Jane Elliott was a young teacher when she conducted the "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise.” It was conducted the mournful day after Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, and she wanted to teach her students what it meant to truly not judge others until you “walk a mile in his moccasins." Before there was the contemporary push for anti-racist curriculum, Jane Elliott was teaching other white teachers and her all white 3rd grade classroom in Iowa about race. 52 years after that initial exercise, she remains resolute in her position on the ignorance of racism. Jane Elliott is a teacher and diversity educator. She has taught about race internationally at numerous organizations; leading these conversations at: the US Department of Education, FBI, IBM, Exxon, IRS, General Electric, US Postal Service, AT&T, US Navy and more. She is currently a great-grandmother and still grants many interviews where she educates people on diversity and race.
