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Talking with Young Kids About Race

Talking to young children about race is never easy, It is however essential in our increasingly diverse society. Join us as we discuss how to address issues of race in our families.

For the adults, a psychologist will discuss issues of child development and world view so parents can learn how to approach the complex issue of race in helpful and understandable ways for young children. Artist, performer, and transracial adoptee Chad Goller-Sojourner will share from his life experiences what growing up black in a white family was like and how race has played a role in his life.

For the kids, we will have an age and developmentally appropriate program for preschool age kids that will run concurrently with the program for adults.

This event is co-sponsored by Columbia City Church of Hope and The Well.

Presenters: Goller-Sojourner is a Seattle-based writer, storyteller, solo-performer and recipient of a distinguished Washington State Arts Commission Performing Arts Fellowship. Most recently he served as the 2013 Ohio University Glidden Visiting Professor, where his work focused on the social, political and historical dimensions of multi-identity construction and intersectionality. In 2011 he was awarded both an Artist Trust Grant and Creative Artist Residency to further develop his sophomore solo show: Riding in Cars with Black People & Other Newly Dangerous Acts: A Memoir in Vanishing Whiteness. In 2009 he launched a national college tour of his groundbreaking and crushingly honest inaugural solo show entitled: Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy, which debuted July 2008, was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and has most recently been expanded into a written memoir.