the necessary and difficult conversations they have been practicing as Co-Founders of Cultures Connecting since 2008: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Strategies for Facilitating Conversations on Race. What’s Up with White Women? Unpacking Sexism and White Privilege in Pursuit of Racial Justice, co-authored with Tilman Smith, invites other White women to join them in looking at their stories of assimilation, resistance, and justice-centered leadership.
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