Shelly Tochluk is an educator, with a background in psychology, she has spent ten years as a researcher, counselor, and teacher in California’s public schools. She now trains teachers to work with Los Angeles’ diverse school population as a Professor in the Education Department at Mount Saint Mary’s University-Los Angeles. Shelly currently work with AWARE-LA (Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere-Los Angeles). With this group, she co-created a workshop series that leads white people into a deeper understanding of their personal relationship to race, white privilege, and systemic racism.
Resources and links mentioned in this episode
- Kimmel, Michael. Healing from Hate: How Young Men Get Into—and Out of—Violent Extremism.
-Reveal News. Hate in the Homeland, https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/hate-in-the-homeland/
-Saslow,Eli. Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist.
-shellytochluk.com
-Tenold, Vegas. Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America.
-Tochluk, Shelly, and Christine Saxman. “Swastikas in the Bathroom: Connecting the Dots between White Supremacy, White Nationalism, the Alt-Right, and the Alt-Light.” Medium, https://medium.com/@shellytochluk/swastikas-in-the-bathroom-connecting-the-dots-between-white-supremacy-white-nationalism-the-dc5d6ec266f2
-Tochluk, Shelly. Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It. 2nd ed.
-usvshate.org
