About the Event
Not all ancestors lived honorable lives. We see this in intergenerational traumas, but what does it mean to reconcile this truth with our (un)learning processes? This virtual conversation facilitated by writer and cultural organizer Veronica Agard uses intergenerational compassion as a lens to acknowledge complex ancestries and create a path forward.
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There is a suggested $10 donation for this event, but no one will be turned away. This event is open to all humans, including peers, clinicians, people with lived experience of trauma and oppression, educators, and helpers of all kinds. Automated closed captioning will be provided, and the event will be recorded and shared with all registrants.
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About Ancestors in Training
Ancestors in Training (AIT) is a living project and lived experience that centers sacred traditions, new technologies, and intergenerational healing. Evolving with the times, AIT as a praxis examines how to apply the lessons of the past as a means to shape a better present and future for those that come after us. Through inquiry-based creative processes, critical race and media theories, and archival memory - the educational project allows all those who enter to leave with a better sense of self and how they relate to the world.
Facilitator
Photographer: Carlita Lopez, @carlitaz_way
Veronica Agard (she/her) is a writer and cultural organizer at the intersections of Black identity, wellness, representation, and culture. Of Afro-Caribbean, African-American and Indigenous descent, she experiments with creative healing modalities and puts theories learned into practice. In addition to bylines at Redefining Our Womanhood, Black Girl Magik, Life as Ceremony and Black and Well; Veronica has brought Ancestors in Training to the Sadie Nash Leadership Project, El Museo del Barrio, Ethel's Club, Mayday Space, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, to name a few. She graduated magna cum laude from CUNY City College in 2014 and is pursuing a master of social work degree from Fordham University.